Example sentences of "come [to-vb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as America and Germany were still at peace , and the leasing of the pilots was a clear breach of the US Neutrality Act which Hitler , had he come to know of it , might have used as an excuse for sinking American ships , the news had to be kept strictly secret . |
| 2 | Text books often include reference to explanations of legislation given by a minister in Parliament , as a result of which lawyers advise their clients taking account of such statements and judges when construing the legislation come to know of them . |
| 3 | And , Sir , I come to crave of you a boon , that you will give me Rodrigo of Bivar to be my husband , with whom I shall hold myself well married , and greatly honoured ; for certain I am that his possessions will one day be greater than those of any man in your dominions . |
| 4 | It will be well beyond 30 years before the majority of married women and widowed retirement pensioners come to consist of persons who have paid full contributions throughout their periods of employment . |
| 5 | Well that , well er you carry on from there and you go along well five , six mile , through Dane Valley and then you come to point of the station , a quick turn left leads up by er |
| 6 | The passion killers come to end of the line . |
| 7 | As we come to end of of that part we have erm Burmingford Hall of Ministry two , three people and we have also as part of the report recognised the timing of Roy , where 's Roy ? |
| 8 | But he 's just a bit irritating cos he well you know I do , I do n't understand how you go through a whole relationship and everything , and then come to end of it and not even feel the slightest bit |
| 9 | Come to think of it , neither hunger nor randiness hits quite the spot . |
| 10 | Come to think of it , that bloody M.O . |
| 11 | In a review essay written two years before ‘ Pornography and Obscenity ’ , Lawrence attacks the way we have ( allegedly ) come to think of ourselves in modern civilization . |
| 12 | If Britain guarantees that the Hong Kong government 's financial reserves will be above a certain level come 1997 , and if the airport 's costs are below a certain level , and if Hong Kong neither raises taxes nor issues debt to pay for the airport , and if China has a say not just on the airport but also on other franchises Hong Kong grants and , come to think of it , on other ‘ important ’ matters — if all that is conceded , then Hong Kong can have its airport . |
| 13 | Come to think of it , he was almost being treated as a woman . |
| 14 | Come to think of it , I could go to Bowness-on-Windermere till he was released . |
| 15 | Women come to think of themselves as debilitated and polluted , rather than magically powerful , because of their bleeding . |
| 16 | They even have a branch of M & S. Come to think of it , perhaps Grimshaw 's pavilion is the ideal location , come the autumn , for the first out-of-town branch of that great British enterprise to hit the Iberian peninsula . |
| 17 | Come to think of it , I could still get it in tomorrow 's edition of the Star . |
| 18 | Moreover , now that I come to think of it , it is perhaps not so surprising that it should also have made a deep impression on Miss Kenton given certain aspects of her relationship with my father during her early days at Darlington Hall . |
| 19 | In fact , now that I come to think of it , I have a feeling it may have been Lord Darlington himself who made that particular remark to me that time he called me into his study some two months after that exchange with Miss Kenton outside the billiard room . |
| 20 | Come to think of it , I 'm not sure I even know who Mike Farrell [ AAA/BAAB General Secretary ] is ! ’ |
| 21 | I 've been in almost NO conceivable human situation , come to think of it . ’ |
| 22 | ( Which , come to think of it , makes it even more surprising it 's not in the rule books . ) |
| 23 | And how , come to think of it , was Henry going to get him to absorb the stuff , short of creeping up on him while he was asleep and forcing it down his throat or up his arse ? |
| 24 | ‘ Come to think of it I 'd have given you the oranges even if you 'd said no . ’ |
| 25 | He really was fed up , come to think of it . |
| 26 | ‘ When you come to think of it , ’ she said afterwards , ‘ if you think of it as training , it must be far more toughening than those softy hot baths . |
| 27 | His brother , on the other hand — this did seem a little odd , now that I come to think of it — had apparently learnt his German locally ; from his voice I should have said he was Austrian . |
| 28 | Now I come to think of it , she was rather vague regarding his exact position with the company . |
| 29 | Come to think of it , so would golden handshaking , and surely that is topical ! |
| 30 | Come to think of it , the Krooms may have come from outer space , though outer space was not then as popular as it later became for launching expeditions against Earthmen . |