Example sentences of "then come the [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then came the uncomfortable news that the All Blacks ' opposition in Treviso would involve some South African players . |
| 2 | Then came the terrifying crash as the coral tore the ship 's bottom out . |
| 3 | He described how they heard a plane , and then came the searing flash and tempestuous roar , and then the utter unbroken silence of the grave . |
| 4 | But then came the bad weather and the frost — they did n't allow for you being knee-deep in snow — they expected you to be where you should be . |
| 5 | Then came the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars , and it was not until the famous wine classification of 1855 that the wines of Bordeaux were established as the some of the greatest of all wines in the world many believe the greatest . |
| 6 | And then comes the hard work as , like packing your holiday case , you have to whittle down all that you would like to take — or in our case , grow — to the short list . |