Example sentences of "come the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just after Manning had come the agnostic Tyndall , talking about the identity of radiant heat and light ; and just before Stanley , the militant anti-christian W. K. Clifford had held forth on the education of the people , and especially on the importance of technical drawing . |
| 2 | It began life , probably in the Severan period , resembling a winged-corridor villa , which had been terraced into the slope which runs down to the river ; it contained several heated rooms in the west wing and a water tank , possibly fed by local collection , in the front courtyard Later additions and alterations greatly improved and enlarged the building ; an ornamental fountain behind the house , from which came the famous Corbridge lion , was now linked to the aqueduct . |
| 3 | And then came the first Wednesday in October — the day of the Woman 's Institute bush walk . |
| 4 | And then came the second Fleet Street sensation . |
| 5 | Flashing through the birch wood came the white Mercedes-Benz , from which he leapt in his greatcoat and then dashed across the yard yelling out orders . |
| 6 | Then came the infamous NME interview last November — their last for the weekly music papers . |
| 7 | After Edgbaston came the English Stroke-Play Championship at Hollinwell where , as she had feared from the outset , she had to pull out after just the one round because of swollen glands . |
| 8 | Just when we thought we were comfortably settled , Mrs Brown informed us that some friends who took a stall in the Bedford market were coming the next Saturday and that , as she had always put them up , would we mind sleeping in the kitchen on a sofa and a shake-down ? |
| 9 | And more often than not , out of the sun would come the yellow-nosed Messerschmitts , long before our fighters had had sufficient time in which to gain their best operational height . |
| 10 | Come the following Sunday , therefore , I returned to the site alone and noticed that my friends had indeed given the field a careful search , for much of the soil was flattened by footprints . |
| 11 | Half a century ago Mr Guerra , a fellow Andalucian , would have fought a duel over this remark , but he is happy , come the 29 October elections , to crush Mr Pacheco 's party into the ash-white earth of Jerez . |
| 12 | Also from Murray comes the controversial James Beck 's Art Restoration , The Culture , the Business and the Scandal ( April , £16.99 ) in which he reworks the debate the debate over restorations at London 's National Gallery , the Metropolitan , the Louvre , Prado and the Uffizi , as well as the Sistine Chapel . |
| 13 | Then comes ( April 6–11 ) comes the popular Richard Harris comedy Stepping Out , set among students in a church hall tap dancing class . |