Example sentences of "but it come " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were 132 for 6 at the close and it was clearly time to pray for rain ; but it came on the rest day by mistake , and although Emburey and Downton battled for a while , the end was not long delayed . |
| 2 | He dived underneath it but it came down , almost crushing him . |
| 3 | Clarissa would have liked to stand up for Charles , but it came out as nothing more positive than ‘ Oh ’ . |
| 4 | Its arguments may raise a smile now , but it came from an experienced pastor to an intelligent and dedicated missionary , and was clearly directed to some of the major preoccupations of Germanic and other pagans . |
| 5 | But it came oddly from the throats of people who by 1979 were as involved in government and state as the Magharba . |
| 6 | But it came down with Churchill 's head showing . |
| 7 | This may have been an eruption similar to that which built Surtsey , but it came to nothing , and no island succeeded in raising its head above water . |
| 8 | I made a non-committal cluck at the back of my throat , but it came out higher than I had intended . |
| 9 | She laughed shortly but it came out as a half-sob . |
| 10 | I turned to my nearest fellow browser , intending to ask her politely but firmly to lead me to the nearest padded cell , but it came out wrong . |
| 11 | A decision to contest a parliamentary seat ‘ if a favourable opportunity should occur ’ and to grant £250 as expenses was taken in October , but it came too late ( SCS Quarterly report 28 October 18 ) . |
| 12 | But it came to an end because of greed , or maybe over-altruism . |
| 13 | But it came too late for him to do anything about it , for when he straightened up and turned towards the bank the bullet hit him in the chest and his body seemed to disintegrate and fly in all directions , and he knew that death was on him and that it was something that divided you into a million parts and each fragment screamed as it flung itself into eternity . |
| 14 | Convertibility eventually came in 1958 ; but it came with a fixed exchange rate . |
| 15 | None of this necessarily involved fighting between French and British , but it came at a time when the British Company was revising its policy of relying on the Moghul Emperor and on the successes of Englishmen outside India to protect its position . |
| 16 | Huntington remained with the Esmondes until 1760 , when it was sold to the Bishop of Limerick ; but it came back into the family when it was bought in 1780 by Alexander Durdin , a Protestant , whose son Richard married Frances Esmonde . |
| 17 | Well I do n't know what make it was but it came from the house , the furnishing company of Union Street , Plymouth I ca n't remember the shop . |
| 18 | But it came close , tugging her back to consciousness ; still mostly asleep , she recognized it . |
| 19 | ‘ And Titch , bless his heart , but it came too late for them . ’ |
| 20 | " Please — " I tried to formulate some plea in the middle of a pain , but it came out as a whimper . |
| 21 | It is perhaps understandable why these men , who earn their livelihood in the very embrace of the Goddess of the South Seas , should take her so seriously , but it came as more of a surprise that the Sultan of Surakarta should do the same . |
| 22 | But it came from a reliable source . |
| 23 | She took a mouthful of wine , but it came straight back up . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't know about that , but it came to the same thing , I suppose . |
| 25 | He was reluctant but it came in the end : ‘ I 've been thinking ; if Alfie really was coming here it 's possible he would have taken the short cut like we did when we were boys . |
| 26 | Christmas 1992 came late , but it came . |
| 27 | The first game was good , but it came down to one player , Garrison , who was desperate to win , and one player , Graff , who just kind of did n't want to lose . |
| 28 | She vaguely heard Matilda 's angry voice , but it came to her from a great distance . |
| 29 | Collimore Stone won it back brilliantly off Lewis but it came to nothing . |
| 30 | In the country at large there was some pronounced hostility but it came mainly from one quarter and on one issue — churchmen and the religious settlement . |