Example sentences of "[adv prt] come [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In came the clothes shop owning , rugby playing manager Joe Moss , and in came a traumatic realisation that bedsit jabbering and glorious friendships were not enough .
2 As we settled ourselves , the boardroom door opened and in came the stocky figure of a man I had met , in quite different circumstances , a couple of weeks before .
3 First there was a small elephant and it had the natural financial goal painted on its side , then along came a bigger elephant with a bigger number , and then a huge elephant with a huge number , and he said , ‘ Go for it !
4 Then along came a new managers ' tool for community care planning called The X Factor .
5 Then along came an entrepreneurial Yorkshireman called Thomas Stamford Raffles .
6 Down comes the house ; down come the tall trees , naked and gashed lies the once beautiful park .
7 Out of the land of heaven Down comes the warm Sabbath sun .
8 Out goes the old entry-level 486/P range in comes the 486/L family .
9 VARIOUS : ‘ Night And Day — The Cole Porter Songbook ’ ( Polydor ) with the renewed interest following ‘ Red Hot And Blue ’ , along comes a superb collection of this classic English gent 's epic songs by a host of jazz greats , including Ella Fitzgerald , Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday — out now
10 Off came the stylish suit and soon she was again prancing provocatively around the stage in a skimpy pink sequined bra and shorts .
11 From below he heard shouting and running feet , and from further off came the muffled sound of more gunfire .
12 Off came the flying jacket and up for sale went the £200,000 aircraft .
13 I pulled the knob and out came a circular weight covered in purple velvet .
14 Out came a beautiful girl , fair as a pearl .
15 Dress in ‘ bad taste ’ was the order of the day at Key Street and out came the psychedelic shirts , hideous trousers , flower power shorts , multi-coloured spotted nightshirts , loud ties and luminous tights , complete with resplendent ankle socks .
16 Back came a signed copy of her latest book ‘ The Best of Edna Jacques ’ and a letter typed on the same old machine on which she pounded out her poems .
17 Back came the prolonged roar : ‘ No . ’
18 Back came the pompous reply : ‘ We never attribute emotions to Her Majesty . ’
19 In 60 to 90 seconds , out comes a perfect mix .
20 You signed up for tennis lessons ( out comes the shorty tennis skirt , a volley of wolf-whistles from the labourers outside , and off to the courts where the horrid male instructor drills you as if you 're in the Green Berets ) .
21 In chronic catarrh with a thick discharge suppressed , possibly by a cold , and on comes a severe headache , in the forehead , face , ears .
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