Example sentences of "it [conj] [pron] came " in BNC.
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| 1 | Removal of this national vulnerability and dependence on other nations became the prime aim , and so compelling an aim was it that it came to be achieved by fair means or foul . |
| 2 | John Bellany , whose Chinatown is among the most familiar of the scheme , received so much publicity from it that he came back to London Underground to ask if he could do another . |
| 3 | All also said they would prefer it if it came in a pot , rather than in the single-application , fiddly pea-sized plastic spheres . |
| 4 | And if it if it came an air raid you started scurrying to the hill to get in the tunnel . |
| 5 | The Moslems would n't accept it if it came straight from him . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It 'll be a delightful distraction and I would appreciate it if you came along ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ By the way , I 'd appreciate it if you came along tonight . |
| 8 | to , to , to a meeting for the group for next year , you know , she 's gon na say well you know we tried it and nobody came |
| 9 | It only took this one slight pressure when he was least expecting it and he came loose . |
| 10 | ‘ He used his resources to try and trace it and he came up with a French jeweller who 'd been offered it about twenty-five years ago . |
| 11 | We were sitting there waiting to hear what the guy at the other end of the phone thought about it and he came back saying , It 's the worst thing anyone here has heard for a very long time — actually I think he was a little more abusive than that , but he went on — I do n't like it and I do n't know anyone else who would . |
| 12 | We were sitting there waiting to hear what the guy at the other end of the phone thought about it and he came back saying , It 's the worst thing anyone here has heard for a very long time — actually I think he was a little more abusive than that , but he went on — I do n't like it and I do n't know anyone else who would . |
| 13 | up there and all of a sudden he saw it and he came in the room , Tony and he went he looked up at it and the stood up at the back of his neck and he was going grurgh ever so quietly under his breath grurgh . |
| 14 | I went in for it and I came third . |
| 15 | So in the end I went upstairs , left Tony to it and I came back down and I tried to go to sleep again , I put me coat over me head and I could n't sleep so I moved . |
| 16 | With trepidation I took a stronger hold of it and it came away altogether but with a sharp dagger of soreness , like digging out a splinter . |
| 17 | I stood and looked at it and it came and rubbed itself against my leg . |
| 18 | They stayed in the vent , moving along it until they came to a down tunnel . |
| 19 | But to have lighted upon a new yet universal truth amused him and he went on thinking about it until he came to Jolyon Vigo 's house . |
| 20 | It was too dark to see what lay behind it but we came to a corner where a tall wooden tower rose suddenly towards the stars . |
| 21 | He dived underneath it but it came down , almost crushing him . |
| 22 | I was at a day school in Hampstead , King Alfred School , in its heyday , and we went out to Golders Green and boarded the open top of a No. 13 bus and sat on it till it came back to Golders Green again — such sights we saw ! |
| 23 | He thumbed through it till he came to Merrivale . |
| 24 | I 've always fixed my hair the way that people had it before they came to me to have it styled and fixed . |
| 25 | Prunella had nicely been trying to prise him out of it before they came , but she was timid of him . |
| 26 | In fact , Ray did a little work on it before we came over on this trip . ’ |
| 27 | Seddon knew more about the Ingard-Stavanger case than I did , because , being an ex-chief of the Fraud Squad , he 'd been consulted about it before it came to us , and had , in fact , directed the preliminary police inquiries . |
| 28 | Groping for the light switch , whose position he had not yet memorised perfectly , he saw the evening 's post still lying on the table in the hall where he had put it before he came out . |
| 29 | I just joined it after we came over but |
| 30 | The first person I ever came out to as a student was a person I suspected of being gay and everyone else thought he was gay ; in fact , he vehemently denied it after I came out . |