Example sentences of "came the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Morning , Alf , ’ came the shouted response from opposite . |
| 2 | Fringing this stunning awareness came the long-forgotten knowledge of status . |
| 3 | ‘ Good , ’ came the terse reply . |
| 4 | Then , as Winter storms abated , came the crabbing season and the pattern of the Looe seasons began all over again . |
| 5 | ‘ But on a much smaller scale , is n't it ? ’ came the cut-glass tone . |
| 6 | With the growth in industry there was also a significant development of trade , particularly in the early Tudor period , and with it came the increasing dominance of London in the English economy . |
| 7 | ‘ There is no need to ask which pupil is responsible for this , ’ came the familiar voice from inside the bucket . |
| 8 | The door it adorned was open and from inside came the familiar sound of a photocopier on print and collate . |
| 9 | From the darkness between the semi-detached houses across the street came the familiar figure of Jack Stone . |
| 10 | But when war came the persistent pedal-point of coalitionism sounded all the louder for the sudden silence of the party truce . |
| 11 | Periodically through the dust and the rutted mud came the laden pedlar , on his feet or the back of a donkey ; and from his strapped load presently spilled the trifling , precious wares of his trade-the cheap gloves and laces , the toys , trinkets and gee-gaws , the lengths of material — and , most important of all for our purposes here , the ballad sheets , broadsides and booklets that brought news of the wider world and stories and verse to give pleasure round the hearth in the long winter evenings . |
| 12 | Just as rabbits were imported from France , so too came the modern rabbit plague — myxomatosis . |
| 13 | The travellers ' spirit wilted as loser followed loser , then came the final degradation . |
| 14 | ‘ Till then , Master Clerk , ’ came the brazen reply . |
| 15 | ‘ Opposing factions are at work , alas , and I fear an uprising , ’ came the daunting reply . |
| 16 | First came the clashing sound of stone against stone and the resounding thud of boulders dropped to the ground ; then the recurrent frantic yelping . |
| 17 | " Well , " came the hesitant answer , I 'm finding it very difficult here . |
| 18 | ‘ Shame on you , ’ came the bantering reply , ‘ not to know one of your own local poets . |
| 19 | From outside the window came the shrill piping sound of the juniors playing netball . |
| 20 | Athelstan was sure that they all looked his way but again came the shrill bray of the trumpets . |
| 21 | First came the disappointing news that House of Fraser is to close its branch of Binns in the town . |
| 22 | Came the sad morning when I had to say goodbye to the crimson walls , white statues , giant mirrors and piped music of O'Brien 's Hotel . |
| 23 | It was not long after that evening there came the sad news that Herr Bremann had shot himself in a train between Hamburg and Berlin . |
| 24 | Then came the terrible sense of disbelief and at last the dawning realization that she would never be held in his embrace , breathe in the scent of his cigars or hear his kindly voice ever again . |
| 25 | ‘ Then , as a thunderbolt , came the terrible catastrophe of 1914 , and progress changed into destruction . ’ |
| 26 | Then came the terrible accident to the Turkish Airlines DC-10 in the forest of Ermenonville near Paris in which 346 people lost their lives . |
| 27 | ‘ Mm … mm … me , sir , ’ came the timid reply . |
| 28 | ‘ Ye-es , s-sir , ’ came the timid reply . |
| 29 | ‘ He 's gone , ’ came the disquieting response . |
| 30 | But there came the disquieting thought that my opinion did n't matter . |