Example sentences of "it [vb past] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Jill Jones 's album had been on the shelf for so long that when it did come out , it sounded old , ’ she reveals . |
| 2 | They would definitely , at least , break even , and it did come to bear a few times . |
| 3 | Much impressed with my narrow escape , Dad carried the object downstairs on top of the sand in the fire bucket — it did come in handy after all — and we sat around gazing at it , drinking the inevitable tea and storing up this tale to pass on to all our friends and relations . |
| 4 | Despite George 's vigilance the snow , when it did come , took him unawares . |
| 5 | After all , when it did come it initially avoided these political problems by the simple device of locating the determinants of crime in the individual 's make-up ( and for that reason the early version of positivism has been a firm favourite with rulers and governments ever since ) . |
| 6 | For reasons which are both obscure and immaterial , there was considerable delay in this report coming to the attention of the local authority having the care of J. When in January 1992 it did come to the authority 's notice , Dr. I. was asked to provide a further up to date report and in addition the authority obtained a second opinion from Dr. R. , a consultant paediatric neurologist with a London teaching hospital . |
| 7 | It need not , however , have had the significance it acquired in tenth-century documents when it did come to express claims to a kingship of all Anglo-Saxons . |
| 8 | Of course when the baths were made there were ladies days and gents days , mixed bathing was considered not the thing in these days , but it did come in in the twenty or the , or the late twenties . |
| 9 | ‘ It did come off rather well , did n't it ? |
| 10 | And that night steals some milk and er sure enough it did come and then when the witch woken up in the morning and found out that somebody had been milking the cow she said er whoever stealing the milk will never work for six month . |
| 11 | It was a worry when we did n't get a pension and when it did come , it alleviated things , but we know it could run out in the New Year . |
| 12 | and it did come true , cos when I was in the room there I could hear |
| 13 | They 've given her something and she , she had to put this stuff on her hair , had to take a trip to the hairdresser and he said to the hairdresser comb my hair first and then put this stuff on and wait for a fortnight and it did come a little lighter , but it was n't much |
| 14 | It did come down once . |
| 15 | its , honestly it was and eventually of course it did come out and there 's always been a gap because the one behind |
| 16 | Yes it did come to think of it . |