Example sentences of "there come a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that moment there came a faint scratching from the box I 'd built in the corner last evening for the pigeon . |
| 2 | Just as he spoke there came a strange cry from across the moor . |
| 3 | From somewhere outside at one point there came a distant rumble and chinking , like old milk bottles clashing together . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And one day when she was working in her little garden slithering between the vine yams there came a green snake . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | From the enemy there came a sudden clamour of shouts . |