Example sentences of "[adv prt] came [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 | Off came the stylish suit and soon she was again prancing provocatively around the stage in a skimpy pink sequined bra and shorts . |
7 | From below he heard shouting and running feet , and from further off came the muffled sound of more gunfire . |
8 | Off came the flying jacket and up for sale went the £200,000 aircraft . |
9 | I pulled the knob and out came a circular weight covered in purple velvet . |
10 | Out came a beautiful girl , fair as a pearl . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Back came the prolonged roar : ‘ No . ’ |
14 | Back came the pompous reply : ‘ We never attribute emotions to Her Majesty . ’ |