Example sentences of "come [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only it had come a few years earlier . |
| 2 | Through the swing doors came the same chef , this time carrying dishes of mushrooms , tomatoes and fried eggs . |
| 3 | Maurice came a little way into the room , looked down at the body and moved away again . |
| 4 | The first cavalry charge came a few minutes later and it clearly worried the pickets . |
| 5 | But Yorkshire 's lead by then was 53 with the final 20 overs approaching and Craig White and Darren Gough carefully batted on until rain came a few minutes before the close . |
| 6 | Well , Anna came a few times . |
| 7 | With that came a few showers , mostly on the east coast . |
| 8 | Ian 's moment of glory came a few days later . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , who cares where it came from ! ’ screamed Mavis , as the wolf came a few steps further into the room . |
| 10 | Mr Creme believes Christ has already come again — came a few years ago actually — and is now residing in the Asian community in London , waiting for a more receptive attitude from the press before He shows Himself on worldwide television , when ‘ He wo n't actually speak , but His thoughts , His ideas , His call to humanity , will take place silently , telepathically . ’ |
| 11 | In 1752 Horace Walpole instructed his brother , Ned , to collect tea seed ; Gilbert White came a few years later to discuss difficulties over growing melons at Selborne ; and Charles Hatton selected two pots of passion flower , ‘ lusty and strong ’ in April 1760 . |
| 12 | One of the sharpest recessions came a few years after the Conservative government , sensitive to the enormous profits made in earlier years , had imposed ( in 1963 ) a variable levy rising to 45 per cent on the companies ' advertising revenue ( as distinct from their profits ) . |
| 13 | But she liked the money , and the new house , and the new dresses — and the six fields of apple trees and the big farm north of Stratford that came a few years later . |
| 14 | Richard 's turn came a few months later . |
| 15 | It is clearly related to the Horta figure work although it came a few months later , and it shows the same intensive analysis of the nature of solid forms . |
| 16 | A tickling cough coming every few hours with increasing intensity . |
| 17 | He says you 're expecting him , that you were informed he would be coming a few months ago . |
| 18 | The timing of Nguyen 's visit was regarded as significant by some commentators , coming a few days before the arrival in Moscow of the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party , Jiang Zemin [ see p. 38189 ] . |
| 19 | ‘ He can count his good luck that he did n't come a few minutes earlier , ’ Rune said crisply . |
| 20 | All stuff , cos then we , they imported a lot of er razors and erm all different television stuff and we had a lot of beer come in from erm Germany , lot of beer come the that stuff , that 's a Dutch beer . |
| 21 | Both cases come a few weeks after a 12-year-old American boy , Gregory Kingsley , ‘ divorced ’ his parents in a court action in Florida . |
| 22 | Only from his lips cautiously comes the same answer . |