Example sentences of "come the first [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Then came the first signs of recovery with the opening of his eyes and a squeeze of his wife 's hand . |
| 4 | Later that year came the first signs of health trouble when he was taken to hospital with a heart problem . |
| 5 | In the case of the Iranians , early in 1982 came the first references to the phenomena of attrition and the ‘ human wave ’ . |
| 6 | But as the decade wore on , there came the first rumblings that something was wrong . |