Example sentences of "came the [num ord] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On April Fool 's Day 1963 came the first issue of Oz . |
| 2 | Out of this time came the first stories of his boldness — answering back to a teacher , taking out girls , and of course the all-dazzling displays at rugby and cricket . |
| 3 | During the following two months came the first reports of Baghdad 's retaliation at the frontier town of Halabjah , in PUK territory , where aircraft were said to have dropped bombs containing poison gas . |
| 4 | Then came the first signs of recovery with the opening of his eyes and a squeeze of his wife 's hand . |
| 5 | Later that year came the first signs of health trouble when he was taken to hospital with a heart problem . |
| 6 | In July came the first visit from the phantom night hound . |
| 7 | Next , in 1590 , came the First Set of Italian Madrigals Englished , not to the sense of the original dittie , but after the affection of the Noate by Thomas Watson , next to Spenser the earliest of the Elizabethan sonneteers ; they are nearly all by Marenzio but also include two fine settings , à 4 and à 6 , of Watson 's own ‘ This sweet and merry month of May ’ by Byrd ‘ composed after the Italian vaine ’ at the poet 's request . |
| 8 | In the case of the Iranians , early in 1982 came the first references to the phenomena of attrition and the ‘ human wave ’ . |
| 9 | And then came the first Wednesday in October — the day of the Woman 's Institute bush walk . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Then , in 1977 , came the first example of mass direct action in America . |
| 12 | With it came the first episode of Merseyside 's very own soap Brookside . |
| 13 | Then came the second chorus of ‘ the referee 's a German ’ , only this time it was much louder . |
| 14 | there was a communicating door in one corner of the room and from behind it came the third movement of the Mozart , which was working itself up to that frantic minor-key Turkish routine which I 've never thought a good enough ending for such a great beginning ; but then that complaint went for just about everything in my life . |
| 15 | Then came the next tier of management . |
| 16 | As you can imagine there were a lot of champagne bottles opened that night , but perhaps the most pleasurable glass of all came the next morning from the bottle in Peter Wycherley 's office at the headquarters of Dunlop Slazenger who are my main sponsors . |
| 17 | From transporting valuables came the next step to transporting passengers to Europe by ocean liner . |