Example sentences of "[conj] it came [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 it 's blue paper that it came off the fax machine I 'm sure er
2 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 .
3 My hon. Friend was kind enough to tell me in answer to a question on the third problem , asking him whether he would make the east-west A427 a trunk road , that it came under the county council 's responsibility for bypasses .
4 An investigation of the Directorate published in Izvestiya of Oct. 22 , 1992 , revealed that the October 1991 order to form it from the troops of the Russian Interior Ministry was unknown to Supreme Soviet deputies ; that its personnel was armed and " in exceptional circumstances " could distribute its arms to people 's deputies ; that it guarded about 75 buildings in Moscow , " two-thirds of which have absolutely no relation to the parliament " ; and that it came under the jurisdiction only of the parliamentary Chairman .
5 The expression " transfer of assets " , the House of Lords held , was not to be infused with any different meaning by virtue of the fact that it came under the definition of " settlement " .
6 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 .
7 The sadness was that it came from the killing of Harry .
8 Oxy. 2944 ) , but there is no sign that it came from the Bible .
9 It is possible that it came from the east of the Frankish confederacy , rather than the Rhineland .
10 I knew a putt would have to drop before long and it came at the 8th , the par-3 ( 178 yards ) .
11 And it came to the crunch in April , I was on a death wish .
12 Urged on by a renewed Ibrox roar , they stormed forward in search of an equaliser , and it came in the 83rd minute .
13 At the count , Mr Taylor held his own until it came to the boxes from Whaddon and Hester 's Way — then disaster .
14 Until it came to the verdict : murder .
15 But he was not too worried ; he had had enough of worry for one morning ; if it came to the worst he would just report it stolen .
16 Even if it came to the point .
17 And you know that at the same time as you could clout them you 'd actually die for them also if it came to the point .
18 Mm and what would happen if it came to the end of the quarter and you had so much money accumulated to pay on your Co book , for stuff that you 'd got over the quarter , and you just could n't pay it ?
19 Like irony , if it came to the point , of which there seemed at present a good deal to be borne .
20 But if it came to the point where he thought he had nothing to lose , I do n't know what he would do . ’
21 Howard Barker is described in the programme as a playwright ‘ known for his robust stance ’ — feet apart , biceps raised ? — ‘ against the tide of TV obsessed populist drama , ’ but the dialogue in A Hard Heart sounds as if it came from the violet-ink-filled pen of Oscar Wilde .
22 Based upon his evaluation of the Senior Management Team conduct of assemblies , the Head of Department said that he would take any criticism of teaching skills very much to heart if it came from the DHS .
23 It 's , it 's really stocking stitch cos it came from the stocking machine did n't it ?
24 ‘ I do n't know about that , but it came to the same thing , I suppose .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 At home the children all slept together and the new baby with its parents till it came off the breast .
29 The group 's concern with rocketry was hardly respectable in those days : its existence was tolerated mainly because it came under the wing of Theodore van Karman , one of the world 's greatest aerodynamicists .
30 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 .
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