Example sentences of "come the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the builders of this artificial paradise had not been around for several millennia — as Alex Bannen seemed to think — how come the flora and fauna had n't run riot and completely ruined the environment ? |
| 2 | Now this is a turning point in , in American history and er cometh the time cometh the man and the man in this case was Abraham Lincoln and Abraham Lincoln took a rather , a rather different line . |
| 3 | To put this in another way , before democracy came in the Western world there came the society and the politics of choice , the society and politics of competition , the society and politics of the market . |
| 4 | And last of all , came THE KING AND QUEEN OF HEARTS . |
| 5 | ‘ Three cheers for Taureg ! ’ came the order and once , twice , three times , hats and caps rose in the air and once , twice , three times the assembled well-wishers roared their approval . |
| 6 | First came the farmers and then more specialist cultivators : market gardeners , nurserymen and florists . |
| 7 | Through these curtains came the sounds and smells of fifty-nine other men who ranged in age from seventeen to eighty-four . |
| 8 | Towards the end of the final reel came the scrape and swish of the velvet curtains being swept across on their metal rods followed by the clank of the push bars and the sudden rush of cold night air down the back of the neck . |
| 9 | The wheels lifted off the runway , up came the undercarriage and , as it was the short runway , I left the flap down a little longer than usual . |
| 10 | Mr Cavendish adapted the hymn with great enthusiasm : My meat 's fresh and flavoursome , All creatures great and small , All things roast and barbecued , The Lord God made them all — and bang ! down came the cleaver and the blood trickled away down the special channel . |
| 11 | for erm , I know , Insy Winsy spider climb up the water spout , down came the rain and washed poor Winsy out , out came the sun and dried all the rain , and Insy Winsy climb up |
| 12 | Then came the Edrichs and the redoubtable Rought-Roughts . |
| 13 | Up came the river and |
| 14 | When Sams tugged the rope , down came the money and he rode off with it on his scooter , leaving £2,500 in his haste to get away . |
| 15 | With the onset of greater affluence and associated higher wages , came the privatisation and commercialisation of leisure . |
| 16 | Then came the snow and she had to stay in and watch from the window how it piled up against the water butt , how it lay like a blanket along the sills , how it changed the distance from bluey brown to white as far as you could see . |
| 17 | and down came the spider and sat down behind her and frightened Miss Muffet away , there 's a spider |
| 18 | Out came the jewels and bare shoulders , the silk georgette and gold tissue . |
| 19 | Then came the ace and king of spades and a low club from dummy . |
| 20 | Behind them came the yeomen and husbandmen and the better-off craftsmen , and at the rear and along the south wall sat the cottagers . |
| 21 | Then along came the shredder and the electric-arc steel furnace , which gobbled scrap steel . |
| 22 | along came the people and buyed it too |
| 23 | Well Of course came the War and and er like for about twelve years like before the War I 'd been president of the Hosiery Finishers Association . |
| 24 | ( b ) For emphasis : Down came the rain and up went the umbrellas . |
| 25 | Hello my name 's Winsy insy spider climb up the spout , down came the rain and washed Winsy out , when the sun came out it dried up the rain , insy , winsy spider climbed up again thank you , oh thank you , oh thank you , I know , thank you , well , today , at midday today it 's going to be tipping down with rain and winsy , winsy , winsy , spider will fall down the rain , |
| 26 | for erm , I know , Insy Winsy spider climb up the water spout , down came the rain and washed poor Winsy out , out came the sun and dried all the rain , and Insy Winsy climb up |
| 27 | Insy winsy spider climbing up spout , came the rain and |
| 28 | The Germans were more interested at that time in hunting Communists , but later came the Gestapo and then things became much more dangerous . |
| 29 | Three little kittens , three little kittens , see how they run , see how they came , along came the father and make it hat , when he put his hat on and said |
| 30 | And so in their turn came the fox and the stoat and the weasel . |