Example sentences of "where it come " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Never mind where it came from , just give me a hand to splash it around . ’ |
| 2 | She could not remember where it came from , but she muttered the line to herself , and the mutter took root in her stomach , grew and blossomed into an enormous belly laugh . |
| 3 | ‘ We have no knowledge of where it came from , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 4 | Of the second here illustrated , the Moss Provence , Miller said that it had not long been known in London and the first time he saw it ‘ was in 1727 in the garden of Dr Boerhaave near Leyden who was so good as to give me one of the plants , but from where it came I could not learn . |
| 5 | China was so remote from Europe that when silk first became available for the wealthier classes in Imperial Rome no one knew where it came from , but the fact that it reached Rome shows that these two civilizations were not totally devoid of contact with each other . |
| 6 | Every few minutes a large solid mass breaks off and topples forward in a cascade of loose , glowing material , and comes to rest a few feet from the main mass , leaving a fading , sullen red glowing scar to mark the place on the flow where it came from . |
| 7 | But they could be seriously jeopardised by the Zambian and Zimbabwean proposal because there is no adequate system for marking skins , and once a pelt has reached the fur markets of Frankfurt , London or New York there is no realistic way of knowing where it came from . |
| 8 | ( You might also try last year 's ‘ She who weeps ’ [ JMT ] ; the beautiful song New African Blues certainly received a deal of wholly warranted airplay from London jazz station Jazz FM and many people have asked me where it came from . |
| 9 | As to where it came from , no-one really knows , and as can be imagined legends abound . |
| 10 | ‘ To know where it came from . ’ |
| 11 | Mind you , the evidence for the past seven years of the Clarke genius is at last collected on an album that , like the Pet Shop Boys ' ‘ Disco ’ , knows where it came from and is chuffed about it . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't look at me , ’ said Dolly , ‘ I do n't know where it came from . |
| 13 | To understand the world one is in is to understand where it came from , and how it came ; and it is only because it is understood , or thought to be , that one can aspire to change it . |
| 14 | Victor and George ended up riding a spare horse — I do n't know where it came from — and then we went to where they 'd come from . |
| 15 | She thought the name faintly familiar , and faintly Scandinavian , but she did not like to ask where it came from , in case she should have known . |
| 16 | She wondered where it came from , how deep it went . |
| 17 | It 's like a speck of dust drifts down and goes into my eye and I look up to see where it came from and I 'm hit by this tonne of bricks ; it hits me that hard . |
| 18 | He went from the reputable experts to the shadier middlemen , who traded in dubious goods , and from them to those who traded in anything without asking where it came from . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , who cares where it came from ! ’ screamed Mavis , as the wolf came a few steps further into the room . |
| 20 | Inland it extended into Slavonia , where it came into contact with Hungary . |
| 21 | ‘ Tell me where it came from . ’ |
| 22 | Well that practice did go on for a long number of years where the the riveter was the was the boss of the squad and on the Friday night , when er where it came knocking off time , he would collect the wages and he would divide that up between the squad which would be , a holder-on , a rivet boy , er maybe a putter-in , er again in my time , that was mostly a squad . |
| 23 | Not everyone admires the Drunken Poet(s) scene : a ‘ miniature comic drama ’ , ‘ an amusing introduction to the freakish yet lyrical world of the play , [ though ] it possibly blunts the effect of what Purcell had planned as his first scene , the masque at the end of Act II ’ ; ‘ the scene badly disfigures the drama … it is dramatically incongruous and is introduced clumsily ’ ' It might help to know where it came from . |
| 24 | We asked him where it came from in the bible , and he referred us to Exodus chapter 14 . |
| 25 | And then you can get back , and use the inverse function get back , from your answer you can tell where it came from . |
| 26 | If he has ‘ style ’ he does n't know where it came from or what it is . |
| 27 | He did not say where it came from . |
| 28 | " I love the idea of that sort of gift , because it 's so special and you always remember where it came from and who gave it to you . " |
| 29 | You do n't happen to know where it came from , do you ? ’ |
| 30 | When asked by the masters where it came from , he put it down to being ‘ good with my tongue ’ , and they nodded sagely , wondering why he smiled . |