Example sentences of "it come [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A nice enough chap and he was knowledgeable in theory you see , but when it come to the practical experience and the practical doing of the work , he would just say , Well what did you do the last time Jimmy ? |
| 2 | They wanted it to come as a sudden surprise — jolt . |
| 3 | Convertibility eventually came in 1958 ; but it came with a fixed exchange rate . |
| 4 | It came with a generous 8Mb of RAM , backed by a full complement of 256Kb secondary cache RAM . |
| 5 | His Catechism of a Revolutionary is a classic in the tactics of terrorism , and it came with an agreeable click of fittingness to learn recently that this work earned a place on the bookshelves of Stalin . |
| 6 | I like to feel that if it came to a stand-up fight I would have a good chance of victory and escape . |
| 7 | I did not know whom I might meet there , and cramped as I as I did not fancy my chances at running away if it came to a straight chase on a hard surface . |
| 8 | If it came to a straight choice between a dolphin and Henry ( and in Henry 's view things had already got that serious ) he would go for Henry every time . |
| 9 | If it came to a straight cash contest , Blackburn can leave the rest standing . |
| 10 | But if it came to a pitched battle , the phalanx of heavily armed , well-mounted knights was a very formidable weapon . |
| 11 | This simple , naive and incomprehensible blunder established Scotland 's reputation as the team most likely to screw up when it came to a big match preparation . |
| 12 | It lacked the bypass of Hebon under Pertunda , and Triglaf certainly had the edge on it when it came to a southerly location . |
| 13 | Unfortunately it came to a sudden stop , got too efficient at it , you see , and er got done too early . |
| 14 | In December 1990 it came to the other directors ' knowledge that M and another manager , Elizabeth Melon , the software sales manager , intended to start a new company and to take over the distribution of the Boeing software . |
| 15 | But when it came to the first anecdote the tale of her son 's embarrassing performance in a school Nativity play the old professional skills suddenly shone through . |
| 16 | Ingrid and other loyal friends spent long hours burning the midnight oil with her when it came to the final typing . |
| 17 | He put in a kitchen and he thought there was something funny about these people erm they did n't want to give him money up front for the fabric , you know , the woods and things and he was n't asking the full amount anyway and he said , you know , a things are very tight in business and I do not want to run up any more debts if you will let me have some of cash , some of the cash fo for the wood as soon as the wood 's delivered I 'll come and do the job , it 's not as though your money is going to be tied up in any way and there was a bit of a face pulling and saw this woman drop to , sort of , always hovering around always putting her motty in and erm when th when the job was nearly completed madam steps forward with the cries of that is n't quite right and that is n't quite right and Nev was putting hours doing nit-picking fussing about getting things absolutely perfect got it absolutely perfect but when it came to the final bill they knocked off six hundred because there was the tiniest little scratch on one of the panels ! |
| 18 | When it came to the front door , she found she could n't go in . |
| 19 | For an unusual moment Haverford was silent , looking , when it came to the real thing , a little out of his depth . |
| 20 | Kathy Rooney stood in for Mr Wogan , and I was a bit tense when it came to the real thing . |
| 21 | Everyone tried to help , reassuring her that this was a good omen , she would be marvellous when it came to the actual performance , but it was fairly obvious she was in a bad way . |
| 22 | When it came to the actual recording , there was the sound of the pistol shot — followed not by the thump but by Ken wailing as only Kenneth Williams could wail . |
| 23 | ‘ I had to be in charge , ’ he later said , ‘ when it came to the actual making of the films . |
| 24 | It came to the reverse conclusion so far as the crime of administering a drug for the purpose of obtaining sexual intercourse was concerned and recommended that all sexual acts should be covered . |
| 25 | In fact , however , resistance to the new police continued to be expressed in the street violence and riots as ‘ the plague of blue locusts ’ spread throughout the country between 1829 and 1856 , and in particular as it came to the working class communities of the North ( Storch , 1975 , p. 94 ) . |
| 26 | When it came to the major events in the life of that other world outside Baldersdale , such as Christmas , the celebrations were muted , to say the least . |
| 27 | But she might still be a hindrance when it came to the rough stuff . |
| 28 | I had even studied Geology as my science subject and although I was cack-handed and obtuse when it came to the practical side had enjoyed the theory well enough . |
| 29 | In the past it was invariably the leading Americans who seemed to have more grit or nerve when it came to the closing stretch . |
| 30 | Yet the president 's radicalism unfortunately did falter when it came to the public sector . |