Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [conj] it come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The engine whistled as it came into the wide bay of railway lines beside the colliery , where rows of trucks stood in harbour ( 11 ) . |
| 2 | This is the utility package to beat when it comes to value for money . |
| 3 | So your personality sets very broad limits , but whatever its nature it leaves you with plenty of room to manoeuvre when it comes to ways of behaving . |
| 4 | ‘ Laura always understood the importance of a brilliant idea to entice customers into the shop , even if their courage failed when it came to buying . |
| 5 | If your courage fails when it comes to devising and playing music try collaborating with a fellow teacher . |
| 6 | An insurance broker explained : ‘ Performance is n't the only thing assessed when it comes to car insurance . |
| 7 | I 've a long way to go when it comes to these explanations . |
| 8 | It often happens in rapid speech that a nasal consonant disappears when it comes between a vowel and another consonant ( for example , this may happen to the in ‘ front ’ : when this happens the preceding vowel becomes nasalised ( some of the air escapes through the nose ) . |
| 9 | He was leaning down , his spear arm back , the gleaming bronze blade wavering as it came towards her . |
| 10 | The gold was very fine , and , when minted , affected the currency : the Company issued a guinea coin to pay its dividends and had it specially stamped with an elephant to show that it came from Africa . |
| 11 | Stop that sniggering down there in the typing pool — what do you suppose the spellchecker in Microsoft Corp 's Word word processor suggests when it comes to Pentium and does n't recognise it ? |
| 12 | The man who had hunted down countless villains on the screen crumbled when it came to punishing a little white dimpled ball measuring 1.68 inches in diameter . |
| 13 | Beaverbrook said that it came from Henderson ; Balfour said that it came from Bonar Law ; Law 's biographer said that it came from Balfour ; and Crewe said that it came from Montagu and Derby . |