Example sentences of "coming [conj] it did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each was required in turn to break off and tell us the advertisements were coming and it did prove hard , such was the intensity of the exchange , to sustain the intellectual commitment over commercial claims for Whiskas and options . |
| 2 | This was only his second murder in eighteen years , and he was somewhat annoyed by it , coming as it did during the best fishing of the year , and right at the time when his garden was at its peak . |
| 3 | Coming as it did from such a family — not only from Lazarus ' and Lyon 's own strenuous devotions to their faith , in which names are of the greatest significance , but also from that of Solomon Klinitsky-Klein , his maternal grandfather and his very similar tradition . |
| 4 | Mr Lawson admitted that the interest rate rise was extremely ‘ embarrassing , awkward and uncomfortable ’ , coming as it did on the eve of the Conservative Party Conference . |
| 5 | Word had already gone around about the sex sequence , and there was also some interest in the political content , coming as it did shortly after the attempts at peace in Vietnam and Nixon 's pledge to end the war . |
| 6 | It was a disagreeable story and coming as it did after the impact of the portrait it provoked in Dalgliesh a mixture of depression and foreboding which he tried to shake off as irrational . |
| 7 | Oakenfold 's version of ‘ Cloud 8 ’ was the only well executed or timely attempt ( coming as it did during last summer 's mellow months ) , and is included on the four track limited edition giveaway , ‘ The Baby Album ’ . |
| 8 | This must have been a most amazing sight , coming as it did as the climax of a much longer event staged beforehand outside Wanstead House itself . |
| 9 | It maddened Adam , his misuse of this word , which could n't of course be applied to guiding anyone on land , coming as it did from the Latin navigare and thence from navis , feminine , a ship , and agere , to drive or guide . |
| 10 | And as England found to their cost only last month , it is an ideal which still thrives on the Continent , Norway 's equaliser coming as it did from a 30-yard out-of-the-blue effort . |
| 11 | The dispute — coming as it did in the aftermath of Tyndale — served to confirm the view that the teaching force was too independent . |
| 12 | Ohly 's proposal was for an assessment by a special task force before any further substantial commitments were made in Indo-China but , coming as it did , a month after the US had made its half-a-billion-dollar commitment , it was probably too late . |
| 13 | The question , coming as it did unexpectedly at the end of her monologue , disconcerted me . |
| 14 | It was though an important win for Armagh , coming as it did after a series of disappointments prior to Christmas . |
| 15 | The UAE was reported to have reacted in a low-key manner to the Iranian takeover , coming as it did at a time when the Gulf states were hoping for improved relations with Iran . |
| 16 | President Scalfaro on July 30 described Scotti 's action as a sign that " factional interests " had been allowed to take priority , coming as it did at a time of national crisis . |
| 17 | The motion in favour of nuclear power , coming as it did from the Scottish NUM , represents a significant breakthrough in trades union thinking on energy issues . |
| 18 | This might have seemed odd , coming as it did less than a week after Franco 's bellicose public references to Gibraltar . |