Example sentences of "when it [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when it come to you , master Conroy , and you hardly out of short trousers … ’ |
| 2 | Blofeld is not alone when it come to the Josef Stalin Caring Employer Award . |
| 3 | When it come to excitement-value , neither of the Top Yanks holds a candle to Finn 's Hotel ( Viking , June , £12.99 , 0 670 85067 5 ) , the ‘ lost novel ’ by James Joyce , allegedly completed some time between the writing of Ulysses and Finnegan 's Wake . |
| 4 | Now when it come to wars , governments are funny |
| 5 | ‘ When it come to the last quarter of an hour , you want to have that last a long while ! ’ |
| 6 | A fire painting by Yves Klein ( lot 65 , est. £50,000–70,000 ) attracted the session 's highest price when it sold to a telephone bidder for £75,000 . |
| 7 | ‘ Maria Callas No. 4 ’ ( Sotheby 's lot 47 , est. $200–250,000 ) , an explosive abstract composition painted by Julian Schnabel on a large sheet of dark red velvet in 1982 , shared an auction record for the artist 's work when it sold to New York property developer , Harry Macklowe and his wife Linda , for $290,000 ( £161,100 ) . |
| 8 | A middle scale version of Rodin 's ‘ La Defense ( The Call to Arms ) ’ ( lot 16 , est. $200,000–300,000 ) attracted the sale 's highest bid of $310,000 ( £181,000 ) when it sold to an American institution , while Utrillo 's pretty winter scene , ‘ Rue à Poissy ’ ( lot 131 , est. $60,000–80,000 ) was the sale 's most expensive painting , bought by an American dealer for $100,000 ( £58,000 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's a shock when it happens to you . |
| 10 | The other conclusion is that , when it happens to you , it is an overpowering sensation . |
| 11 | This is enviable good luck and financially profitable , and when it happens to a writer whose standards are not thereby lowered only prigs will think less of the work . |
| 12 | ‘ But when it happens to you in that way it 's another ball game entirely . |
| 13 | There 's no connection between the thought beforehand , and when it happens to you something different happens . |
| 14 | The higher-level activity itself can , of course , become automatised , and whereas in the case of skills such as riding a bicycle or tying shoelaces this is advantageous , when it happens to writing or reading the consequences are unfortunate . |
| 15 | Can I just comment on the lady saying a minor crime , I do n't think any crime is minor when it happens to you |
| 16 | When it happens to you it 's totally different . |
| 17 | It 's not right when it happens to the lads from the inner cities , so it would n't be right if it happened to the lads from the county set . |
| 18 | Also when it refers to financial or economic affairs it is usually only bad news . |
| 19 | The lovely negro spiritual ‘ Balm in Gilead ’ expresses it very well when it refers to ‘ the sin sick soul . ’ |
| 20 | It has been rebuilt and readorned many times , and most centuries from the fourth to the twentieth — when it had to be largely rebuilt after the Second World War — have contributed to it ; it is a supreme symbol of continuity . |
| 21 | During his time with the company started the first CPM 7000 interswitch press in the country and Preston workmates were not sure whether it was a splash of fat or a tear on 's cheek when it had to be replaced by the new Palladin 1600 . |
| 22 | The health committee 's report last week on community care puts its finger on the problem when it points to a ‘ paradox ’ or ‘ tension ’ in government policy over assessments of need and cash limits . |
| 23 | I am about to retort that I have no car , when it occurs to me that it might be something he wanted to find out . |
| 24 | When it fell to Dukes to introduce the second stage of the Bill empowering the referendum , he was forced to address himself specifically to the bishops ' arguments in their letter ( text , Irish Times , 15 May 1986 ) . |
| 25 | Labour joy was multiplied when it fell to Keith Joseph , the Trade and Industry Secretary , to make the rescue statement . |
| 26 | When it fell to his lot to cut her free from the coils of the hydra , had his poignant fixation received a body-blow — or a boost ? |
| 27 | Intel 's difficulties getting yields on 66MHz Pentiums leave Unisys , who has had a close collaborative alliance on chip design with Intel for the past two years , unable to say exactly when it go to the 66MHz parts . |
| 28 | Intel 's difficulties getting yields on 66MHz Pentiums leave Unisys , who has had a close collaborative alliance on chip design with Intel for the past two years , unable to say exactly when it go to the 66MHz parts . |
| 29 | Guarded by a collective representation in which theft and violence reside in a dangerous class , morally elevated by its correctional quest , the state achieves the legitimacy of its pacific intention and the acceptance of legality — even when it goes to war and massively perpetuates activities it has allegedly banned from the world . |
| 30 | It just shows , I think , how vigilant Councillors need to be when you get all these documents , and you do get many of them if you 're a District County Councillor , and how necessary it is for you to read them and study them and to remember because these things are very very important when they 're put in when it goes to higher authority at that time . |