Example sentences of "then came the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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Soviet leaders renounced what they considered the czar 's unequal treaties and subsequently the Cossack officers were withdrawn from Iran . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Then came the perennial problem — do I put the neckband on next , or the front bands . |
| 4 | Then came the first Shadow Cabinet meeting . |
| 5 | Then came the first signs of recovery with the opening of his eyes and a squeeze of his wife 's hand . |
| 6 | ‘ And then came the first tragedy . |
| 7 | But then came the first of what proved steady and skilful resistance from Ceylon 's crack bowlers , V.S. de Kretser and Cecil Horan . |
| 8 | And then came the first Wednesday in October — the day of the Woman 's Institute bush walk . |
| 9 | Then came the first truly affordable home computer with serious wordprocessing , the Amstrad PCW8256 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Then came the two saviours of modern Aegina , tourists and that prince of nuts , the phistiki , alias the pistachio . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Then came the horrifying death of Piers Courage at Zandvoort , when despite many a brave effort , Courage died in his flaming car . |
| 15 | And then came the Sixties , stamping a new and distinctive bootprint on the fashion scene . |
| 16 | The travellers ' spirit wilted as loser followed loser , then came the final degradation . |
| 17 | And then came the second Fleet Street sensation . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , ’ Miss Honey said , ‘ then came the second tragedy . |
| 19 | Then came the second chorus of ‘ the referee 's a German ’ , only this time it was much louder . |
| 20 | Forty-five first year lambs were put below , then came the muscular double-fleeced adults . |
| 21 | Then came the International Section : an Indian family on the back of a lorry with a stove , the mother cooking real curry that you could smell in the air ; an Irish group , parents with bagpipes and children dressed as leprechauns ; a steel band from Trinidad . |
| 22 | But then came the only error of the afternoon from the impressive Awford , when his mistimed challenge sent Nicol sprawling . |
| 23 | But then came the awful night when the Station Master was waiting for Peter in the station yard . |
| 24 | Then came the everlasting skies of summer where the sun hung like a silver cauldron and sent meteors of sparkle among the ice . |
| 25 | Then came the ill-fated £1.5 billion merger with British Home Stores in 1986 . |
| 26 | Then came the forward rush to the Barbarians ' line as lock Phil Davies , prop John Davies and flanker Stuart Davies helped push the score to the half-century mark . |
| 27 | But then came the springy , difficult to crush and easy-to-use filter matting . |
| 28 | Then came the blustering denials of any intention to act dishonestly , which did little to help their cause though many were sincere . |
| 29 | But we opened on Sunday and did quite well , and then came the late rush , which was extraordinary : tills were ringing frantically . |
| 30 | In the very early years , people were really exploring ; then came the early botanists who identified what they saw and made lists ; later came the ecologists who related plants to their environment ; by the 1980s conservation of the flora came to the fore . |