Example sentences of "[adv] came the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To sort of make out s make sure you 've got this and that so you 're ready for the confinement and er But they only came the last minute when when they were the ma mams were expecting their babies . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The door it adorned was open and from inside came the familiar sound of a photocopier on print and collate . |
| 4 | Suddenly from below came the unmistakable sound of gunfire , the roar of a shotgun sounding along with a short sharp burst of a machine gun . |
| 5 | A few minutes later came the first gun-fire . |
| 6 | Later came the acute attacks of asthma — and the need for Caroline to pummel me ( it 's hilarious only in retrospect ! ) as I fought for breath . |
| 7 | Somewhat later came the present owner , John Matta , who now takes great pleasure in greeting Citalia guests and welcomes them on arrival with a gift of the wonderful Chianti Classico from his excellent cellars and offers them a typical Tuscan dinner at a reasonable price , which is taken most weeks in the castle 's impressive banqueting hall . |
| 8 | For instance , some of the poem 's ideas came from Milton 's Paradise Lost , some came from Bruce 's account of the source and fountains of the Blue Nile in Abyssinia , whence also came the Abyssinian maid playing on her dulcimer . |
| 9 | two minutes behind came the first horse … for only the second time the wheels had won … |
| 10 | Now came the key play of the king of spades . |
| 11 | Now came the difficult part : telling Patterson I was borrowing his car . |
| 12 | Three weeks ago came the ominous phone call . |
| 13 | Claire recovered but when Allitt was again left alone with her almost immediately came the inevitable words ‘ She 's gone ’ , he told the jury . |
| 14 | The events of the week-end seemed to recede , to become locked away , as if I had dreamt them ; and yet as I walked there came the strangest feeling , compounded of the early hour , the absolute solitude , and what had happened , of having entered a myth ; a knowledge of what it was like physically , moment by moment , to have been young and ancient , a Ulysses on his way to meet Circe , a Theseus on his journey to Crete , an Oedipus still searching for his destiny . |
| 15 | While we were talking , from outside in the courtyard there came the sudden sound of excited shouting . |
| 16 | Then came the Russian revolution ; late in 1917 , the new Soviet leaders renounced what they considered the czar 's unequal treaties and subsequently the Cossack officers were withdrawn from Iran . |
| 17 | Then came the stabbing incident which forced Monica to cancel so much of her programme for this year but we are now optimistic that she will have fully recovered before our tournament . ’ |
| 18 | Then came the perennial problem — do I put the neckband on next , or the front bands . |
| 19 | Then came the first signs of recovery with the opening of his eyes and a squeeze of his wife 's hand . |
| 20 | And then came the first Wednesday in October — the day of the Woman 's Institute bush walk . |
| 21 | Then came the first Shadow Cabinet meeting . |
| 22 | ‘ And then came the first tragedy . |
| 23 | Then came the two incidents that were to echo down the long ages of Elf history and set the stage for the great dramas that were to follow . |
| 24 | Then came the two saviours of modern Aegina , tourists and that prince of nuts , the phistiki , alias the pistachio . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Then came the horrifying death of Piers Courage at Zandvoort , when despite many a brave effort , Courage died in his flaming car . |
| 28 | The travellers ' spirit wilted as loser followed loser , then came the final degradation . |
| 29 | Then came the second chorus of ‘ the referee 's a German ’ , only this time it was much louder . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , ’ Miss Honey said , ‘ then came the second tragedy . |