Example sentences of "[noun] come [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When the rags came out the mass of frizz made Sally screech with horror but when Louise had teased it a little with her Mason Pearson brush and a long tail comb Sally saw that the usually severe schoolgirlish cut had been transformed into a mop of pretty curls .
2 From a thousand voices came back the response : ‘ He is risen indeed , Alleluia ! ’
3 A horse came down the ramp in one bound , as if on wings , hit the concrete in a shower of sparks .
4 As she put down her cases a large shiny 1935 Armstrong Siddeley car came around a bend in the station drive and braked to a halt a short distance from her .
5 Mrs Singh came down the hall and opened the door , smiling .
6 ‘ The roof came off a woman 's house , and we all helped to save what we could .
7 Carrie sat around the bed with her mother and Fred chatting for a while , and it was not too long before they saw Joe Maitland coming down the ward .
8 The next day he starts at one car coming around a bend a little fast .
9 I could feel the different textures of wood , gravel and asphalt racing beneath my fingers as they came to rest on the road , and was terrified of a car coming up the cul-de-sac and smashing my hand .
10 with sort of a trail of red blood coming out the middle !
11 Light coming down the barrel is focussed by a small plastic lens onto the photo-diode and the device is sensitive enough to detect the changes in intensity of the picture .
12 Compare , for example : ( 16a ) I was glad to see the police car come around the corner .
13 ( 16b ) I was glad I saw the police car come around the corner .
14 ‘ The cars come down the bank there very quickly .
15 Normally see as people as the cars come out the lights change .
16 Slightly slower just so that the words come over a bit clearer yes , so so people can actually take in what you say okay .
17 Soon the words come off the subjects , the cone becomes a ‘ Kone ’ with its mass sliced through with layers of transparent plastic to make a more categorisable kinetic work .
18 So when you take your trolley back and clip it back up the pound comes out the front again .
19 The stewardess came down the aisle , a big-breasted young woman exuding a strong odour of perspiration .
20 A groan of real sympathy came down the line .
21 Victoria came up the room and seated herself on the couch , and without either greeting or preamble , she said , ‘ I 've had indigestion ever since Christmas Day .
22 Whereupon a sizeable squad of his fellow mandroids came around a corner and arrested me .
23 Meanwhile , as Ladbrokes shortened Nashwan 's odds for next Sunday 's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe from 2-1 to 7-4 with a run , French Glory came down a point to 7-1 amid rumours that Pat Eddery would switch to him from Khalid Abdullah 's other probable runner , Assatis .
24 Just needs a string of natives bearing head bundles and brollies to come up the footpath . ’
25 When the sun came out a rainbow formed and the air was so clear that each pine tree on the distant mountains , where usually the forest is a shadowy blur , stood out separate and distinct .
26 This time he could almost hear a patient sigh coming down the telephone .
27 Coffin heard feet coming down the staircase from the upper floor of the house .
28 If the silicon chips coming off a production line begin to fail , ordinary optical-microscope pictures of the minute circuitry can often help to sort out what is going wrong .
29 Not , says UI , to kowtow to any kind of preconditions SunSoft wants UI to meet for the firm to close on the desktop issue , but simply that USL does n't have resources to do all the development work coming down the line .
30 But over the succeeding weeks only a handful came out the rest chose to stay .
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