Example sentences of "that it come " in BNC.

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1 That it came from within me , not from without .
2 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 .
3 Maybe , but there 's a pretty good chance that it came from a farm workshop .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 He saw an arc of blood , and knew that it came from his own neck .
7 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 . )
8 That it came to this shows how involved Priestley was in the religious disputes and politics of his day .
9 It was only in the continuing silence that it came to her that her defenceless back was presented to the rest of the room .
10 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 ) .
11 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 .
12 It is more likely that it came from Marks & Spencer or from that little boutique round the comer .
13 He had looked up ‘ family ’ in his dictionary before coming to the debate , and he reminded the Committee that it came from familia .
14 She felt even sorrier for him with that stammer when he went up to read the first lesson , and had to announce that it came from the eighth chapter of Deuteronomy , a word which took him four goes .
15 Another suggested it was produced by special nerve cells in the brain ; a third that it came in units called psychonic impulses , generated when two nerves were in communication .
16 Whilst these proposals were still before the King , the army marched on London and expelled the leading Presbyterians from the House of Commons so that it came under the control of the Independents .
17 Long after his death The Pilgrim 's Progress so universally found its way into the childhood reading of all classes that it came to be regarded as part of the heritage of all Protestant Churches in the English-speaking world .
18 Thus one conspirator in the 1961 Great Heavy Electrical Industry conspiracy said : ‘ We understand this was what the company wanted us to do ’ , and another reported that , ‘ It ( the instruction ) came to me from my superior … but my impression was that it came to him from higher up ’ .
19 More important was that German and Italian aid tended to arrive on request , and especially when most needed following Nationalist setbacks or preceding major pushes ; that it was channelled through Franco as Nationalist leader and not , as with Soviet aid to the Republic , through a political faction ; and that it came on easy credit terms with no political strings attached .
20 Not that it came to me just thinking : I realized it at school .
21 The sadness was that it came from the killing of Harry .
22 What was striking about the instant response to Stanley 's emancipation proposals in 1833 was that it came from Howick , until recently in charge , at the Colonial Office , of the emancipation question , and that his strongest dissent arose from the failure of the plan to chart a move as soon as possible directly from slavery to free labour without bothering with an apprenticeship stage .
23 The gold was very fine , and , when minted , affected the currency : the Company issued a guinea coin to pay its dividends and had it specially stamped with an elephant to show that it came from Africa .
24 When full employment was reached and demand exceeded supply , inflation was likely to follow , but this could be counteracted by reducing demand so that it came back into line with supply .
25 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 .
26 Kate felt inordinately pleased at his offer , even though she was astute enough to know that it came from a desire for any company , rather than hers specifically .
27 Wherever we see an ancient town church without a churchyard , we may well suspect that the town is the daughter of some mother village near by — now completely overshadowed by its offspring — and that it came into existence at a comparatively late date , since the Norman Conquest anyway , and most probably in the twelfth or thirteenth century .
28 I became really depressed because no matter how much I loved my children or tried to take care of them , I could neither keep the doctor at bay or the fungus that was destroying everything that it came into contact with .
29 By this time I was so sure that any Friday 13th would mean a move that it came as no surprise when we left the Pit on Tuesday 10 October .
30 It is no new thing for pushing tradesmen occasionally to send unsolicited goods to persons in the hope of making a sale , but this practice developed to the extent that it came to be regarded in some quarters as a serious social problem .
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