Example sentences of "it was come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was to come into contact with a man who could write and see and feel . |
| 2 | But what a delight it was to come across your adventure , particularly so as Sept saw me doing 6 days canoeing the Zam with Shearwater , rafting Vic Falls 4–19 and a flip at 18 , and I spent 2 days at Kariba lake on a houseboat . |
| 3 | The expedition was not to start until the beginning of May , five days away , and she knew with absolute certainty that the word of it was to come to them from her . |
| 4 | She stated in her own will it was to come to me when Dad died . ’ |
| 5 | It would have come , if it was to come at all , only if a well co-ordinated , centrally directed campaign of strikes , carried out by an immensely disciplined and united workforce , and backed by enough money to support the strikers for as long as necessary , could have been made to prevail against the resolute and more readily co-ordinated opposition of masters who stood to lose everything if the strikers won . |
| 6 | The revolution would have come , if it was to come at all , only if the demand for industrial democracy through the agency of Industrial Co-operation , could have prompted such a comprehensive tide of sympathetic opinion as had carried parliamentary reform over the barriers of stubborn opposition . |
| 7 | No : the revolution would have come , if it was to come at all , only if the resources available to the forces for change , the unions , had been enough to enable them to seize and hold the means of production , and if they had had the will to employ those resources ; not as a thief in the night but in a scene of anarchy and dreadful confusion of which the French Revolution would have given but a faint anticipation . |
| 8 | It was to come from an unexpected quarter : the environmentalists . |
| 9 | We only knew for certain that there was something strange afoot when we heard the sounds of a train being marshalled and it started coming towards the hostel , what is more terrifying was that it was coming on a non-existent track ! |
| 10 | It was , it was coming on lovely . |
| 11 | It was coming at me like a bullet , head shaking , lips curled back , teeth long and yellow and by far the biggest I 'd ever seen on a rabbit , live or dead . |
| 12 | It was coming to something , when he had to endure the derision of whores in the line of duty . |
| 13 | The team manager was well aware of it , knew that it was coming to a head , but took no action . |
| 14 | The Gay Centre in Glasgow was deteriorating socially , so much so that it was coming to the state where women and others were feeling oppressed by the atmosphere created by insensitive youths who seemed to believe the Centre , including the back room ( our only meeting-place ) , was their seven-nights-a-week preserve . |
| 15 | ‘ He just could n't believe there was that much money in the world and it was coming to him , ’ said Sybil at the time . |
| 16 | It was coming to be generally accepted by 1880 that the state was the proper political expression of the nation . |
| 17 | Now , was this forty thousand pounds a bolt from the blue or did you know it was coming to you ? |
| 18 | As they turned up River Street it was coming down the hill and there would n't be another for an hour . |
| 19 | And it was coming down the side streets erm by er Hotel er what 's the name of that street ? |
| 20 | It was coming towards the tail-end of skiffle then , and all my mates had guitars . |
| 21 | It was coming towards her , scuttling down the air line . |
| 22 | But it was coming towards me . |
| 23 | And er if you see it was coming towards of course you run into them , but if they were going the other way course the dust still keep going . |
| 24 | Burun estimated that the party of riders beneath it was coming through the last of the little valleys which led out onto the plain . |
| 25 | You were up to and over your knees in water in the trench : it was supposed to be our dug-out and it was coming through these bits o' wood and we were a-sodden wet through and cold . |
| 26 | I heard a noise one night , like several motorbikes roaring down the road , only it was coming from above , and as I looked out of the window there they were — three red exhausts in the sky , blinding along a parallel course a few feet above the roof tops . |
| 27 | The radio was silent and I realized that it was coming from outside . |
| 28 | When I looked up I saw it was coming from two smartly dressed men on the long bench-seat opposite . |
| 29 | It was a few seconds before she realised that it was coming from her . |
| 30 | I saw it was coming from Mr Rochester 's door , which was slightly open . |