Example sentences of "when [pron] come to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She supplies the book 's hasty conclusion after the death at Lydiard Constantine of Philip — a partial picture of one side of the Battersea Grammar School Edward : At this point the people of Abercorran House — even Jessie and Aurelius- and the dogs that stretched out in death like blessedness under the sun , and the pigeons that courted and were courted in the yard and on the roof , all suddenly retreat from me when I come to that Spring in memory ; a haze of ghostly , shimmering silver veils them ; without Philip they are as people in a story whose existence I can not prove . |
| 2 | But when I came to this country … |
| 3 | I can not give over any of the powers that I , as a Member of Parliament , elected by the citizens of Aldridge-Brownhills — and each of us elected by our respective constituents — was given when I came to this Parliament . |
| 4 | I had no intention of marrying early when I came to this town . |
| 5 | You chose very well , I used to get really nervous when I came to Chinese restaurants , I never knew what to choose . |
| 6 | Well that 's like er tarred rope that 's what it was and er used to put a piece through the wire every foot and when you come to six feet there 'd be a piece of leather , cut in cut one piece of leather . |
| 7 | When you come to that particular page . |
| 8 | When you come to internal democracy and how much , say , the pupils have , I agree with Bob that is a very tricky one and certainly you ca n't just transplant erm democracy onto what is really a rather authoritarian system , you 'd have to prepare and train pupils much more than we do and what I think is the most dangerous thing is playing at democracy which I am sure we should not do in schools . |
| 9 | So when you come to discontinuous |
| 10 | When you come to detailed programme planning , you need variety and balance and , if you have a great deal to get through and a concentrated message to communicate , you still have to break it up and give people a chance to relax their brains as well as their bodies . |
| 11 | We shall have four-yearly conventions … you can drop your resolutions and buy balloons ; because that is all you will be able to release when you come to these conventions . ’ |
| 12 | When you come to smaller areas ( around the shoulder blades for instance ) change to thumbs and two middle fingers , but do not pinch the flesh . |
| 13 | When you came to those two meetings at Oulton Park you were wearing school uniform ! ’ |
| 14 | But when she came to one edge of the paving slabs … she tripped and fell ; and it was common ground that there was a difference in height between the concrete and the paving slab of an inch and a half … |
| 15 | When we come to civil society , though , the possibilities for a much wider group of people are rather different . |
| 16 | The point of these examples is not to underestimate the difficulties of social relations and cultural access in these types of cultural technique , but to show , by contrast , the qualitative difference when we come to such material systems as writing . |
| 17 | I hope that , when we come to that part of the Bill in Committee , the Minister will assure us that the association has been consulted and its fears allayed . |
| 18 | In the same , well no , we 'll deal with that detail when we come to that . |
| 19 | One of the accusations used and levelled against er against Christianity against the , the evangelical message , against things like the , the mission of Graham and , and others is that it , it does n't meet the needs the , the material needs of people but if you deal with the persons spiritual needs , if their sins are forgiven , those problems that are causing the material problem , it 's amazing how there are dealt with as well , the best way to sober up a person , the best way to deal with a person who 's an alcoholic , the best way to deal with a person who is a drug addict , the best way to deal with a person who , who commits adultery is not by telling them the wrongs of those things , it 's not by trying to , to , to do , to , to , you know , to , to counsel them it 's presenting the gospel allowing Jesus Christ to come into their lives and to forgive them , that will make the person sober quicker than all the counselling in the world and Paul says I brought you the most important the fundamental thing , that Christ died for our sins Paul again when he 's writing to the Romans in chapter five and verse eight he says but God demonstrates his own love towards us , in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us so God did in Jesus Christ what we could n't do for ourselves , so all of you have sin , so all of my sin , and he came and he died on the cross and as he was dying there was that transmit there , for he was n't dying for his own sin buy he was dying for your sin and for mine , it was all piled on him and so when we except what Christ has done , when we come to that place and yes I believe that you died for me , |
| 20 | I further question the policy erm which , erm just mentioned , the average salary issue is that we want , erm that 's , that 's gon na cost us a million pounds next year , but we are doing it , so there 's a million pounds in growth in everybody 's er budget and basically everybody 's budget when we come to later . |
| 21 | When we come to everyday crystalline materials , however , there is one more link in the argument . |
| 22 | However , when we come to more details considerations — such as exactly where this ‘ golden age ’ is to be located in real historical time — then we are confronted with such a disorderly jumble of datemarks and vague historical allusions as to allow for wide margins of disagreement even among dedicated ‘ law-and-order ’ enthusiasts . |
| 23 | Fortunately , both those clauses enjoy the protection of unanimous voting or could be changed when they came to practical application into law . |
| 24 | The thousands of miles of new hedgerows in the Midland countryside , when they came to full growth after a generation , added enormously to the bird population , especially with the extermination of the larger hawks and kites as pests , a process that is abundantly recorded in the church-wardens ' accounts or the field-reeves ' books of Midland villages . |
| 25 | But the fact was that when it came to practical jokes , he regarded anybody as fair game , from the most fleeting acquaintance to the dearest friend . |
| 26 | When it came to other people , particularly men , she preferred to be in control . |
| 27 | She was n't so sure about her safety when it came to other things . |
| 28 | But when it came to such ‘ non-core ’ products such as pensions and insurance , these numbers rose dramatically — with 44 per cent saying ‘ no ’ over life assurance and pensions and 34 per cent saying ‘ no ’ over general insurance . |
| 29 | When it came to new furnishings , people usually they found it difficult to say why apart from ‘ I got it because I liked it ’ , or ‘ I got it because it was cheap ’ . |
| 30 | The flamboyant impulsive talkative Celts of Ireland 's Iron Age may , in their enthusiasm , have put just a little too much emphasis on quantity rather than quality when it came to liquid refreshments . |