Example sentences of "and so it come " in BNC.

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1 And so it came about that while the Operational Staffs of the three Service Ministries were grappling with the Suez crisis of 1956 , which entailed increasing the Defence effort and calling up reservists to fill gaps in the order of battle for the contingency plan Musketeer , they were answering questions posed by the Hull Committee about the implications of halving Service manpower by April 1960 or 1961 at the very latest !
2 ‘ So wonderfully pleased and satisfied ’ was he with it that , as Molyneux wrote to Locke , ‘ he has ordered it to be read by the Batchelors in the College , and strictly examines them in their progress therein ’ ; and so it came about that Locke 's masterpiece was on the curriculum which faced George Berkeley , the subject of the next chapter , when he entered Trinity as a student in 1700 .
3 And so it came to be that the bewitching gesture of her father 's secretary walking down the golden path ( which bewitched me when I saw the woman in the swimsuit take leave of the lifeguard ) had completely gone to sleep in her .
4 And so it came about that all over the land children were assembled in groups of 40 and made to learn the facts set out in the books written by Messrs Hall & Stevens , Warner & Martin , Durrell & Palmer , and Potter and Ridout .
5 And so it came to pass that when we broke up for the summer holidays in 1941 , I set off on my bike to the farmer 's new settlement .
6 And so it came to pass .
7 And so it came to pass that on Friday 24 April , at 11am our time , 94 ladies and gentleman of the British press are gathered at Stansted Airport inside a privately chartered plane whose previous occupants were Neil Kinnock and the Labour Party election campaign team .
8 And so it came to pass , that they escaped all safe to land .
9 And so it came to pass that on the third day we journeyed to Gstaad and skied .
10 And so it comes to me , ’ he said quietly , as if to the painting .
11 And so it comes about , at the end of all the wanderings , that we find under one roof , in decaying Echo Street , that strangest of couples , Molly and Leopold Bloom and Stephen Daedalus .
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