Example sentences of "came the [num ord] [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 In 1979 , however , came the second major oil price increase of the decade , followed by a general depression in the West .
7 Between 1210 and 1215 John of Wales made a new compilation out of Gilbert and Alan 's work ( which came , therefore , to be called the Compilatio Secunda , though in fact it followed the Compilatio Tertia ) and in 1216 came the last private collection of the reign , the Compilatio Quarta of John the Teuton .
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