Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] come the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the hedgerow trees near and far come the calls of countless cuckoos , and the lesser sounds of an infinite number of small birds . |
| 2 | The Lake District has seen new editions of Wordsworth 's and Harriet Martineau 's guides , and now comes the reminiscences of Capt. Budworth , who walked the fells in 1792 . |
| 3 | And now comes the Armonk bombshell : it is committed to IBM 's RS/6000 and PowerPC at a time when everything that bears the IBM name has overnight become tainted . |
| 4 | ‘ And here comes the star of the show . ’ |
| 5 | And then came the calling of my name . |
| 6 | And then came the day when he came home to find her standing by the door with her bags packed . |
| 7 | And then came the building of the mass housing estates . |
| 8 | And then came the night his whole world had collapsed , the night he 'd got into a drunken brawl in a harbour side bar and punched a major in the mouth . |
| 9 | And then came the bier , its front draped with a shawl to indicate that it carried a woman , which perhaps accounted for the general meagreness of the proceedings . |
| 10 | And then came the question which against reason he had to ask : |
| 11 | And then came the explosion of passions . |
| 12 | ‘ And then came the Führer ? ’ |
| 13 | June came and went , and then July , and then came the August holidays — and Mummy brought exciting news from the village . |
| 14 | In Europe the ravages of war had to be made good and then came the enlargement of universities , government institutes , and industrial establishments . |
| 15 | The Cecil Cafe next door was run by Mr. Gray and then came The Goat public house , which after closure in 1927 became a hotch-potch of offices and workshops , used by small traders . |
| 16 | We talked first about the Toxteth riots and then came the declaration . |
| 17 | And then came the bombshell . |
| 18 | The tour took just 15 minutes — and then came the moment on which Lynsey 's destiny hinged . |
| 19 | And then comes the bombshell ; ‘ To God be the glory in the church , and in Christ Jesus ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Ever and again comes the thought that what we see of a sign is only the outside of something within , in which the real operations of sense and meaning go on ’ ( 140 ) . |
| 21 | The Germans were more interested at that time in hunting Communists , but later came the Gestapo and then things became much more dangerous . |
| 22 | Slowly , very slowly , our political position began to improve , but then came the event which was to transform the Government 's public standing . |
| 23 | But then came the orderlies , who dealt with me by means of electricity and air . |
| 24 | The utter confidence of the claim incensed her , but then came the pain of knowing that it was all too true . |
| 25 | But then came the deluge . |
| 26 | The dinner was a gloomy affair — ‘ … my guests ' dejection was so great that they turned away from food and drink ’ — but then came the telegram from the King . |
| 27 | But then came the collapse of 1941 , the emergence of the communists as the leading force in the resistance , and the ultimate discrediting of Mihailović and the Četniks . |
| 28 | Five minutes later David Gray restored Brightlingsea 's lead , but then came the Mattless goal . |
| 29 | But then came the news his immigration application had been delayed a few weeks because he 's a diabetic . |
| 30 | Now it 's true that since the second world war all wars have been limited in one sense or another , but then comes the question , if you do , in fact , succeed in defining objectives er and de in defining the means to those objectives , how can you know in fact that you possess genuine capability without putting it to the test , without actually fighting the war and then finding that you can not win it ? |