Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] it had come " in BNC.

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1 If only it had come while he was still Emperor of Agriculture House …
2 If only it had come a few years earlier .
3 Like her , the General had prayed and hoped for the violet 's return , and now it had come and it would surely blossom more gloriously than ever before .
4 And so it had started ; and now it had come to a head .
5 Maybe , thought Jaq , that was where the Callidus experiment had come unstuck … if indeed it had come unstuck .
6 At the same time as he was engaged in more political work , Marx attempted to rewrite the history of mankind for the use of the oppressed , so that they would be able to understand the nature of the oppression to which they were subjected , and how it had come about .
7 The Ministry of Defence said that Belgian ammunition of that particular batch had never been supplied to the British Army , and how it had come into Britain was unknown .
8 In the small hours of the next morning , when they were back at La Gracieuse , after dancing her feet raw with Sam , with Rodet , and with half of Normandy , she told John what had happened and how it had come about .
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