Example sentences of "but when it [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when it came down to it , it was the people who did n't really know Lancashire who found Walter Machin impressive . |
| 2 | But when it comes down to concrete moral judgements and commitments , such abstractions will be found interpreted in opposing ways . |
| 3 | But when it comes down to it , the V8 is more a car for drivers than passengers . |
| 4 | MACAULEY Culkin 's Kevin may be a dab hand with a booby trap but when it comes down to straightforward , grimy-faced scallywaggery , there are a couple of Irish lads in Into The West who could give him a run for his money . |
| 5 | But when it comes down to it , they 're just another extension of the posing and preening junk-culture metal showing now on MTV heavy rotation . |
| 6 | But when it comes down to it , Oswaldston is n't the sort of place one visits , is it ? what ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You might be a whizz at your job , you might have the charisma of ten men , but when it comes down to normal decent human values you 're nothing . |
| 8 | Great sporting moments have many facets but when it comes down to thrills and spill and leaving the pulses racing , the National is hard to beat . |
| 9 | But when it comes down to it , they 're just another extension of the posing and preening junk-culture metal showing now on MTV heavy rotation . |
| 10 | Even in the opera the Passacaglia ends not when the curtain goes up but when it comes down . |
| 11 | They wanted to keep them happy , they let them carry on with their religion , it did n't interest them but when it comes down to serious things like killing erm political agitators , the Romans wanted to deal with that themselves . |
| 12 | Before deciding to stock any wine , Winemark look extensively at the quality and reliability of the winery , but when it comes down to it , it 's the taste that makes the difference . |
| 13 | So the ideal as far as federal government is concerned is they , they devise policy guidelines and they provide financial inducements to states to implement various programmes but when it comes down to it they run up against the rock of the constitution and the constitution says that the states derive their authority from this sacred document and they are not to be tampered with and the consequence is that America has , not only a federal government , but fifty state governments er and those state governments are large enterprises which enjoy wide initiative and they contributors , contribute to the divi diversity of the United States as a political system . |
| 14 | But when it comes down to it , women protect women . ’ |
| 15 | But when it comes down to it you ca n't do it can you ? |
| 16 | It should be a close race on paper , but when it comes down to it we 'll see what happens . |