Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] it came " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was then that they released the Wheel and it came bowling down the hill not more than ten yards from where I was standing . |
| 2 | It was his first experience of such blatant prejudice and it came as a shock . |
| 3 | It 's , it 's really stocking stitch cos it came from the stocking machine did n't it ? |
| 4 | And I rung for an ambulance and it came and we took her up and sat with her , and they kept her in for four days . |
| 5 | Not short of a pound when it came to putting clothes on her back , I can tell you … ’ |
| 6 | Dinah had not called , and had drunk the tea when it came ; after that , she began to have sharp pains in the small of the back . |
| 7 | Above all he turned his anger towards Kenamun , who , on grounds of security , had forbidden Huy to visit the scene of the third murder when it came to light , where he might have had a chance at last of studying the circumstances of death . |
| 8 | In the past it was invariably the leading Americans who seemed to have more grit or nerve when it came to the closing stretch . |
| 9 | Leaving aside the fact that already under Dej the standing of a student 's relatives in the Party hierarchy already counted for a great deal when it came to handing out exam results , connections with the very summit of political power could offer useful patronage and protection to scientists and their institute . |
| 10 | I did n't want you to be caught in the crossfire when it came . |
| 11 | Sub-editors loved the Eastern excursion and imaginations ran riot when it came to headlines . |
| 12 | ‘ He had an inferiority complex when it came to love-making ’ , [ his wife revealed ] , ‘ but it never killed his great sexual appetite ’ . |
| 13 | A couple of policemen caught the boat as it came in alongside and steadied it . |
| 14 | Women are at the heart of the sixth festival , but Pauline had one very special man in mind when it came to the coronation Les Dawson . |
| 15 | Although he had a stylish vulnerability when it came to cars , driving was not Baxter 's strong point . |
| 16 | Bobo pursed her lips and began to pant and chomp her jaws in appreciation as it came within reach . |
| 17 | He had looked up ‘ family ’ in his dictionary before coming to the debate , and he reminded the Committee that it came from familia . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | For how many years have we been told it 's tax payers ' money do you remember Maggie and the tax payers ' money , it 's like this animal somewhere called the tax payer but it came out of the wall as if we were n't one of them and that we had to look after the tax payers ' money . |
| 20 | But Summers suggests , ambitiously , that there was solid evidence which , he claims , was what stopped Hoover tackling the Mob before it came to awesome power in America . |
| 21 | There is no doubt that the Baron 's wife , who has transferred her main residence to Spain , was of great influence when it came to deciding where the collection should alight . |
| 22 | He was dialling the restaurant to book the table for lunch when it came to him . |
| 23 | I had almost total recall when it came to gags , and innocently told the Con-Sec that as it was too late to engage a replacement comic , I 'd gladly do Dave Swan 's act for him , and went on to storm the audience . |
| 24 | I had obviously believe the gospel according to The Sun when it came to caves , where the underground world condemned hapless scout leaders and their unsuspecting charges to at least 15 hours trapped up to their necks in slimy cold water , if not to horrible slow deaths from rock falls and suffocation . |
| 25 | There the register-keeper was well and truly confused , since he not only referred to children of ‘ Charles William Titford , Linen Draper , Bishopsgate Street ’ — a nomenclature which we are used to by now — but also made an error when it came to wife Anne 's name — she appears as ‘ Mary ’ . |
| 26 | Spatz was a fool when it came to science , but he knew disrespect when he saw it . |
| 27 | In the same light , Marx opposed national independence when it came through non- or anti-revolutionary means . |
| 28 | THE earlier you learn , the better — that was our philosophy when it came to teaching our daughter to ski . |
| 29 | The short answer to that earnest question could be the Sunday Times itself , which — lest we forget — was in the vanguard when it came to boos and hisses . |
| 30 | It was my first play and it came about by accident , evolving out of that Tolstoy play I was supposed to adapt for the BBC . |