Example sentences of "but when [pers pn] come [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the shadow between the houses Owen could not see what it was but when they came up to it he saw that it was a man . |
| 2 | We can consider reasonably clear cut examples of the use of local landmarks and of home stimuli , but when we come on to a possible map sense we shall move into one of the more unsettled areas of the science . |
| 3 | ‘ As students at Edinburgh College of Art , we always said we would buy a castle and do it up , but when it came around to it most of them had been restored , but Lachlan knew of Ballone Castle near Portmahomack which was still derelict and persuaded the farmer to sell it . ’ |
| 4 | But when it came down to it , it was the people who did n't really know Lancashire who found Walter Machin impressive . |
| 5 | But when it comes down to it , the V8 is more a car for drivers than passengers . |
| 6 | MACAULEY Culkin 's Kevin may be a dab hand with a booby trap but when it comes down to straightforward , grimy-faced scallywaggery , there are a couple of Irish lads in Into The West who could give him a run for his money . |
| 7 | But when it comes down to it , they 're just another extension of the posing and preening junk-culture metal showing now on MTV heavy rotation . |
| 8 | But when it comes down to it , Oswaldston is n't the sort of place one visits , is it ? what ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You might be a whizz at your job , you might have the charisma of ten men , but when it comes down to normal decent human values you 're nothing . |
| 10 | Great sporting moments have many facets but when it comes down to thrills and spill and leaving the pulses racing , the National is hard to beat . |
| 11 | But when it comes down to it , they 're just another extension of the posing and preening junk-culture metal showing now on MTV heavy rotation . |
| 12 | They wanted to keep them happy , they let them carry on with their religion , it did n't interest them but when it comes down to serious things like killing erm political agitators , the Romans wanted to deal with that themselves . |
| 13 | Before deciding to stock any wine , Winemark look extensively at the quality and reliability of the winery , but when it comes down to it , it 's the taste that makes the difference . |
| 14 | So the ideal as far as federal government is concerned is they , they devise policy guidelines and they provide financial inducements to states to implement various programmes but when it comes down to it they run up against the rock of the constitution and the constitution says that the states derive their authority from this sacred document and they are not to be tampered with and the consequence is that America has , not only a federal government , but fifty state governments er and those state governments are large enterprises which enjoy wide initiative and they contributors , contribute to the divi diversity of the United States as a political system . |
| 15 | But when it comes down to it , women protect women . ’ |
| 16 | But when it comes down to it you ca n't do it can you ? |
| 17 | It should be a close race on paper , but when it comes down to it we 'll see what happens . |
| 18 | There was very little social life on board , but when you come home to Lowestoft , they 'd go to the Suffolk , and treat one another , or to the Stone jug , a little farther up the road . |
| 19 | During the death story Tin Roof tells Someone that they do n't ‘ move in time ’ ( 133/329 ) , but when he comes back to life , Larry feels as if he ‘ live[s] backwards ’ ( 104/300 ) and hears conversations ‘ in waves that run backwards through time ’ ( 103/299 ) . |
| 20 | But when she came up to me after that third seminar I was so shocked and embarrassed that I could barely speak . |
| 21 | There was no one in the stable or the yard , but when she came close to the back door she could hear voices from the kitchen . |