Example sentences of "come the first [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Resistance to his rule increased inside South Vietnam ; and in 1958 came the first ominous trickle of men and weapons from North Vietnam . |
| 2 | ‘ But in 1973 came the first major oil shock . |
| 3 | At seven came the first allied setback . |
| 4 | In 1937 there came the first medical report in the Journal of the American Medical Association of the successful use of the sulphonamides in the treatment of acute gonorrhoea . |
| 5 | Then , just as we were tying up the canoe , came the first heavy spats of rain on the leaves and with a roll of thunder the heavens opened . |
| 6 | These sculptures must date from the middle or later seventh century , and from much the same time come the first carved fragments plausibly associated with a Doric temple . |