Example sentences of "then come the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then came the Government , determined to tax it . |
| 2 | ‘ Then came the day when I snapped off my Marigolds , flung them in the marbleised pedal bin — well it was n't marbleised then , but it is now — and set off on this glittering career . |
| 3 | Then came the day of the anti-hero . |
| 4 | Then came the day in the year 1482 when Elizabeth Mowbray received a letter from the king requiring her presence with her daughter at court . |
| 5 | Then came the day when his own two sons came home and asked their mother ‘ when their Daddy was going to be killed , because all racing-driver daddies got killed ’ . |
| 6 | Then came the day of joy when doctors at Newcastle upon Tyne General Hospital said they did not expect any more problems . |
| 7 | Then came the day when she explained about Yelton . |
| 8 | And then came the day when he came home to find her standing by the door with her bags packed . |
| 9 | Then came the day that bought a video camera and filmed me ironing . |
| 10 | Then came the Princess of Wales on his right . |
| 11 | Then came the changes including the innovative reorganisation of production into small teams on the shop floor . |
| 12 | Then came the order from one of the station staff for us to do so , and there was really pushing and place seeking . |
| 13 | Then came the court of the women , which men could also enter , but which was as close to the sanctuary as women could come . |
| 14 | The guests having been selected , there then came the problem of allocating rooms , since those who were jealous of their rank or susceptible to imaginary slights set great store by the nature of their accommodation within the Palace . |
| 15 | Then came the problems of recessions , another war and the changing ideas of politicians no longer committed to nationwide public transport . |
| 16 | Then came the Queen , now the Queen Mum , who said how thrilled she was to speak to Francis . |
| 17 | Then came the thought that Mrs Maybury had something vital to tell her , something which would help her to find Elaine — or Lilian ; it was difficult not to think of her as Elaine . |
| 18 | Then came the consignment of houseplants for the offices , tradescantia and sanseveria and ficus elasica that were doomed from the start to dehydration and ultimately to have their pots serve as repositories for cigarette ash . |
| 19 | Then came the colour experiments and the famous Godess series , in which actresses and society ladies posed as various Deities before the technicolour lens of Madame Yevonde . |
| 20 | And then came the explosion of passions . |
| 21 | Then came the Hüskers split and what have been rather puzzlingly referred to as ‘ the wilderness years ’ . |
| 22 | When … our Soviet rivals recognised they could not match us … and as their own system indisputably failed the Soviet people even as it abused them — then came the turning point . ’ |
| 23 | Then came the turning point of the match . |
| 24 | Then came the families themselves . |
| 25 | Then came the William IV public house , an old two-storied building noted for its sideline of hiring handcarts for tuppence an hour . |
| 26 | Then came the call from Sergio Leone . |
| 27 | Then came The Competition , from the set of which filtered reports of tantrums , culminating in Dreyfuss hating the finished film so much that he refused to promote it . |
| 28 | Then came the longing for her mother 's warmth and comfort . |
| 29 | Then came the Reverends Brown and Cope , and it was the latter who in 1877 witnessed the radical and excessive restoration of the ancient whitewashed church to produce what from a distance looks almost totally Victorian with its new little lead-covered spire and shingled bell turret . |
| 30 | Then came the thunder of the fuel tanks exploding . |