Example sentences of "[was/were] [conj] it come " in BNC.

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1 Thus one conspirator in the 1961 Great Heavy Electrical Industry conspiracy said : ‘ We understand this was what the company wanted us to do ’ , and another reported that , ‘ It ( the instruction ) came to me from my superior … but my impression was that it came to him from higher up ’ .
2 The sadness was that it came from the killing of Harry .
3 What was striking about the instant response to Stanley 's emancipation proposals in 1833 was that it came from Howick , until recently in charge , at the Colonial Office , of the emancipation question , and that his strongest dissent arose from the failure of the plan to chart a move as soon as possible directly from slavery to free labour without bothering with an apprenticeship stage .
4 Well I do n't know what make it was but it came from the house , the furnishing company of Union Street , Plymouth I ca n't remember the shop .
5 ‘ The reason it was changed was because it came soft . ’
6 And there was when it came on , in the afternoon there was this tremendous very loud roar !
7 That last one was when it came down on him was n't it ?
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