Example sentences of "come the [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Then , finally , came the real women rock stars — Grace Slick and Janis Joplin . |
| 3 | For instance , some of the poem 's ideas came from Milton 's Paradise Lost , some came from Bruce 's account of the source and fountains of the Blue Nile in Abyssinia , whence also came the Abyssinian maid playing on her dulcimer . |
| 4 | ‘ The train which was coming the other way had all its windows broken . ’ |
| 5 | The road out of the village , southwards , shrinks in a quite unforeseeable manner in order to pass under the porch of a small chapel ; this could be distracting , and were something coming the other way lead perhaps to a rare collision on what is no doubt consecrated ground . |
| 6 | The car skidded for what seemed like an eternity and the lady driver coming the other way did her best to stop , but we collided head on . |
| 7 | More gannets will be arriving daily from winter quarters , which may be as far south as the coastal waters of West Africa and with them will come the great skuas to harry them for food . |
| 8 | Whether that will still be the case come the annual summer meeting on June 25 if England lose badly against Brazil and then against Germany in Detroit in a week 's time must be debatable . |
| 9 | Next come the four effects return trim pots , again with plus or minus from the unity gain point , and these are used to fine-mix the level of the effects returning to the Quad-FX 's four stereo loops . |
| 10 | Between these extremes comes the chronic depression found to have affected one in three mothers with pre-school age children in a London study of working-class families . |
| 11 | Next comes the oral trauma associated with the coming of weaning and agriculture and resulting in polytheistic religion . |
| 12 | The report interprets this as society granting landowners monopoly access to a common property resource , and it points out that , with this privilege , comes the moral responsibility to manage the resource for the benefit of society . |