Example sentences of "[Wh adv] come [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucy 's black friend Yvonne puts it this way ; ‘ On the whole right , it 's the people in authority what brings that tension around , you know , 'cos the black people are thinkin' 'ow comes they not gettin' all the jobs , you know . ’ |
| 2 | A few birds with long beaks were poking around by the water : how come they stay so clean when they 're always delving in the mud ? |
| 3 | And in the welcome peace of Jim D'Addario 's office , I pose the obvious question : they 're turning out strings literally by the mile , so how come they 're so expensive ? |
| 4 | How come they 're familiar with album tracks from an album that is n't released here yet ? |
| 5 | How come they use the horse Sir ? |
| 6 | " Then how come they do n't make anything for themselves out of all this hard labor ? " inquired the senator politely . |
| 7 | How come they 're here ? ’ |
| 8 | some of these countries in Africa though they 've got like compared with the population , they 've got loads of land , compared with somewhere say like , like U K , so if that 's the case , how come they 've got so much surplus labour ? |
| 9 | It , it w it would have been nice to have asked him , you know , how come they took it ? |
| 10 | How come they do n't go ? |
| 11 | How come they can take time off yet you ca n't ? |
| 12 | How come they use the same box office , I suppose they would would n't they ? |
| 13 | How come they are |
| 14 | How come they use this then Cath ? |
| 15 | What 's , so how come they 're very wet . |
| 16 | If this is the case , how come they go on so blooming long ! |
| 17 | How come they ca n't get the right one ? |
| 18 | How come what ? |
| 19 | She could see , as plain as the nose on her face , that here was a man of the self-centred , philandering , dangerous variety , the kind of man no girl in her right mind would risk getting involved with … so how come her hormones were letting her down in this maddening way ? |
| 20 | Secondly , if England 's minders were fit to work at a half decent night club , how come their client was left rolling in the gutter early in the game ? |
| 21 | How come we can send a spacecraft to Venus or write the Bible on a microchip yet remain incapable of operating a sophisticated transportation network when the temperature drops just a few degrees below zero ? |
| 22 | Now there 's a new twist : how come we can know when a missile is even threatening to fall on Tel Aviv or Riyadh or Dharan , yet remain ignorant of when the next train will leave Waterloo station — or where it is heading ? |
| 23 | ‘ How come we suddenly need a cox ? ’ |
| 24 | If she was at a rave , how come we have n't had anything from the patrol cars about it ? ’ |
| 25 | The bloke do n't want to give them back , that 's how come we got involved . |
| 26 | How come we 're leaving ? |
| 27 | How come we have believed what we have seen and seen what we have believed ? |
| 28 | Er what 's it say how glorious er what 's it say about good news er , the feet , how come we are the feet of those who |
| 29 | Yeah it says , Romans ten , verse thirteen , for every everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah , will be saved , however , how will they call on him if in him they 'd not put faith , how in turn will they put faith in him , if him they 've not heard , how in turn will they hear without someone to preach , how in turn will they preach unless they 've been sent forth , just as it is written , how come we are at the feet of those who declare good news of good things well that 's more or less what we were saying is n't it ? |
| 30 | Well ho is this is E and F , thirty three , thirty five , how come we got point eight five and point nine ? |