Example sentences of "[noun] come a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the bushes came a low snort and the scraping of branches . |
| 2 | From out of the terrible confusion came a different voice , a gentle voice , a voice that understood . |
| 3 | To his right wing the hills sloped gently down and were of little interest but on his left they formed a steep escarpment up whose side came a soaring wind . |
| 4 | A naked woman squatted there , her face hidden behind a black veil ; from her mouth came a foul toad and round her neck curled an amber snake , its red-slit eyes flashing like diamonds . |
| 5 | Into his mind came a sudden vision of a classroom at Commonweal School , with motes of chalk-dust swirling in shafts of sunlight . |
| 6 | Before she had time to assimilate anything , from the top of the gangway came a terrible growl — deep , huge , more frightening in its ferocity than any wild animal she 'd ever heard . |
| 7 | But the real matiness of Ken came a short while later . |
| 8 | With the environments came a new piece of jargon ; WYSIWYG . |
| 9 | Stephen saw the police cars coming a long way off , three of them in a convoy coming up the white road from Hilderbridge . |
| 10 | New from Frisk comes a complete airbrush system . |
| 11 | Berkshire comes a close second . |
| 12 | Berkshire comes a close second . |
| 13 | FROM THE treasury of BBC moving pictures comes a further production of classic action , all set on English fields , all in colour except the first sequence ( the Oval Test of 1968 ) , all pleasant , positive viewing . |
| 14 | With the elimination of political opposition comes a virtual elimination of cultural alternatives . |
| 15 | In the next instant came a great flash . |
| 16 | The Labour government lost office in 1951 , however , to be replaced by a Conservative one , and with this change came a different approach to economic policy which included the revival of monetary methods of control — in particular the manipulation of bank rate and associated interest rates . |
| 17 | From the kitchen came a high whistle . |
| 18 | British Telecom partly-paid came a close second , volumes hitting 53m as the shares firmed 19 to 1191/2 ( after touching 126p ) . |
| 19 | From the hall came a welcome interruption . |
| 20 | That requirement came a great deal sooner than anticipated . |
| 21 | Down the aisle came a blond choirboy , in sheet and halo , his pure voice just cracking , accompanied by a very limited multitude of the heavenly host . |
| 22 | To the latter question came a rambling reply which encompassed various themes : the economic , the scientific , the geographical , the touristic and , lastly , the ideological . |
| 23 | Nearer , a plump , important-looking individual was tallying the stores being unloaded from a recently arrived wagon , and from the armoury came a steady clanging as the blacksmith hammered the dents out of the shield of a knight , who stood by watching . |
| 24 | It is true though , that where waters are absolutely saturated with maggots , even bread comes a poor second . |
| 25 | From the insides of the wood comes a piercing screech . |
| 26 | Between the slimline deskside 400 series and the 240 desktop machine comes a new Level 300 series of low-end servers designed in conjunction with ICL parent Fujitsu Ltd . |
| 27 | From this vantage comes a high-spirited memoir ( The Hearsts : Father and Son , Roberts Rinehart , £16.95 ) of where he went ( everywhere ) and who he met ( everyone ) as a newspaperman and heir to the publishing empire . |
| 28 | Molly Cochran and Warren Murphy have produced a much-praised Arthurian fantasy in The Forever King ( Millenium , Orion 's SF and fantasy list ) ; and from Arrow comes a monumental novel of war in Beirut by Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci , Inshallah . |
| 29 | Among politicians who have spent their lives working within the seemingly fixed assumptions of the Cold War came a sobering recognition of the speed and scale of events , which even prompted Mrs Thatcher to stress that talk of a reunited Germany was ‘ going much too fast . |
| 30 | Maurice came a little way into the room , looked down at the body and moved away again . |