Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it came " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , we might have to be reminded that it came from a pig at all . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | and I found D Y by D X and I found that it came to erm X squared . |
| 4 | Mr Ashdown reaffirmed his willingness to be flexible and to compromise if it came to negotiating with a minority government of either hue . |
| 5 | put it in the vice , I mean put it in the vice whether , whether it just pull the head off I do n't know but it came out |
| 6 | I read — I do not know whether it came from the Department of Energy or from Conservative central office ; I suspect that it was the latter — that privatisation of the coal industry will drive a stake through the heart of Dracula , the leader of the NUM . |
| 7 | He 'd forgotten about the way it flickered before it came on properly and made a noise . |
| 8 | They walked towards the unsteady steps , and a figure took shape out of the darkness , weaving as it came and blinking dazedly as the lantern was lifted to illuminate its face . |
| 9 | They would throw the ball against a wall , do one or more twirls and still have time to catch when it came down . |
| 10 | The noise in the Chamber tonight did not do the House great credit , but I do not think that it came from one side alone . |
| 11 | It could be argued that it came too late to correct the inequity completely , but at least it was a partial correction . |
| 12 | And , my God , they would certainly succeed if it came out that she was Postlethwaite 's niece . |
| 13 | We had it scanned and it came to light the morning after the race . |
| 14 | That mining might mean the end of the road for the town , with a population of some 6,000 people , did not unduly worry the man from the Department of Economic Development — Northern Ireland ( DEDNI ) , Ivor Greene , who told the Irish Times ‘ If it was decided that the time was proper for mining to proceed , Ballymoney could disappear but the people would be well compensated if it came to that ’ . |
| 15 | Berisford formerly owned British Sugar but was forced to sell when it came unstuck with property deals in the US . |
| 16 | Maybe we are like a photocopy of God that got a bit crumpled and smudged as it came out of the machine so that his image in us has got a bit spoilt , but that does not alter the fact that every person has something of God about them . |
| 17 | However , while it was comparatively easy to cobble together a story around a popular star , the British industry was not yet well organized when it came to finding a steady output of ideas for dramatic features and developing them into workable scripts . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In 1913 , Mrs. Pember Reeves commented that it came as a shock to realise that working class wives in Lambeth who looked as it they were ‘ in the dull middle of middle age ’ in the 1950s , Viola Klein remarked that women generally looked old at 40 , which may indicate some improvement . |
| 20 | We 've now got a good package which saves us nearly eighty thousand pounds and to actually undo all of that and create an awful lot of public disquiet plus a problem with regard to potential redundancy to particular saving that accommodates this as the absolutely completely inane and except for where it came from , I would be gobsmacked if it came tonight . |
| 21 | If you invited him to make one at a dinner-party , you expected him to talk intelligibly ; if he published a volume of poems you expected him to write the sort of thing that the average well-educated man could understand because it came within the orbit of his own experience . |
| 22 | The engine turned , was slow to fire before it came to life . |
| 23 | Kate , pregnant with her second baby , thought she knew what to expect when it came to giving birth , especially since she 'd had a long labour first time round . |
| 24 | The East Bank was consistently preferred when it came to investment , for irrigation , land reclamation , electricity , transport and communications . |
| 25 | 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 . ) |
| 26 | It will appear suddenly in the pocket of a jacket you have n't worn since it came back from the cleaners . |
| 27 | That same Sunday , in the evening , there was played out in the Cabinet Room the sad farce of waiting for the telegram of conditions for the line of credit front Morgans ' in New York , relayed through the Bank of England , and containing when it came the terms which were wanted by MacDonald and Snowden , but which were anathema to half the Cabinet . |
| 28 | But there was something dangerously lacking when it came to the matter of how they applied their logic to the solution of a particular problem . |
| 29 | The lion turned , jaws slavering , eyes ablaze with fury and Corbett flinched as it came towards him , belly crouched , its tail twitching , its hind legs tense , then it sprang . |
| 30 | Each minute , each second , had to be played as it came . |