Example sentences of "come [art] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That overweight bounder Billy Bunter has come the most frightful cropper at the BBC . |
| 2 | Next had come the much bigger step in to cable television , which he believes will one day be a major community resource and the source of enormous profits through home-order shopping on two-way TV lines . |
| 3 | ‘ Innkeeper , ’ had come the almost inaudible reply . |
| 4 | There 's a forest fifty miles off , it 's outside our window because it 's not in this room and to come a little nearer home ther there 's a campus outside our window but we ca n't exactly see very much of it but we know it 's there and it 's got some birds in it , it 's probably got some little insects in it and there 's a woodpecker |
| 5 | With growing success has also come a more informed understanding of the quality of life . |
| 6 | He had come a very long way in the decade since his wife had failed to win a Belfast Corporation seat ! |
| 7 | Well Ivan has brought along this harp which is actually an Irish harp which has come a very long way . |
| 8 | He 's come a very long way to see what you 've got to say as well as hear the stories . |
| 9 | She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge the fact that she had come a very long way since those days when she had been a thin , gawky adolescent . |
| 10 | England seem to have come an awfully long way simply to discover that it 's a small world , and the Irish did not need reminding about Murphy 's Law . |
| 11 | As far as Paul and Granville are concerned , they 've already come an unfeasibly long way since they got together a couple of years ago at college in Derby . |
| 12 | ‘ Out came the most perfect rendering I had ever heard , ’ said Coghill , ‘ except that given a short while before by John Gielgud in his Haymarket Hamlet . |
| 13 | He came the most appalling cropper . |
| 14 | There was a wild storm , and with it came the most frightening thunder and lightning that I have ever seen in my life . |
| 15 | Then came the most dramatic theory of all — that German commandos dressed as British soldiers had stormed ashore on a summer 's night in 1940 . |
| 16 | In 1609 came the most sensational discovery of his life . |
| 17 | Then came the reassuringly calm voice of the Stage Manager over the loudspeaker . |
| 18 | ‘ First I 've heard of it , ’ came the seemingly uninterested reply , ‘ anyway , I 'm going steady with Molly , ai n't that right Selwyn ? ’ |
| 19 | No thank you ’ came the rather strange reply from the dark . |
| 20 | In between came the almost arrogant announcement that President Bush had decided unilaterally to end the diplomatic isolation China had suffered since the massacre of Tiananmen Square . |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't bother ! ’ came the almost snappy response . |
| 22 | On the basis of that modular thinking came the somewhat revolutionary idea ( for 1963 ) of the single , ergonomically efficient control console . |
| 23 | ( ’ The people who sold the soap for us want to replenish their supply ’ came the typically slippery message to McFarlane ; his secretary described how , when such messages came , he would look at her with a puzzled expression . ) |
| 24 | ‘ For a long time , ’ he says , ‘ the king acted on the advice of William of Montague , who always encouraged him to excellence , honour , and love of arms : and so they led their young lives in pleasant fashion , until there came a more serious time with more serious matters . ’ |
| 25 | I tried to banish the idea of a drowned Shelley by conjuring up the memory of Mary stepping into Lake Geneva and looking back at me over her shoulder ; instead came a more ferocious image — that of a gigantic man leaping towards me : not the best picture to help one through these present circumstances . |
| 26 | From far away , there came a very faint whoozing whiffling noise , like a small gusty wind blowing through the trees . |
| 27 | From somewhere nearby came a very dubious smell . |
| 28 | Everyone else — particularly your wife ! — came a very bad second . ’ |
| 29 | Then came a very special occasion . |
| 30 | At first came a very senior Sister and went over to the childless one in the corner . |