Example sentences of "[noun] come the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard came the next day , arriving at ten in the morning , when only Aunt Lilian was out of bed . |
| 2 | And there were fires , too , on the skyline above them , while on the wind came the mournful blast of a trumpet . |
| 3 | Major success for caddie Andy Prodger and Open champion Nick Faldo came the second time around . |
| 4 | Through hidden speakers came the rhythmic itch of cicadas . |
| 5 | Down came the huge paw . |
| 6 | During the following two months came the first reports of Baghdad 's retaliation at the frontier town of Halabjah , in PUK territory , where aircraft were said to have dropped bombs containing poison gas . |
| 7 | And when it daylight came the next day next morning you could hardly believe it you could hardly see Rousay for the foam that the gale kick up like a thick fog . |
| 8 | Kate Melville and Sue d'Argy Smith , whose daughters left the Church , as so many do , just before they became nubile , each took a hand and gave it a sharp pull , and over their heads came the long arms of Gordon the Bachelor , whose fingers stroked my hair , as countless other key personnel in the body of Christendom , South Wimbledon , stroked , shoved , pulled and all but carried me towards the stage on which I was supposed to pour out the secrets of my heart . |
| 9 | He sped away with them still on amber , narrowly avoiding a car coming the other way . |
| 10 | I used to be a hunt supporter , I used to be a hunt follower I gave up because I object to an attitude of a society of people that life is disposable having seen wounded fox hounds and that is the proper term having seen wounded fox hounds despatched with a revolver because they 've got a broken leg having charged full pelt across a public road and hit a motor car coming the other way and fortunately not injured the occupants of the motor car having seen the damage that a pack of hounds in full cry can do to land that they are not entitled to be upon because fox hounds ca n't read . |
| 11 | We 're going down this road and John was in front of me and just as John went past this wagon it pulled out and there was a car coming the other way . |
| 12 | just gon na have to you know be stopped there anyway this young lad after the first fast bend he went to overtake and I could see a car coming the other way and he was like er running along side this pick-up but it was like he could n't drop back and he could n't make it either |
| 13 | At its top the uterus is two inches across , and from each side come the fallopian tubes , themselves about 4½ inches in length , which serve as the channel down which the ovum travels from the ovaries , which are situated at the far end of the fallopian tubes . |
| 14 | do n't that put you off when drivers come the other way and you 've got right of way and they always go , and they go past |
| 15 | FROM THE home of the original Bambaataa the chieftain who led the last great Zulu revolt against white rule comes the African Hip Hop Movement . |
| 16 | With that decision came the near certainty , strenuously denied at the time , that Aden would grow into a fully fledged military base . |
| 17 | And out of the dark woods came the black man , leading his horse on one arm , and on the other a tall grey hound with the saddest face I have ever seen on any creature . |
| 18 | A year ago they would have replied in kind ; now from a hundred throats came the new cry : ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ with if anything even greater fervour . |
| 19 | With this purchase came the inevitable decision to ‘ get rid of the horses so long as a comfortable place could be found ’ . |
| 20 | After King of the Wild West came The Frozen North , but that was by no means such a success . |
| 21 | They bent double , and from the front prayer aisle came the distant cry : Allah hu-Akbar ! |
| 22 | In July came the first visit from the phantom night hound . |
| 23 | Du Camp records his friend 's dismay at the book 's historical misfortune : a year after publication came the Franco-Prussian war , and it seemed to Gustave that the invasion and the débâcle at Sedan would have provided a grand , public and irrebuttable conclusion to a novel which set out to trace the moral failure of a generation . |
| 24 | From the hut came the nauseating stench of human excrement . |
| 25 | Two Scots with Cambridge connections took up Faraday 's work at last , trying to put it into mathematical form rather than to fit the discoveries into an existing theory ; and through their work came the great flowering of classical physics . |
| 26 | Flashing through the birch wood came the white Mercedes-Benz , from which he leapt in his greatcoat and then dashed across the yard yelling out orders . |
| 27 | From outside the window came the shrill piping sound of the juniors playing netball . |
| 28 | With Korea came the added fear that America could become involved in Asian affairs to the detriment of European interests . |
| 29 | At the end of the list of ingredients came the contentious E numbers which had annoyed Mrs Green . |
| 30 | Cos he wou his reaction time , understandably , cos he was n't expecting it , ce happened like that and hi his reaction time was too slow to compensate for the stupidity of the bloke coming the other way . |