Example sentences of "come a [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Tsvangirai 's detention came a day after his Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions denounced the government 's closure of the University of Zimbabwe and accused it of unleashing ‘ brutal state force ’ against opponents . |
| 2 | Chevron 's swift counter-attack came a day after Pennzoil announced it had spent $2.1 billion to build up a nine per cent share stake in Chevron and said it planned to continue investing in the oil giant as a passive shareholder . |
| 3 | There came a rattle as the phone was hung up . |
| 4 | There came a stage though , when the hand methods began to be replaced by the compressed-air ( or steam powered ) mechanical rock-drill . |
| 5 | There came a stage when the songwriter no longer wanted to be bound by the agreement so he sought a declaration that it was contrary to public policy and therefore unenforceable . |
| 6 | But there came a point when beautiful stories and analogies wore thin . |
| 7 | So there came a point when it made sense to change that particular balance . |
| 8 | This proved to be one of the sources of its downfall : there came a point when failure to come up with the goods , rationalised by ‘ the need for more research ’ , began to sound a little hollow and begged the asking of more fundamental questions . |
| 9 | Another member of ASUTRAMES explained how the repression increased , until there came a point when the Association had to call a halt to its public activities . |
| 10 | I found that they were engaged in retailing rather heavy jokes ; and there came a point when Eliot , feeling perhaps that he ought to contribute , embarked upon a rather long story about George V. It ran somewhat as follows . |
| 11 | There came a point when we had to advise our client that she did n't proceed further . |
| 12 | It came a week after she buried her mother , who had also shared their home . |
| 13 | Their first approach , late at night in his hotel room , came a week after he had received his sister 's long and excited letter telling him of her marriage . |
| 14 | There can come a point when a child is genuinely beside himself ( you have to use your knowledge of your child ) and you need to encompass him firmly in your arms until he calms down . |
| 15 | There may come a point when the rights and needs of other people have to be taken into account in the planning which is done for old people and it is morally unacceptable to take a stance which disregards others ' interests . |
| 16 | There may come a point when a person with HIV infection who is ill should tell the GP treating them otherwise there may be a dangerous delay in making an accurate diagnosis . |
| 17 | There must come a point when you realize that all these confidences are piling up , useless , in the store room , like the possessions elderly people sometimes keep for no purpose . |
| 18 | Paul Lane , watching , wondered if there would come a point when he would have to step between them . |
| 19 | Charles recognised that there would come a point when one found this relentless sexual innuendo irritating . |
| 20 | I think there does come a point when there is resistance . |
| 21 | Small-time south London villains have a habit of getting above themselves and they usually come a cropper when they tangle with the East End families or the heavy mobs dealing in drugs . |
| 22 | A track runs east from the car park , alongside the magnificent Water of Nevis , starting off benignly enough to lure bored coiffured teenagers in high heels along it until they come a cropper as it climbs through the woods and becomes rocky . |
| 23 | Would there ever come an occasion when she could put them on , together with the leghorn hat , or the felt , and the new shoes that she would buy herself ? |
| 24 | However , this can not go on forever : there comes a stage when nuclear fusion to produce yet heavier elements requires energy , rather than producing it . |
| 25 | The move comes a week after Norman Lamont announced that the Queen will not pay tax . |
| 26 | The news comes a week after ICL closed a deal with the BBC to outsource its IBM mainframes through its Facilities Management arm , CFM , as well as providing the BBC with an Open Hire agreement for Unix systems . |
| 27 | The proposal to close Seacombe Ferry comes a week after the revitalised service won a top tourist award for the second successive year . |
| 28 | The tragedy comes a month after these wedding photographs were taken . |
| 29 | And out of the disorder of the mangled metal work comes a process as flowing and systematic as if it were building a pristine model from scratch . |
| 30 | Of course all these things are relative , I told him , of course if you take the long perspective there 's never anywhere to move forward to and all advance is illusory , but in the short perspective there comes a point when there is no option except to abandon . |