Example sentences of "come the [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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | He came the most appalling cropper . |
| 6 | There was a wild storm , and with it came the most frightening thunder and lightning that I have ever seen in my life . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In 1609 came the most sensational discovery of his life . |
| 9 | Then came the reassuringly calm voice of the Stage Manager over the loudspeaker . |
| 10 | ‘ First I 've heard of it , ’ came the seemingly uninterested reply , ‘ anyway , I 'm going steady with Molly , ai n't that right Selwyn ? ’ |
| 11 | No thank you ’ came the rather strange reply from the dark . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Do n't bother ! ’ came the almost snappy response . |
| 14 | On the basis of that modular thinking came the somewhat revolutionary idea ( for 1963 ) of the single , ergonomically efficient control console . |
| 15 | ( ’ 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 . ) |
| 16 | Do n't be tempted to think that your problems are over — now come the really difficult decisions . |
| 17 | Now comes the most difficult part — do it again but with the ‘ throttle hold ’ switched on as the model starts to descend . |
| 18 | Next comes the extremely widespread stress upon the Eucharist as the centre of the Church and its unity . |