Example sentences of "[adv] came [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To sort of make out s make sure you 've got this and that so you 're ready for the confinement and er But they only came the last minute when when they were the ma mams were expecting their babies . |
| 2 | In these circumstances it seemed to Napoleon III that the Entente needed a boost and so came the first essay in Court diplomacy , the state visit to England in 1855 at the request of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert . |
| 3 | The door it adorned was open and from inside came the familiar sound of a photocopier on print and collate . |
| 4 | From somewhere below came a great rending and echoing squeal of torn metal . |
| 5 | Suddenly from below came the unmistakable sound of gunfire , the roar of a shotgun sounding along with a short sharp burst of a machine gun . |
| 6 | Two years later came a much-publicised split with his wife of 21 years , Tina . |
| 7 | A few minutes later came the first gun-fire . |
| 8 | Later came the acute attacks of asthma — and the need for Caroline to pummel me ( it 's hilarious only in retrospect ! ) as I fought for breath . |
| 9 | Somewhat later came the present owner , John Matta , who now takes great pleasure in greeting Citalia guests and welcomes them on arrival with a gift of the wonderful Chianti Classico from his excellent cellars and offers them a typical Tuscan dinner at a reasonable price , which is taken most weeks in the castle 's impressive banqueting hall . |
| 10 | From the cinema itself there also came a piercing cry . |
| 11 | For instance , some of the poem 's ideas came from Milton 's Paradise Lost , some came from Bruce 's account of the source and fountains of the Blue Nile in Abyssinia , whence also came the Abyssinian maid playing on her dulcimer . |
| 12 | They went on holiday to a farmhouse at Ponsworthy in Devon and thither came a vast parcel , from the Clerical and General Tailors ( Breeches Makers etc. ) , of Sackville Street , Piccadilly , bill £376 ; chimeres , wristbands , rochets , frills , breeches , gaiters , purple dress coat , black barathea breeches , patent court shoes , silver-plated shoe buckles , and other less rare articles of apparel . |
| 13 | two minutes behind came the first horse … for only the second time the wheels had won … |
| 14 | Now came the key play of the king of spades . |
| 15 | Now came the difficult part : telling Patterson I was borrowing his car . |
| 16 | All the time the tide was coming and now was smashing against the wave breakers , but here came a big wave . |
| 17 | Three weeks ago came the ominous phone call . |
| 18 | Claire recovered but when Allitt was again left alone with her almost immediately came the inevitable words ‘ She 's gone ’ , he told the jury . |
| 19 | At that moment there came a faint scratching from the box I 'd built in the corner last evening for the pigeon . |
| 20 | Just as he spoke there came a strange cry from across the moor . |
| 21 | From somewhere outside at one point there came a distant rumble and chinking , like old milk bottles clashing together . |
| 22 | Puzzled , he wondered if she had gone upstairs to her children , which she did not do as a rule , and was about to ascend ; when from up there came a great cry , and the sound of a fall from the window . |
| 23 | And one day when she was working in her little garden slithering between the vine yams there came a green snake . |
| 24 | Out of this morass of doleful depression there came a bright ray of hope and a rhyming solace to the weary and dispirited housewives of the country in the person of Edna Jacques . |
| 25 | From the enemy there came a sudden clamour of shouts . |
| 26 | The events of the week-end seemed to recede , to become locked away , as if I had dreamt them ; and yet as I walked there came the strangest feeling , compounded of the early hour , the absolute solitude , and what had happened , of having entered a myth ; a knowledge of what it was like physically , moment by moment , to have been young and ancient , a Ulysses on his way to meet Circe , a Theseus on his journey to Crete , an Oedipus still searching for his destiny . |
| 27 | While we were talking , from outside in the courtyard there came the sudden sound of excited shouting . |
| 28 | One day as he was meditating in his cave there came an accusing voice within him which he immediately interpreted as a word from God . |
| 29 | When Wales won the Triple Crown in 1988 with a team who had amble development left in them , the future looked bright ; then came a calamitous tour of New Zealand followed by sundry other mishaps and the outlook became as dark as an All Black jersey . |
| 30 | Then came a slight breeze , that grew and went in the space of a few heartbeats . |