Example sentences of "then come the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then came the first signs of recovery with the opening of his eyes and a squeeze of his wife 's hand . |
| 2 | And then came the first Wednesday in October — the day of the Woman 's Institute bush walk . |
| 3 | Then came the two saviours of modern Aegina , tourists and that prince of nuts , the phistiki , alias the pistachio . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Then came the horrifying death of Piers Courage at Zandvoort , when despite many a brave effort , Courage died in his flaming car . |
| 7 | Then came the second chorus of ‘ the referee 's a German ’ , only this time it was much louder . |
| 8 | But then came the only error of the afternoon from the impressive Awford , when his mistimed challenge sent Nicol sprawling . |
| 9 | Then came the everlasting skies of summer where the sun hung like a silver cauldron and sent meteors of sparkle among the ice . |
| 10 | Then came the forward rush to the Barbarians ' line as lock Phil Davies , prop John Davies and flanker Stuart Davies helped push the score to the half-century mark . |
| 11 | Then came the blustering denials of any intention to act dishonestly , which did little to help their cause though many were sincere . |
| 12 | Then came the real crux of the matter , which was the new requirement to qualify for a vote . |
| 13 | Then came the startling developments in Eastern Europe and a British response which has been much admired . |
| 14 | Then came the delicious moment of the aperitivo , that sense of the whole city beginning to wind down towards lunch , which I took at any one of a dozen excellent and welcoming restaurants where I was sure to be hailed and called over to one table or another . |
| 15 | Then came the next tier of management . |
| 16 | Then came the dramatic arrest of Roderick last August when the Royal Navy frigate Argonaut intercepted his yacht 150 miles south west of Gibraltar . |
| 17 | Then came the post-war years of austerity , the food and fuel shortages . |
| 18 | And then came the unmistakable sound of a shot . |
| 19 | Then came the inevitable change of tack . |
| 20 | Then came the true report about the forced labour camps , the concentration camps , and the cruelties of the Germans in Europe . |
| 21 | Then came the crowning blow for France and for the Catholics in Scotland . |
| 22 | Then comes the greatest loss of all : that of their marriage partner . |
| 23 | Then comes the second part of the double whammy — after say two years BA would announce that it was withdrawing from Belfast City Airport in order to consolidate their operations at Belfast International whose superior facilities interface more readily with their corporate image ( or similar doublespeak ) . |
| 24 | Then comes the slapping sound of the belt-joining clips whipping round the iron pulleys , getting faster and faster as the whole machine gathers speed . |
| 25 | At foundation level is the Romanesque palace built by Duke Soběslav ( 1125–40 ) ; then comes the Gothic building with its Přemysl arcades of the 13C ; next follows the palace of Charles IV , and finally the magnificent rooms created between 1477 and 1511 under Vladislav Jagiello . |
| 26 | Then comes the crowning glory of Frank 's act , as he peels off his raincoat to reveal a smart suit underneath . |
| 27 | Then comes the orogenic phase with its folding and thrusting , its metamorphism and its granite emplacement , passing into a phase of block faulting . |