Example sentences of "come the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Shirley happened to come the next day and I about it . |
| 2 | From Titron had come the first man who could withstand radiation , be it from a bomb , or in deep space . |
| 3 | A famous passage in Virgil 's Fourth Eclogue gives expression to the concept of the ‘ Eternal Return ’ : ‘ Now is come the last age of the song of Cumae ; the great line of the centuries begins anew … |
| 4 | Then came the first Shadow Cabinet meeting . |
| 5 | Then , in 1977 , came the first example of mass direct action in America . |
| 6 | In these circumstances it seemed to Napoleon III that the Entente needed a boost and so came the first essay in Court diplomacy , the state visit to England in 1855 at the request of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert . |
| 7 | Then , just as we were tying up the canoe , came the first heavy spats of rain on the leaves and with a roll of thunder the heavens opened . |
| 8 | In 1937 there came the first medical report in the Journal of the American Medical Association of the successful use of the sulphonamides in the treatment of acute gonorrhoea . |
| 9 | At seven came the first allied setback . |
| 10 | In July came the first visit from the phantom night hound . |
| 11 | Then came the first signs of recovery with the opening of his eyes and a squeeze of his wife 's hand . |
| 12 | In 1904 came the first car , and in 1920 Rover hit the headlines when its Light Six saloon raced the Blue Train Continental Express 750 miles across France — and reached Calais 20 minutes ahead of the train . |
| 13 | On 5th September 1974 came the first indication that something new and more sinister than the ‘ numbers game ’ was afoot . |
| 14 | ‘ And then came the first tragedy . |
| 15 | But as the decade wore on , there came the first rumblings that something was wrong . |
| 16 | Out of this time came the first stories of his boldness — answering back to a teacher , taking out girls , and of course the all-dazzling displays at rugby and cricket . |
| 17 | But then came the first of what proved steady and skilful resistance from Ceylon 's crack bowlers , V.S. de Kretser and Cecil Horan . |
| 18 | Resistance to his rule increased inside South Vietnam ; and in 1958 came the first ominous trickle of men and weapons from North Vietnam . |
| 19 | Gedanken was about to protest that she did go to discos and parties , and it was no big deal being a girl doing physics , but before she could open her mouth , there came the first question . |
| 20 | Er we were married three years , no children and I began to get desperate again and an anyway along came the first then came the second . |
| 21 | Next , in 1590 , came the First Set of Italian Madrigals Englished , not to the sense of the original dittie , but after the affection of the Noate by Thomas Watson , next to Spenser the earliest of the Elizabethan sonneteers ; they are nearly all by Marenzio but also include two fine settings , à 4 and à 6 , of Watson 's own ‘ This sweet and merry month of May ’ by Byrd ‘ composed after the Italian vaine ’ at the poet 's request . |
| 22 | In 1653 came the first of three books of Ayres and Dialogues by Henry Lawes ; the others followed in 1655 and 1658 , and beside them Playford 's Breefe Introduction to the Skill of Musick for Song and Viol ( 1654 ) and instrumental music . |
| 23 | His finest moment came the first time he opened the hall door to a visitor and , standing a little aside , intoned , " Follow me , sir , " before proceeding with due dignity to announce the guest at the door of the morning room . |
| 24 | A few minutes later came the first gun-fire . |
| 25 | On April Fool 's Day 1963 came the first issue of Oz . |
| 26 | And then came the first Wednesday in October — the day of the Woman 's Institute bush walk . |
| 27 | In the case of the Iranians , early in 1982 came the first references to the phenomena of attrition and the ‘ human wave ’ . |
| 28 | During the following two months came the first reports of Baghdad 's retaliation at the frontier town of Halabjah , in PUK territory , where aircraft were said to have dropped bombs containing poison gas . |
| 29 | two minutes behind came the first horse … for only the second time the wheels had won … |
| 30 | A year ago today came the first reports that publisher Robert Maxwell had fallen from his yacht to his death . |