Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [pron] come to " in BNC.

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1 yes , I know that , but I 'm just explaining how we come to be in Liverpool !
2 That was still the thought in her mind as she struck the ground , not knowing how she came to be there , as one never knows , having suffered a blow aimed from behind which came at her like a thunderbolt , felled her in the presence of a hundred indifferent spectators and left her prostrate , struggling as in those terrible lodging-house dreams , to get up , to breathe , while the weasel-pack fell on top of her , shrieking with laughter .
3 Then we clad and ran off home then we went back mishchifing again we came to a boy and shoved he down in the grass and piched is sweet and then we ran off then I made a apple bom then I chudet it then we went home .
4 ‘ You said your husband was working on a book but that does n't explain why you came to Dublin . ’
5 I do n't know how it came to be shown at the Carlton , East Ham , but one Sunday my parents took me to see The Sheep Has Five Legs starring the French comedian Fernandel .
6 I do n't know how it came to be , whether it was the the French that really in invented it .
7 He could n't remember how he came to be here .
8 Why did n't he come to my house for ?
9 ‘ And why did n't you come to me immediately ?
10 Why do n't you come to us ? ’ she said .
11 Why do n't you come to my flat ? ’ she suggested .
12 Why do n't you come to my auntie 's with me ?
13 Why do n't you come to the villa , and I 'll cook you a meal and we can listen to the folk singer by the pool ? ’
14 ‘ I say , I 've just had the most marvellous idea — why do n't you come to Czechoslovakia with me ? ’
15 And I said well if y why do n't you come to us ?
16 Why do n't you come to Nettos with us Kath ?
17 Why do n't you come to English this afternoon , can I borrow your notes ?
18 I said the libraries are closed on Wednesdays and Fridays , why do n't you come to the library with me today because it 's closed on a Wednesday and Friday .
19 Well , why does n't he come to us ?
20 Why had n't she come to the hospital ?
21 Why have n't you come to lunch with me ?
22 It would certainly explain how you came to be washed up in Seal Haven . ’
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