Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [art] [noun] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can lie and lie beautifully , but sooner or later the truth comes back like a wave and sweeps everything before it . |
| 2 | Only a classic endures , and sooner or later the fashion comes full circle . |
| 3 | So that now the GCSE comes along , and lo ! what do we have but composition , performance and listening over four terms , and continuous assessment , etc . |
| 4 | The Eastaway and Treharne names still retained in the Thomas family indicate that originally the family came from the coastal region of Glamorgan between Neath and Gower . |
| 5 | I tried phoning you this lunchtime to ask about the above proposal , but I do n't even know if I had the right number , though I got through to it twice ; about five different people spoke to me uncomprehendingly , and eventually a man came to the phone and said ‘ Bratislava ’ ; I did n't know whether that meant I 'd got a Bratislava number , or that you 'd gone to Bratislava . |
| 6 | Rumours spread ; and eventually the day came when ‘ he was found in his shop dead , sprawled amidst rubbish around him . ’ |
| 7 | Mhoira Robertson did take up golf , which became her favourite pastime , and eventually the promotions came , first as Director of studies and Chief Inspector at Tulliallan Police College and finally in 1987 as Superintendent within the Lothians and Borders force . |
| 8 | Presumably , also tax payers would erm , tax payer cost of er , the Common Agricultural Policies is substantial , and most the support comes from er , most of the support under the Common Agricultural Policy is given er , in terms of higher food prices that consumers pay . |
| 9 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 10 | A tug-o'-war ensued and suddenly the rope came — unzipping all those carefully placed runners like a thumb through a banana skin . |
| 11 | ‘ Now watch , ’ said the doctor , and suddenly the wire came out of the tube in a kind of loop and the doctor lassoed the polyp as if it were a steer . |
| 12 | And so the day came when , stripped of their weapons , that Ducas gang were herded to the garrison block nestling in the shell of the hive hard by the gateway fortress which guarded access and egress for the land trains . |
| 13 | This he did , and so the case came before the Court of Exchequer which , by a majority , decided in favour of the defendant . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , advance he did , and so the time came for his Bar Mitzvah , at 13 years of age , by which every Jewish boy technically becomes adult ( i.e. morally responsible for his actions ) , a ‘ son of the law ’ . |
| 15 | The king married Philippa to Edmund Mortimer Earl of March in 1368 , and thus the earl came to possess not only the Mortimer family lands in the Welsh March which had been restored to his father in 1354 , but also the Clare lordship of Usk , the Clare lands in Dorset , Somerset and East Anglia , and the de Burgh earldom of Ulster . |
| 16 | ‘ I went back to my room and soon a girl came with flat blonde hair , sickly-looking . |
| 17 | Slowly and painfully the story came out . |
| 18 | And once the ships came , they could hinder the disembarkation and delay the eleven hundred in their march , wherever they may be making for . |
| 19 | Once Fat Watt came with them , and once the priest came and all four stood there together . |
| 20 | I suspect that if ever the day came when we had the misfortune of the Labour party inflicting regional government on us from Newcastle , those people would be wondering why their income tax or whatever other form of tax that Labour would seek to impose was so much higher in the northern region than elsewhere . |
| 21 | Baldwin , with a glowering Churchill beside him and uncertain followers behind him , took the opportunity to pay a notable tribute to the Viceroy and to end it on a curious note , half petulant , half menacing : ‘ I will only add that if ever the day comes when the party which I lead ceases to attract to itself men of the calibre of Edward Wood , then I have finished with my party . ’ |
| 22 | Creggan was startled by this and wondered if in some way she understood that he had made a vow that if ever the chance came for them to escape he would place her freedom before his own . |
| 23 | As with planting , so with pruning : hundreds of books , millions of words , lots of diagrams and illustrations , and still the questions come ! |
| 24 | Their feet were splashing now through deep puddles , and still the rain came down . |
| 25 | Fear was there , certainly , and also an inability to come to terms with what had happened , but there was something more . |
| 26 | That Mrs Aggie no longer went ragging in The Courts , but , instead , encouraged the children to bring what rags they had to the yard , there to receive their candy rock , and also the women to come on a Sunday morning to the barn and buy what they wanted , she knew was very wise . |
| 27 | Nearer and nearer the squares came to the picture until there were only four left and Ferdinando made himself ready for the journey to Leghorn , where he would take over Gigia and Oreste from Mr Ogilvy , who continued to Rome , and see one to Florence and the other to Siena . |
| 28 | — and now a wood Comes toward Dunsinane . |
| 29 | Marry they of course did , and now the honours came fast . |
| 30 | Long years ago , we made a tryst with destiny , and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge , not wholly or in full measure , but very substantially . |