Example sentences of "[noun] come the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And there were fires , too , on the skyline above them , while on the wind came the mournful blast of a trumpet . |
2 | Through hidden speakers came the rhythmic itch of cicadas . |
3 | Down came the huge paw . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | He sped away with them still on amber , narrowly avoiding a car coming the other way . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 |
11 | 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 . |
12 | With that decision came the near certainty , strenuously denied at the time , that Aden would grow into a fully fledged military base . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | With this purchase came the inevitable decision to ‘ get rid of the horses so long as a comfortable place could be found ’ . |
16 | After King of the Wild West came The Frozen North , but that was by no means such a success . |
17 | They bent double , and from the front prayer aisle came the distant cry : Allah hu-Akbar ! |
18 | 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 . |
19 | From the hut came the nauseating stench of human excrement . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | From outside the window came the shrill piping sound of the juniors playing netball . |
23 | With Korea came the added fear that America could become involved in Asian affairs to the detriment of European interests . |
24 | At the end of the list of ingredients came the contentious E numbers which had annoyed Mrs Green . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | Leeds ’ possesion play was excellent , and I do n't think that they will be far away from honours come the new season ’ |
27 | A lady George thought sombrely , with a fine appreciation of the political timescale come the inevitable memorial service in three weeks ' time people would already be asking ‘ Barling ? |
28 | From General Portfolio comes the Financial Health Scheme , which provides cash for surgical operations carried out under general anaesthetic in a UK hospital . |
29 | But when war came the persistent pedal-point of coalitionism sounded all the louder for the sudden silence of the party truce . |
30 | From the kitchens came the new master , carrying an armful of cardboard chain-mail . |