Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] it came [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was his first experience of such blatant prejudice and it came as a shock . |
| 2 | And I rung for an ambulance and it came and we took her up and sat with her , and they kept her in for four days . |
| 3 | She was prepared for the move when it came and followed Claudia Hamilton and the other ladies upstairs . |
| 4 | ‘ We 're delighted to get the award but it came as quite a surprise , ’ said business director . |
| 5 | As he says in his autobiography , ‘ I had to take every race as it came and just try to win it because whatever happened to Niki — and the Ferrari was not relevant to me at that point . |
| 6 | ‘ But I decided to take my chance when it came and make it hard for Paul to get back . ’ |
| 7 | A running and ringing in the darkening afternoon , urgent voices on the phone and the grind and clang of the lift as it came and went . |
| 8 | Moyola looked the more likely to get the winning score on the resumption and it came when Ruddock , who was unlucky earlier with a header which struck the Tobermore upright , sent in from the wing in the 79th minute and their big outside left Calderwood was on hand to head to the net . |