Example sentences of "when it [vb past] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when it got to lunchtime today it 's been quite . |
| 2 | Equally , when it came to promotion to captain in the Mediterranean fleet , interest was obviously a strong influence upon the admiral , for he remarks in July 1799 that ‘ Adam Drummond came to me yesterday . |
| 3 | Be interesting , of course , if fire cover were withdrawn , because then they would have to rustle up the R.A.F. crews from Brize Norton who would n't know their big toes from their elbows when it came to plutonium and highly enriched uranium and chemical explosive . |
| 4 | The fact was , the beleaguered prime minister explained to a restive House of Commons , that when it came to income maintenance , history had turned the welfare state on its head . |
| 5 | There was one great and essential difference , however , between Haussmann and Wren ; the Great Fire of 1666 had given the English architect a head-start when it came to demolition of existing buildings . |
| 6 | When it came to make-believe , he preferred opera , for in opera a knave in disguise is quickly discovered , and is unambiguously a knave , nor is the matter of a song a lie from start to finish . |
| 7 | bloke going on about nothing to them , you know they thoroughly enjoyed doing the songs and everything , but when it came to listening |
| 8 | When it came to choosing who 'd provide the food , the pub won hands down . |
| 9 | When it came to shopping , which is after all one of the main features of urban living , the average Parisian was a provincial who liked to choose his butcher and baker and who wanted them to be near at hand . |
| 10 | but she certainly was sixpence short in the shilling when it came to dress-sense . |
| 11 | While they generally accepted the legitimacy of Whitehall interventions as ‘ bankers ’ to the industry in the annual investment review , when it came to discussion of other policies they were more likely to complain about the time that Whitehall committees and correspondence pre-empted , and to show impatience with civil service style . |
| 12 | The GenTech labs could n't do anything about the common cold and no government had been able to develop a workable public transport system , but when it came to deathware , why , there were wonderful new toys on the market every fall , just in time for Christmas . |
| 13 | The sort of girls who would quickly come to the fore are the sort of Malory-Towers-Swallows-and-Amazons type ; practical down to earth and capable , but there would probably be many unlike that who would be perfectly handless when it came to organisation and practicalities . |
| 14 | But when it came to sport New Zealand has always been turned in . |
| 15 | The first thing that that litany reminds us of is that when it came to success , in the immortal words of Mae West ( put into her mouth by scriptwriter Vincent Lawrence ) , goodness had nothing to do with it . |
| 16 | When it came to slanging matches against Greycoats the Gasworks were well ahead on points ; in examinations and suchlike boring rubbish the Gasworks were quite happy for Greycoats to take precedence . |
| 17 | He was a tough old fellow when it came to it-his older brother had been an artillery colonel — but his health was failing and I guess he felt a younger man would serve his flock the better in the iron times to come . |
| 18 | Now when it came to Paradise Lost , this tension , which is simply excluded from Il Penseroso , is actually inserted into the poem . |
| 19 | His natural musical imagination silenced any lingering doubts , and when it came to music expressly written for the instrument — a brilliant showpiece sonata by the American , Paul Creston ; a new work commissioned from the young Irishman , Kevin O'Connell ; and Dave Heath 's vigorous fantasy , Rumania — McChrystal could not have been more persuasive , brilliantly supported by his accompanist , Kathryn Lenahan . |
| 20 | I must say that the Methodists had the edge when it came to music and poetry , and Granda used to encourage me to take part . |
| 21 | But when it came to music , he was a perfectionist , never satisfied to rest on his fame , he once said ‘ when I give the perfect performance , then I will die ’ . |
| 22 | I think that a chief , or perhaps a leading group would after a while be decided on and priorities set in a way more mature than the boys , but girls would be less imaginative when it came to building shelters and lighting fires , and also less physically able to lift heavy objects and build things . |
| 23 | When it came to boxing , Reg Witter paired me with a bigger boy called Charlie Featherstone , who happened to be quite a friend of mine . |
| 24 | A man who was Commander-in-Chief , First Lord of the Treasury , Chancellor of the University of Oxford , Lord High Constable , Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports , Constable of the Tower , Commissioner of the Royal Military College and Military Asylum , Chief Ranger and Keeper of Hyde Park and St. James 's Park and , when he had a week or two free , Home Secretary , Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister , deserved a little respite when it came to correspondence . |
| 25 | For all her university degrees Kate was in the kindergarten class when it came to managing and understanding men , and she 'd do well to remember it . |
| 26 | When it came to subversion , one historian has remarked , ‘ the Coalition was more politically vulnerable than the Nazi Government . ’ |
| 27 | But they put their foot down when it came to maths and they caught me grappling with the colour scheme of a kestrel . |
| 28 | By the end of Saturday morning the whole place was spick and span , with hopefully not too many drops of cleaner on the floor when it came to inspection time . |
| 29 | Until recently , 1p coins topped the league when it came to money lost in or near telephone boxes . |
| 30 | However odd Stubbly 's behaviour had been just lately , I was relying on his basic northern canniness to keep to some vestige of normalcy when it came to money . |