Example sentences of "it come [adv prt] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but as I wrote this and you know put in the acc th the conflict , it came up to two thousand five hundred words and I taped it and timed it and I 've been butchering it and cutting out all the really nice little sentences and the nice sentences and I 've got it down to two one sixty and now with that announcement on the end , as I 've got it taped , it 's fourteen minutes fifty-nine seconds for a fifteen minute slot , so it 's about as precise as you 're gon na get it . |
| 2 | The first game was good , but it came down to one player , Garrison , who was desperate to win , and one player , Graff , who just kind of did n't want to lose . |
| 3 | In essence , it came down to this : that he felt meaningless , empty , almost invisible unless one or more of her sex were doting on him . |
| 4 | It came down to three grotty , scrappy bits of land that no-one since Adolf Hitler had shown any interest in … |
| 5 | But er you know it come down to forty-six and usually only do about thirty-eight now that is , sommat like and er it 's only half a week . |
| 6 | Well but it comes up to closer to the productivity of the independent middle peasant . |
| 7 | On the criteria we 've been talking about today , so find yourself a partner that you have n't worked with today somebody erm if you go in the same group that Kathy 's in because then if it comes up to four o'clock Kathy wants to go then you can be the other partner you 've got half an hour to put on one sheet of paper clearly and concisely what we 've done on communications . |
| 8 | Actually it comes out to four hundred cos I have n't drawn these properly come up come out to three fifty . |
| 9 | Erm , so if you , if you do the easy one , and let's say it comes out to ten pence per gram , and you do the difficult one and it comes to a hundred and three pence per gram , right , or point nought one pence per gram |
| 10 | ‘ Anyway , so far it comes back to this : either it 's a matter of money , or the whole thing revolves around the two women , and the character of Walter Machin . ’ |
| 11 | That shoulder obviously still him a problem he seems to be holding it a little bit awkwardly as it comes in to Speedy now . |
| 12 | So when does the value come down to zero , well it comes down to zero when the bit we 're taking away is equal to that . |
| 13 | MACAULEY Culkin 's Kevin may be a dab hand with a booby trap but when it comes down to straightforward , grimy-faced scallywaggery , there are a couple of Irish lads in Into The West who could give him a run for his money . |
| 14 | ‘ At the end of the day it comes down to individual decisions about individual jobs , ’ says Fairweather . |
| 15 | To sum up , when buying clubs it comes down to two things — that you must seek the judgement of a qualified professional golfer you trust , and the clubs have to feel right and look right for you . |
| 16 | It all comes down to who holds the purse strings , and at the point when it comes down to that level , something has gone wrong . |
| 17 | If it comes down to that , I would need to think it over . |
| 18 | Because he had the right attitude , he did n't quibble , he did n't moan he did n't criticize , he just got on with the job , and is n't that a little area that we can all work on somewhere , it comes down to that little bit of territory even , does n't it , if we 're given in the ministry and we say oh not there again , I worked that last time , I know that person in that house they 're all working , called on them and when they , I just do n't get , I just do n't get on with them , they 're not me at all , you see , we , we can go on and on in all kinds of areas ca n't we in the truth , but what an attitude to have and I thought this was a lovely expression here , look , erm , on page twenty seven , just about a third of the way down on the right hand side , he says as I have opportunity , I encourage new ones at that , that would take advantage of all privileged service , they 're given , and to learn to be content , and happy with it and just in the next paragraph at the end he says be happy and content in your present circumstances and blossom in a spiritual way in the soil where you are planted is n't that a lo a lovely expression , does n't that show a man who is spiritually alive and alert and awake , and is n't that how we should be , would n't the congregation flow and move along forward , so much better and more unitedly if we all have that lovely attitude that Jehovah service , no matter what it is , we ca n't all be public speakers , we ca n't all be giving a public talk at the district assembly can we ? |
| 19 | In the end it comes down to personal prejudice . |
| 20 | ‘ You might be a whizz at your job , you might have the charisma of ten men , but when it comes down to normal decent human values you 're nothing . |
| 21 | They wanted to keep them happy , they let them carry on with their religion , it did n't interest them but when it comes down to serious things like killing erm political agitators , the Romans wanted to deal with that themselves . |
| 22 | When we do so , we find that the inflation rate comes down somewhat , but it comes down to 7.9 per cent. , which is still 2.5 per cent . |
| 23 | The wh the whole point is Steve , when it comes down to basic facts , it should have had a proper sealed unit chiller on it when it was new . |
| 24 | It comes down to this : a rejection of the single most important human fact between Newton and the Atomic Bomb — the sudden multiple increase of the earth 's population , the coming into existence of the MASSES . |
| 25 | It comes down to this : can the ERM be modified to preserve some of the benefits of exchange-rate stability , while allowing governments greater freedom to change monetary policy according to domestic economic circumstances ? |
| 26 | And yet , when you 've tried all the rest , it comes down to this , and it makes you feel better anyway , but it 's the last resort |