Example sentences of "it came [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it came through Rose he encouraged it as much as he would have discouraged visits to any other neighbouring house . |
| 2 | That is how it came for Jesus ’ . |
| 3 | It came to Paul that he could watch it advancing from the roof of the hall . |
| 4 | Later it came to Lord Eldon . |
| 5 | It came to Kanchelskis waist high and the Ukranian , who struggled in the last month to retain his place , scored with a perfect volley . |
| 6 | And she had never had much time for Angela Cartwright , who , when it came to Grunte , tended to run with the hare , though it was plain enough that she had been put out by Grunte 's placing Hyacinth on his right hand and had agreed with Carole afterwards that they would have little trouble finding the necessary fifty signatures . |
| 7 | But when it came to Grunte , they disagreed . |
| 8 | Then it came to March and I did n't come on . |
| 9 | Then , like a bolt out of the blue , it came to Sarah . |
| 10 | In that instant it came to Ruth that he did know her ; but before she could be sure his hands left her shoulders and he went leaping round the side of the hummock , his long coat flapping , straight towards the spear men . |
| 11 | When it came to Steiner 's turn , he went in and sat down , finding the darkness surprisingly comforting . |
| 12 | Suddenly it came to Hazel that if Bigwig was dead — and what else could hold him silent in the mud ? — then he himself must get the others away before the dreadful loss could drain their courage and break their spirit — as it would if they stayed by the body . |
| 13 | When it came to Glasgow fun Fergus stood alone , but Lord Roberts , that same whose statue and cuddy stand in splendid isolation looking down on Kelvin Park from Park Circus , told the graduation audience in Glasgow University in 1913 that , ‘ Britain stands alone still ’ . |
| 14 | There was , however , an instinct in him when it came to Judith that he 'd never experienced with any other woman . |
| 15 | It came to Noreen 's rescue when she was just fifteen , pregnant and living in a Children 's Home with little hope of anywhere else to go . |
| 16 | After leaving Dekalb at 20 , Cindy always returned to her mother for advice — except when it came to Gere , 17 years her senior . |
| 17 | The miracle-stories quoted above indicate that this was a coin-using peasant society : every household wanted coins some of the time — notably when it came to Martinmas ( 11 November ) , the customary time for paying dues to landlords ( as it remained in the nineteenth century ) . |
| 18 | Location was something of a problem when it came to Pat Phoenix , the phenomenally successful Elsie Tanner of Coronation Street . |
| 19 | And wounded pride was something that she could quite easily cope with when it came to Jonathan Whalley . |
| 20 | I packed up and went to follow the scales and 7 lb was the top until it came to Tony who weighed 10 lb dead . |
| 21 | It came into Wexford 's mind that money metaphors often have to do with water , gushing , springing , and that business men talk of liquidity and cash flow . |
| 22 | The easiest course was to leave the car , which they did by the end doors , and they were still walking in single file through the train when it came into Hammersmith . |
| 23 | John Stradling was receiver of Ogmore when it came into Gloucester 's hands and , unlike the steward and constable , was kept in office by the duke . |
| 24 | John Stradling was receiver of Ogmore when it came into Gloucester 's hands and , unlike the steward and constable , was kept in office by the duke . |
| 25 | It came on July 9th . |
| 26 | The event , when it came on February 19th , was worth the wait . |
| 27 | It came on St Valentines Day , 14 February 1979 . |
| 28 | Erika was still not completely sure what the text meant but one thing about it was clear , people had better things to do than to dwell on the past and surely — it came upon Erika in a flash of intuition — surely the State was doing just that : not , of course , leaving the dead unmourned , and certainly not forgetting the evils of Fascism , but moving forward — preaching a socialist gospel — and not merely preaching it , doing it : making a fairer , better , juster Germany . |
| 29 | It came in India in 1974–5 when he began with 93 and 107 ; this proved to be something of a false dawn and he had an unhappy time in Australia in 1975–6 , but he worked on his technique and finally established himself in England in 1976 with 592 runs at 65 , including a century in each innings on a poor Old Trafford pitch . |
| 30 | It came in February 1939 , when Harry Goodman , a dyspeptic character who worked alongside Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld on the Chief Rabbi 's Religious Emergency Council ( CRRE C ) , launched a bitter diatribe against the faint hearts of Bloomsbury House . |