Example sentences of "[vb past] come the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Shirley happened to come the next day and I about it . |
| 2 | The counsellor feared that would be the last she heard from him so she was pleasantly surprised when he did come the following week , bearing a letter from Susie in Denmark . |
| 3 | And then had come the awful perception that Helen too was vulnerable ; he had seen her exposed , humiliated , disappointed . |
| 4 | Then had come the only question Bess Halidon was ever to ask about the incident . |
| 5 | This noticeboard had already played a significant part in my life : nearly thirty years before then it had displayed the result of my own first degree ( second-class honours ) ; a few years later had come the perfunctory notice saying my doctoral thesis had been accepted by the college ; and shortly after that an even briefer note to the effect that I had joined the teaching staff . |
| 6 | Hoomey had not seen Nails there since , but had an instinct that he had come the following night too . |
| 7 | A man at the back of the crowd said , ‘ I was sitting in the dome car lounge when Xanthe came through , and I can tell you that no one had come the other way . |
| 8 | She had come the other way to the school , and was parked by the road , now , increasingly fretful that the two boys were nowhere to be seen . |
| 9 | From Titron had come the first man who could withstand radiation , be it from a bomb , or in deep space . |
| 10 | Just after Manning had come the agnostic Tyndall , talking about the identity of radiant heat and light ; and just before Stanley , the militant anti-christian W. K. Clifford had held forth on the education of the people , and especially on the importance of technical drawing . |
| 11 | With the words had come the fleeting impression of dark , sinuous creatures who could slither out of the shadows and wind their cold , serpentine fingers about you , so that you were trapped , who could twine about your entire body , so that you were smothered and suffocating from the cold embrace … |