Example sentences of "[num ord] come the [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | First came the farmers and then more specialist cultivators : market gardeners , nurserymen and florists . |
| 6 | First came the banishment of pedestrians to pavements and the widening of surfaces by demolition and the infilling of watercourses . |
| 7 | First came the development of the eurodollar market in London , driven by the wish to avoid domestic banking regulations in the United States . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | First came the Yemeneeyeh , six poor men , mostly blind , proceeding two and two , and chanting mournfully , ‘ There is no God but God . ’ |
| 10 | First came the skeletons of companies occasionally led by a wounded officer , leaning on a stick . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When I first came the cleaning was more general . |
| 13 | First came the Class 56 , superficially similar to the Class 47 but with a maximum speed of 80mph and no facility for train heating . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | First comes the plasterer 's trowel or steel float , with which you actually apply the plaster to the wall . |
| 17 | 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' . |
| 18 | First comes the longue durée , ‘ in which all change is slow , a history of constant repetition , ever-recurring cycles ’ . |
| 19 | Next came the election of James Paul ( Ayr ) as Hon. |
| 20 | Next came the problem of licences to get the instruments out of Britain and into Iraq . |
| 21 | Next came the mountains , their lower slopes cloaked in rain forest which had once covered the coastal plain but was now restricted to tongues licking down the banks of the Belpan and Makaa Rivers . |
| 22 | Next came the engine , a 250hp Cummins 6-cylinder naturally-aspirated unit from a big lorry . |
| 23 | It had been a long , tiring day … first this big house to be cleaned , then the uphill trek to church and Sunday service ; next came the lunch , which took hours to prepare and only minutes to devour ; this was followed by the inevitable mountain of washing up . |
| 24 | Next came the engineers , planners , statisticians , and less important office-workers . |
| 25 | Next came the cartoon characters created by John Gilroy . |
| 26 | Next came the grafting in of the Preomnor , the second stomach seated within the chest that would let a Marine eat poisonous victuals , if need be , and nourish himself upon mere roughage . |
| 27 | Next came the Castillo de Belvier : 68 million gallons off South Africa , 1989 . |
| 28 | Next came the men 's leader , Mario . |
| 29 | Next came the football style skegs , which , with a hooked leading edge , apparently stop the air bubbles since at speed air can not flow forwards along the front facing section . |
| 30 | Next came the Iran-Iraq treaty of 1937 . |