Example sentences of "[noun sg] come [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vote came just five days after the United Nations-appointed ‘ Truth Commission ’ report blamed the army for the vast majority of war crimes in a conflict that killed 75,000 people , most of them civilians . |
| 2 | Mr Walsh 's murder came just 11 hours after the UFF shot dead four Catholics and injured a fifth man as they arrived to carry out building work on houses in Castlerock . |
| 3 | The bid comes nearly 13 years after Unigate made its first , unsuccessful , attempt to buy Clifford and follows the latter 's announcement in October of a 60 per cent drop in first-half profits to £1.03 million . |
| 4 | The defeat comes just eight days after England lost by the same score to Norway in a vital World Cup qualifying match in Oslo . |
| 5 | The deal comes just three months after Airtours , the UK 's number two holiday company , lost out in a takeover battle for rival Owners Abroad . |
| 6 | The deal comes just three months after Airtours , the UK 's number two holiday company , lost out in a takeover battle for rival Owners Abroad . |
| 7 | The decision came just eight hours before the deadline imposed by the British Olympic Association ( BOA ) for cities to be considered as the British nomination . |
| 8 | The first Commons debate on world climate change came only two days after the prime minister 's theme-setting UN speech on the environment in November 1989 , yet at no stage in its five-hour course was it attended by more than fourteen MPs . |
| 9 | Proprietors Joan and Graeme Hall came here 10 years ago . |
| 10 | The second volume of drawings in the J. Paul Getty Museum comes out four years after the first and is equally welcome . |
| 11 | We thought it would be a good idea to give them a chance straight off to have an opinion , and we set them a nice problem , which was that they put a marble into something and another marble comes out thirty seconds later . |
| 12 | The cash raising exercise comes just five months after the £15m launch of the trust by Aberdeen Fund Managers via a placing at 100p per share . |
| 13 | we have , you 've got to make a model , yeah and that 's mine , you have to get two men and two children across the river , you 've got one and they ca n't swim , this is my one , two boys go across , one boy comes back , one man goes across , the other boy comes back , two boys go across , one boy comes back , one man goes across the other boy comes back two boys go across , I need to show that on , on . |
| 14 | Te first breakdown came about twenty minutes into the play . |
| 15 | The move came just 24 hours after the BBC announced it was axing Russ Abbot after audience ratings fell . |
| 16 | You will remember that on the occasion of the first valleys initiative statement we had to raise many points with you in order to persuade the right Hon. Gentleman to come here 24 hours after he had made a statement in Wales . |
| 17 | The explosion came just 24 hours after six people were killed when rebels ambushed a bush taxi in the same area on Saturday . |
| 18 | TABLE-topping Imperial Pottery and Alexandra Pottery came out joint winners in the latest bi-annual TNT awards . |
| 19 | This race came only two months after he had run well for a long way when leading the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury and Gaselee told me , ‘ He appeared to love the Newbury race and we were delighted with his performance at that time . ’ |
| 20 | When the mist comes down many areas like the Somerset Levels take on a sinister and unreal appearance |
| 21 | His claim came as local authorities lodged final returns for poll tax registration . |
| 22 | The writing was clearly on the wall for Hitler ; indeed , Lequerica 's appointment came barely two weeks after an assassination attempt on the Führer . |
| 23 | The shock news comes just ten days after Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , castigated local sub-contractors for missing opportunities . |
| 24 | The scathing attack came just two years after Sir Claus had caused a storm by warning our crumbling schools were in danger of turning out the dunces of Europe . |
| 25 | The attack came only five days after another great white killed 34-year-old British-born mother of five Terri Cartwright , who had been on a diving excursion off the island of Tasmania . |
| 26 | Yesterday 's warning came just 48 hours after a Catholic was shot dead by UFF gunmen in Belfast . |
| 27 | Significantly , the ruling came only two days before tens of thousands of people took part in a march from Moscow 's Gorky Park to Manezh Square outside the Kremlin to call for the resignation of Prime Minister Ryzhkov and his government . |
| 28 | The incident came just five days after a pitch invasion by Manchester City fans during their side 's 4–2 FA Cup defeat at home to Tottenham , which was screened live on television . |
| 29 | I 've seen Christmas Fayre come around six times , he thought . |
| 30 | The latest attack comes just two days after a 1,000lb IRA bomb packed into a skip lorry , caused more than £6m worth of damage in Belfast city centre . |