Example sentences of "[conj] it came " in BNC.

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1 The survey also pointed to two weaknesses : marketing ( where it failed to make the top ten ) and capacity to innovate ( where it came seventh ) .
2 I would send dignity to the devil , where it came from . ’
3 I have no idea who got that extra money or where it came from .
4 Fleming went on to describe how the nasal secretions of the patient ( himself , in fact ) were cultured , and how a round microbe or coccus first grew and then was destroyed where it came close to the nasal secretion .
5 The Undo command gives you a second chance when you delete a block of text in error by allowing you to replace it in the document exactly where it came from .
6 The term first appeared in the nonsense works of Edward Lear , but where it came from no one knows .
7 She had never questioned where it came from , though she knew deep inside .
8 Cadbury World is a permanent exhibition devoted entirely to Chocolate — where it came from , who first drank the mysterious potion , when it became eating chocolate and the part Cadbury played in this fascinating story .
9 We do n't know what it is or where it came from , but there 's obviously something in it ! ’
10 Where it came from goodness only knows , but it survived illness , unhappiness and the hum drum of Roundhay .
11 Is that where it came from ? ’
12 where it came to rest .
13 Has anyone got an idea where it came from ?
14 So it 's er just out this one , or it came out the end of er last year , December , January time .
15 Luckily the rug was never pulled although it came close .
16 After a pub lunch we did a bit outside the car-park mortuary and then settled down with the telephone to record some attempts to buy a coffin , one of which resulted in agreement , which was the last thing we needed at the time , although it came in very handy later .
17 It is clearly related to the Horta figure work although it came a few months later , and it shows the same intensive analysis of the nature of solid forms .
18 That it came from within me , not from without .
19 They walked like robots until Doyle yelled , ‘ Stop ! ’ with half his voice whirled away by the wind so that it came to them as a little thread of sound .
20 Maybe , but there 's a pretty good chance that it came from a farm workshop .
21 Whatever lies Buddie chose to tell about it , she and Frankie would tell everyone the truth : that it came in a big parcel from across the sea in America .
22 It can take some comfort from the rise of 7.5 per cent in its vote and from the fact that it came second to Labour in so many seats and is at last beginning to nibble at Labour 's huge majorities in the Central Belt .
23 He saw an arc of blood , and knew that it came from his own neck .
24 And an achene is a small , single-seeded fruit that does not open , which you might mistake for a nut unless you know that it came from a single carpel . )
25 That it came to this shows how involved Priestley was in the religious disputes and politics of his day .
26 It was only in the continuing silence that it came to her that her defenceless back was presented to the rest of the room .
27 We note that it came top of the apostles ' agenda when the members of the brand new church ‘ devoted themselves to the apostles ’ teaching' ( Acts 2:2 ) .
28 If you know that I have just bought an angora woollie at half price in a sale , it is unlikely that it came from Boots the chemist .
29 It is more likely that it came from Marks & Spencer or from that little boutique round the comer .
30 He had looked up ‘ family ’ in his dictionary before coming to the debate , and he reminded the Committee that it came from familia .
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