Example sentences of "it [vb past] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I never expected the reaction it got coming from me . |
| 2 | Now it seemed to come and go on the wind . |
| 3 | It seemed to come from above me . |
| 4 | It seemed to come from a bin outside the bank . |
| 5 | Would it be false if I could actually ‘ throw my voice ’ so that it seemed to come from somewhere else ? |
| 6 | She could hear the rush of water , but it seemed to come not from one point but from all around her . |
| 7 | It seemed to come from another world of reference , an older , ordinary world , of platitude and cliché , of pattern and familiar family ties , a world that she had thought they had never entered , for many good reasons never entered : and now here was Charles himself , invoking its terms , as though it had been there always , as though they had always inhabited its domain . |
| 8 | The music sounded so faint and far-off it seemed to come from somewhere streets away , a voice from a vanished Alexandria : |
| 9 | Then they were aware of something , out there beyond the benches , which they could sense moving silently in the mist , and though he strained to see it he could not quite catch the thing in one place , for it seemed to come ant go , larger than the bench and bin , looming nearer but not quite seen , dark and grey and pointing to the sky . |
| 10 | It seemed to come from nowhere , it transformed him utterly and it invariably caused her anger against him to feel quite suddenly totally inappropriate . |
| 11 | The full impact of it seemed to come from the roof , and was so strong that she jerked up in bed . |
| 12 | It seemed to come from the Market Cross . |
| 13 | He says it seemed to come from no-where . |
| 14 | With a roar , it began to come their way , searching with its closed dead eyes set in the grotesque moving head . |
| 15 | Elsewhere in that issue , with the aid of New Statesman contributors like Alex Cockburn and Tom Nairn , Oz provided a parody of that magazine , as it stumbled to come to terms with 1968 . |
| 16 | Come to think of it , that 's really been the biggest change in music since it started coming on ‘ gramophone records ’ . |
| 17 | We only knew for certain that there was something strange afoot when we heard the sounds of a train being marshalled and it started coming towards the hostel , what is more terrifying was that it was coming on a non-existent track ! |
| 18 | It started coming back after a weekend seeing Darren . |
| 19 | It started coming freezing |
| 20 | ‘ It kept coming through the sun roof and at one point I heard the roof caving in , ’ he said from his hospital bed . |
| 21 | What trade it did came from locals , for travellers at this season were few . |
| 22 | ‘ Jill Jones 's album had been on the shelf for so long that when it did come out , it sounded old , ’ she reveals . |
| 23 | They would definitely , at least , break even , and it did come to bear a few times . |
| 24 | Much impressed with my narrow escape , Dad carried the object downstairs on top of the sand in the fire bucket — it did come in handy after all — and we sat around gazing at it , drinking the inevitable tea and storing up this tale to pass on to all our friends and relations . |
| 25 | Despite George 's vigilance the snow , when it did come , took him unawares . |
| 26 | After all , when it did come it initially avoided these political problems by the simple device of locating the determinants of crime in the individual 's make-up ( and for that reason the early version of positivism has been a firm favourite with rulers and governments ever since ) . |
| 27 | For reasons which are both obscure and immaterial , there was considerable delay in this report coming to the attention of the local authority having the care of J. When in January 1992 it did come to the authority 's notice , Dr. I. was asked to provide a further up to date report and in addition the authority obtained a second opinion from Dr. R. , a consultant paediatric neurologist with a London teaching hospital . |
| 28 | It need not , however , have had the significance it acquired in tenth-century documents when it did come to express claims to a kingship of all Anglo-Saxons . |
| 29 | Of course when the baths were made there were ladies days and gents days , mixed bathing was considered not the thing in these days , but it did come in in the twenty or the , or the late twenties . |
| 30 | ‘ It did come off rather well , did n't it ? |