Example sentences of "[num ord] come [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On January 15th came the King 's speech , announcing a full legislative programme .
2 Second comes the business expansion sector , the main source of profit improvement .
3 Second comes the immersion heater spanner , an outsize model for fitting immersion heaters in their bosses in hot water cylinders .
4 But first came a surprise .
5 First came a bowl of Heinz Spaghetti in tomato sauce , accompanied by a Jeroboam of Lutomer Riesling .
6 First came a Burney Cup defeat for the Academy schoolboys , then the Norman McGladdery suspension affair followed by defeat in the Anderson Cup final .
7 First came the decision to award Esther Rantzen a new contract worth £1.2m when the consensus is that few people can stand the sight of her .
8 First came the farmers and then more specialist cultivators : market gardeners , nurserymen and florists .
9 First came the banishment of pedestrians to pavements and the widening of surfaces by demolition and the infilling of watercourses .
10 First came the development of the eurodollar market in London , driven by the wish to avoid domestic banking regulations in the United States .
11 First came the Jeddah meeting at the beginning of August in 1990 , followed by the fruitless meeting of US Secretary of State Baker and Iraqi Foreign Minister Tareq Aziz in Geneva in January 1991 .
12 First came the Yemeneeyeh , six poor men , mostly blind , proceeding two and two , and chanting mournfully , ‘ There is no God but God . ’
13 First came the skeletons of companies occasionally led by a wounded officer , leaning on a stick .
14 When he first came the villagers wanted to get rid of him but he would n't go , and as he made himself useful they came to endure him .
15 When I first came the cleaning was more general .
16 First came the Class 56 , superficially similar to the Class 47 but with a maximum speed of 80mph and no facility for train heating .
17 First came the minstrels , yelling war songs , and when they had finished they tore off their mantles and threw them down before the Empress , saying now that they had fought for her such clothes were no longer worthy of them and would she give them new ones ?
18 A friend of mine who took part in such a march in Greenwich , Connecticut , headquarters of the Pittston Group , said that first came the airline pilots in their dark blue uniforms and gold braided hats ; then the telephone workers all dressed in red shirts ; and then the miners covered from head to toe in camouflage .
19 First comes the plasterer 's trowel or steel float , with which you actually apply the plaster to the wall .
20 Although few characters from the professions appear to influence demi-caractère dance ( their activities are usually confined to character works ) , the Navy and Army have regularly inspired choreographers. first comes the Navy' .
21 First comes the longue durée , ‘ in which all change is slow , a history of constant repetition , ever-recurring cycles ’ .
22 A new brewhouse followed ; next came a cooperage , a racking shed , a maltings , an internal railway system , new vathouses and a storehouse for fermenting vessels .
23 Next came a drum roll , followed by a wave and a thumbs-up sign from the newly-weds .
24 Next came a dish cooked to a recipe from the Royal House of Sailana , vegetables simmered in an almond and pistachio sauce , followed by aubergines stuffed with mint and coconut chutney and baked in a banana leaf .
25 Next came a pair of thick socks wrinkling about the ankles , and then what seemed to be a pair of men 's shoes .
26 Next came a litany of his material difficulties .
27 Next came a court battle in which Earl Ruby won control of the gun that his brother Jack used to kill Lee Harvey Oswald , two days after the assassin 's arrest .
28 Next came a leg of Szechuan duck , which our attendant shredded at the table with all the panache of a French waiter filleting a sole .
29 Next came a SCOTVEC edit , to bring all developments into a house style , which itself was designed to reflect current UK developments .
30 Next came a terrace of three three-storey houses , in the first lived the Salisburys , the name always amused me when I was small .
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