Example sentences of "came the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And up on the screen came the familiar images : young women water-skiing past the Saint-Georges , farmers in the Bekaa , the great cedar trees of Bsharre . |
| 3 | Then came the blustering denials of any intention to act dishonestly , which did little to help their cause though many were sincere . |
| 4 | Along with the name came the Servite Fathers who had officiated at the old church . |
| 5 | Later came the acute attacks of asthma — and the need for Caroline to pummel me ( it 's hilarious only in retrospect ! ) as I fought for breath . |
| 6 | On top of this came the sundry depredations of military and civilian authorities desperate to feed the armed forces and urban population in the face of totally inadequate harvests . |
| 7 | Then came the everlasting skies of summer where the sun hung like a silver cauldron and sent meteors of sparkle among the ice . |
| 8 | Then came the two saviours of modern Aegina , tourists and that prince of nuts , the phistiki , alias the pistachio . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Then came the first signs of recovery with the opening of his eyes and a squeeze of his wife 's hand . |
| 13 | Later that year came the first signs of health trouble when he was taken to hospital with a heart problem . |
| 14 | In the case of the Iranians , early in 1982 came the first references to the phenomena of attrition and the ‘ human wave ’ . |
| 15 | But as the decade wore on , there came the first rumblings that something was wrong . |
| 16 | Kate Melville and Sue d'Argy Smith , whose daughters left the Church , as so many do , just before they became nubile , each took a hand and gave it a sharp pull , and over their heads came the long arms of Gordon the Bachelor , whose fingers stroked my hair , as countless other key personnel in the body of Christendom , South Wimbledon , stroked , shoved , pulled and all but carried me towards the stage on which I was supposed to pour out the secrets of my heart . |
| 17 | Then , finally , came the real women rock stars — Grace Slick and Janis Joplin . |
| 18 | They had four sons ( the eldest of whom died in 1895 ) and by the second , Charles , came the five grandsons who as a team continued the family firm until it was sold in 1965 to the Hawker Siddeley Group . |
| 19 | Far below London in size came the provincial capitals , the cities of Norwich , Bristol , York , Exeter , Newcastle upon Tyne and perhaps Salisbury and Coventry , each of which began to recover from the doldrums of the late-medieval recession during the middle years of Elizabeth 's reign . |
| 20 | Above the town Juntas , and chosen originally from them , came the Provincial Juntas . |
| 21 | After Cleveland came the 1989 Children Act . |
| 22 | From the seminar came the following suggestions : |
| 23 | In June came the Olympic Trials at Crystal Palace . |
| 24 | From one of the other rooms came the harsh sounds of Guns'N'Roses , the heavy guitar making the walls vibrate . |
| 25 | Through open windows or balcony doors came the mingled sounds of pots clattering and televisions blaring , an indication that most families were having their evening meal . |
| 26 | To the centre of attention came the little nations of Siberia , old relatives of American indians . |
| 27 | As it was , alongside the battering ram of Scottish public opinion came the well-directed arrows of Charter 88 's Democracy Day to force the key questions of liberalising and decentralising the governance of Britain on to the political map . |
| 28 | Then came the post-war years of austerity , the food and fuel shortages . |
| 29 | Take Ventura County , whence came the 12 jurors — six men , six women , six Republicans , six Democrats , 10 white , one Hispanic , one Asian-American , eight having served in the army — who acquitted the cops . |
| 30 | Zina Garrison , the beaten Wimbledon finalist last summer , lost in the first round , but not much of consequence occurred until Sanchez-Vicario toppled Mary Joe Fernandez in the quarter finals — and then came the heavy matches . |