Example sentences of "[noun sg] come the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Across the dale came the coughing bark of a dog-fox on the prowl and Elizabeth felt a shaft of worry for her poultry . |
| 32 | From the seminar came the following suggestions : |
| 33 | Throughout the black night came the dull thunder of the bursting banks , the village alarm of ‘ she 've blowed ’ . |
| 34 | A PRANKSTER who dangled his head out of a car window was killed when he was hit by a lorry coming the other way . |
| 35 | You could be a lorry coming the other way . |
| 36 | After the first ascent by a six-year-old schoolgirl comes the first junkie-ascent of Europe 's biggest ( not counting Eastern interlopers ) . |
| 37 | In the distance comes the familiar note of a Deltic engine but there 's nothing scheduled . |
| 38 | The car skidded for what seemed like an eternity and the lady driver coming the other way did her best to stop , but we collided head on . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | They drive on the wrong side of the road for some considerable distance which actually amazes me , I 'm sitting there lawfully in the queue and someone comes whizzing by on the right er without any sight of the traffic coming the other way , er interestingly we did have the police er have had the police up there monitoring the situation . |
| 42 | There was another train coming the other way on the track next to her . |
| 43 | He died instantly from head injuries caused by either the fall , or the imnpact of a train coming the other way . |
| 44 | In the highest rank come the founding treaties , which are concluded by the Member States . |
| 45 | All stuff , cos then we , they imported a lot of er razors and erm all different television stuff and we had a lot of beer come in from erm Germany , lot of beer come the that stuff , that 's a Dutch beer . |
| 46 | And it could be that he will be battling his old team-mates for the big prize come the New Year . |
| 47 | Fringing this stunning awareness came the long-forgotten knowledge of status . |
| 48 | Far below London in size came the provincial capitals , the cities of Norwich , Bristol , York , Exeter , Newcastle upon Tyne and perhaps Salisbury and Coventry , each of which began to recover from the doldrums of the late-medieval recession during the middle years of Elizabeth 's reign . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | Out of that realisation came the explosive mixture of a massive emigration from East Germany and an overwhelming popular challenge to the party inside it . |
| 51 | Frogmarched to the open rear doors , she met the fourth man coming the other way , his arms struggling to restrain the squirming , yelling child . |
| 52 | At the visible apex of this trend come the urban disorders of Brixton and Bristol , Toxteth and Tottenham . |
| 53 | ‘ From the mountains of the east come the Orcish hordes : green-skinned savages with the hearts of beasts and the fury of madmen . |
| 54 | He was just telling the driver of the light engine that he would be away in a minute , when from Bradley Fold station box came the 4-5-5 signal ( train or vehicles running away on the right line ) . |
| 55 | from somewhere across the city came the lonely scream of a police car . |
| 56 | There could have been another car/coach/taxi coming the other way ! ’ |
| 57 | If not , the lessons are clear — there will not be a kick-start come the next election , but the Tories will be kicked out . |
| 58 | Out of that same after-hours milieu come The Young Disciples , who comprise two British DJs , Femi Williams and Marco Nelson and an American songstress , Carleen Anderson , who is the daughter of soul legends Bobby Byrd and Vicky Anderson , two members of James Brown 's legendary JB 's . |
| 59 | Whether that will still be the case come the annual summer meeting on June 25 if England lose badly against Brazil and then against Germany in Detroit in a week 's time must be debatable . |
| 60 | Out of the crisis of investor confidence caused by the Great Depression came the best-known scheme of securities regulation , that of the United States . |