Example sentences of "[noun sg] come [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From out of the terrible confusion came a different voice , a gentle voice , a voice that understood . |
| 2 | And there were fires , too , on the skyline above them , while on the wind came the mournful blast of a trumpet . |
| 3 | To his right wing the hills sloped gently down and were of little interest but on his left they formed a steep escarpment up whose side came a soaring wind . |
| 4 | A naked woman squatted there , her face hidden behind a black veil ; from her mouth came a foul toad and round her neck curled an amber snake , its red-slit eyes flashing like diamonds . |
| 5 | Into his mind came a sudden vision of a classroom at Commonweal School , with motes of chalk-dust swirling in shafts of sunlight . |
| 6 | Before she had time to assimilate anything , from the top of the gangway came a terrible growl — deep , huge , more frightening in its ferocity than any wild animal she 'd ever heard . |
| 7 | He sped away with them still on amber , narrowly avoiding a car coming the other way . |
| 8 | I used to be a hunt supporter , I used to be a hunt follower I gave up because I object to an attitude of a society of people that life is disposable having seen wounded fox hounds and that is the proper term having seen wounded fox hounds despatched with a revolver because they 've got a broken leg having charged full pelt across a public road and hit a motor car coming the other way and fortunately not injured the occupants of the motor car having seen the damage that a pack of hounds in full cry can do to land that they are not entitled to be upon because fox hounds ca n't read . |
| 9 | We 're going down this road and John was in front of me and just as John went past this wagon it pulled out and there was a car coming the other way . |
| 10 | just gon na have to you know be stopped there anyway this young lad after the first fast bend he went to overtake and I could see a car coming the other way and he was like er running along side this pick-up but it was like he could n't drop back and he could n't make it either |
| 11 | At its top the uterus is two inches across , and from each side come the fallopian tubes , themselves about 4½ inches in length , which serve as the channel down which the ovum travels from the ovaries , which are situated at the far end of the fallopian tubes . |
| 12 | FROM THE home of the original Bambaataa the chieftain who led the last great Zulu revolt against white rule comes the African Hip Hop Movement . |
| 13 | With the elimination of political opposition comes a virtual elimination of cultural alternatives . |
| 14 | In the next instant came a great flash . |
| 15 | With that decision came the near certainty , strenuously denied at the time , that Aden would grow into a fully fledged military base . |
| 16 | The Labour government lost office in 1951 , however , to be replaced by a Conservative one , and with this change came a different approach to economic policy which included the revival of monetary methods of control — in particular the manipulation of bank rate and associated interest rates . |
| 17 | With this purchase came the inevitable decision to ‘ get rid of the horses so long as a comfortable place could be found ’ . |
| 18 | From the kitchen came a high whistle . |
| 19 | British Telecom partly-paid came a close second , volumes hitting 53m as the shares firmed 19 to 1191/2 ( after touching 126p ) . |
| 20 | After King of the Wild West came The Frozen North , but that was by no means such a success . |
| 21 | From the hall came a welcome interruption . |
| 22 | That requirement came a great deal sooner than anticipated . |
| 23 | Down the aisle came a blond choirboy , in sheet and halo , his pure voice just cracking , accompanied by a very limited multitude of the heavenly host . |
| 24 | They bent double , and from the front prayer aisle came the distant cry : Allah hu-Akbar ! |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | From the hut came the nauseating stench of human excrement . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | From outside the window came the shrill piping sound of the juniors playing netball . |
| 30 | To the latter question came a rambling reply which encompassed various themes : the economic , the scientific , the geographical , the touristic and , lastly , the ideological . |