Example sentences of "[noun sg] come the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there were fires , too , on the skyline above them , while on the wind came the mournful blast of a trumpet . |
| 2 | He sped away with them still on amber , narrowly avoiding a car coming the other way . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | With that decision came the near certainty , strenuously denied at the time , that Aden would grow into a fully fledged military base . |
| 9 | With this purchase came the inevitable decision to ‘ get rid of the horses so long as a comfortable place could be found ’ . |
| 10 | After King of the Wild West came The Frozen North , but that was by no means such a success . |
| 11 | They bent double , and from the front prayer aisle came the distant cry : Allah hu-Akbar ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | From the hut came the nauseating stench of human excrement . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | From outside the window came the shrill piping sound of the juniors playing netball . |
| 17 | Cos he wou his reaction time , understandably , cos he was n't expecting it , ce happened like that and hi his reaction time was too slow to compensate for the stupidity of the bloke coming the other way . |
| 18 | A lady George thought sombrely , with a fine appreciation of the political timescale come the inevitable memorial service in three weeks ' time people would already be asking ‘ Barling ? |
| 19 | From General Portfolio comes the Financial Health Scheme , which provides cash for surgical operations carried out under general anaesthetic in a UK hospital . |
| 20 | But when war came the persistent pedal-point of coalitionism sounded all the louder for the sudden silence of the party truce . |
| 21 | As it was , alongside the battering ram of Scottish public opinion came the well-directed arrows of Charter 88 's Democracy Day to force the key questions of liberalising and decentralising the governance of Britain on to the political map . |
| 22 | Through the open windows of the room came the rich scent of summer flowers . |
| 23 | To the centre of attention came the little nations of Siberia , old relatives of American indians . |
| 24 | Out of this process come the different shades of black people 's skin colour which we see on the streets of London . |
| 25 | Along with the name came the Servite Fathers who had officiated at the old church . |
| 26 | His first world title came the following year when his Alfa enabled him to register three more wins and a six-point win over Ascari in the championship . |
| 27 | Our chance came the following afternoon . |
| 28 | Across the dale came the coughing bark of a dog-fox on the prowl and Elizabeth felt a shaft of worry for her poultry . |
| 29 | From the seminar came the following suggestions : |
| 30 | Throughout the black night came the dull thunder of the bursting banks , the village alarm of ‘ she 've blowed ’ . |