Example sentences of "[noun] came the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | With that decision came the near certainty , strenuously denied at the time , that Aden would grow into a fully fledged military base . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | With this purchase came the inevitable decision to ‘ get rid of the horses so long as a comfortable place could be found ’ . |
| 8 | After King of the Wild West came The Frozen North , but that was by no means such a success . |
| 9 | They bent double , and from the front prayer aisle came the distant cry : Allah hu-Akbar ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | From the hut came the nauseating stench of human excrement . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | From outside the window came the shrill piping sound of the juniors playing netball . |
| 14 | With Korea came the added fear that America could become involved in Asian affairs to the detriment of European interests . |
| 15 | But when war came the persistent pedal-point of coalitionism sounded all the louder for the sudden silence of the party truce . |
| 16 | From the kitchens came the new master , carrying an armful of cardboard chain-mail . |
| 17 | Through the open windows of the room came the rich scent of summer flowers . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | His first world title came the following year when his Alfa enabled him to register three more wins and a six-point win over Ascari in the championship . |
| 20 | Our chance came the following afternoon . |
| 21 | With Gutenberg came the fifteenth-century invention of printing and there , so far as educational technology was concerned , innovation stayed until the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | Across the dale came the coughing bark of a dog-fox on the prowl and Elizabeth felt a shaft of worry for her poultry . |
| 23 | From Brussels and Strasbourg came the stern warning : ‘ This constitutes a monopoly — get rid of it ! ’ |
| 24 | Throughout the black night came the dull thunder of the bursting banks , the village alarm of ‘ she 've blowed ’ . |
| 25 | Periodically through the dust and the rutted mud came the laden pedlar , on his feet or the back of a donkey ; and from his strapped load presently spilled the trifling , precious wares of his trade-the cheap gloves and laces , the toys , trinkets and gee-gaws , the lengths of material — and , most important of all for our purposes here , the ballad sheets , broadsides and booklets that brought news of the wider world and stories and verse to give pleasure round the hearth in the long winter evenings . |
| 26 | With this type of traffic came the added danger of drugs and/or other contraband brought in to finance themselves , although this combination of smuggling was not common , probably because all their cash had been paid to the organisers of the run . |
| 27 | Verse 10 : from Judah came the royal line of Israel , from which the Messiah would eventually be born . |
| 28 | On Wednesday came the Greek paper . |
| 29 | Fringing this stunning awareness came the long-forgotten knowledge of status . |
| 30 | The first was that , with the passage in 1832 of the Reform Bill came the full realisation that parliamentary reform had done nothing for the emergent working class , except to isolate it . |