Example sentences of "[noun] came 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 | With that decision came the near certainty , strenuously denied at the time , that Aden would grow into a fully fledged military base . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | With this purchase came the inevitable decision to ‘ get rid of the horses so long as a comfortable place could be found ’ . |
| 13 | After King of the Wild West came The Frozen North , but that was by no means such a success . |
| 14 | They bent double , and from the front prayer aisle came the distant cry : Allah hu-Akbar ! |
| 15 | In July came the first visit from the phantom night hound . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | From the hut came the nauseating stench of human excrement . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | From outside the window came the shrill piping sound of the juniors playing netball . |
| 21 | With Korea came the added fear that America could become involved in Asian affairs to the detriment of European interests . |
| 22 | At the end of the list of ingredients came the contentious E numbers which had annoyed Mrs Green . |
| 23 | But when war came the persistent pedal-point of coalitionism sounded all the louder for the sudden silence of the party truce . |
| 24 | His finest moment came the first time he opened the hall door to a visitor and , standing a little aside , intoned , " Follow me , sir , " before proceeding with due dignity to announce the guest at the door of the morning room . |
| 25 | From the kitchens came the new master , carrying an armful of cardboard chain-mail . |
| 26 | The night air was still warm , and on the breeze came the faintest scent of flowers . |
| 27 | As it was , alongside the battering ram of Scottish public opinion came the well-directed arrows of Charter 88 's Democracy Day to force the key questions of liberalising and decentralising the governance of Britain on to the political map . |
| 28 | Through the open windows of the room came the rich scent of summer flowers . |
| 29 | To the centre of attention came the little nations of Siberia , old relatives of American indians . |
| 30 | Their own family experience had spelled out the horrors of bigotry and racial hatred ; to these general and now somewhat distant things came the chilling reality of Adolf Hitler 's seizure of power in Germany . |