Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [vb mod] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | A consortium led by Spanish state airline Iberia had reportedly deposited US$130,000,000 in a New York bank on Sept. 28 as part of a July 16 agreement whereby it would come up with $260,000,000 in cash and $2,100 million in debt-for-equity swaps to buy 85 per cent of the state airline Aerolíneas Argentinas [ see p. 37608 ] . |
| 2 | ‘ It was funny , people were always saying things about her , about how she 'd come to no good — ’ He stopped again . |
| 3 | And after that she seemed happy the rest of the way , saying how lovely it had been to see them even for such a short time and how she 'd come down again when she could , but it was such a long way and the trains were so crowded with soldiers and she had had to take two whole days off from the ambulance station . |
| 4 | He could n't help noticing how much she was being affected ; it was a sign , he supposed , of how she 'd come to consider the valley her home and its people her own . |
| 5 | She did n't know how she 'd come by it , and she 'd only the vaguest memories of her journey to this place . |
| 6 | Instead , each of us is thought of as starting more or less from scratch and the philosophical questions are how we can come from such a state , via our awareness of the passing show of sensory experience , to the sophisticated knowledge which we all have as members of a modern society . |
| 7 | Having accounted for how action types might acquire conventional but unstructured meanings , he advances straightaway to a discussion of how one might come into an alien community and find evidence that their linguistic interactions are structured ( syntactically and semantically ) . |
| 8 | In the High Court , Taylor J found it ‘ very difficult to see how one could come to any other conclusion than that J had a learning difficulty ’ . |
| 9 | If partnerships find the case proven they should consider how the tensions towards fragmentation might be reduced and how they might come to be a better understanding of the responsibilities and common commitments which are essential in any decentralised organisation . |
| 10 | I dread the mornings — wondering how they will come down — either sweet and reasonable or downright objectionable . ’ |
| 11 | I have n't the remotest idea cos I do n't know how it would come out . |
| 12 | In elaborating such proposals there is admittedly a strong temptation to indulge in political rationalism : they are by nature proposals which give an important role to action on the part of a ‘ socialist government ’ or the ‘ state ’ within which a socialist government is installed , yet it is often unclear what such a socialist government would look like , how it might come into being and from where it would draw its mass support . |
| 13 | And at the same time , it 's the achievement of it , it 's how i how it will come everywhere . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , Dick ; the makings of a good one there , though I do n't know how he 'll come off in the Forces . ’ |
| 15 | To her it was indicative of how he 'd come to view their relationship . |
| 16 | A few moments later , balloon of armagnac in hand , I was listening to Dennis recount with great self-satisfaction how he 'd come by the priceless spirit , when our attention was drawn by the sound of running water from the kitchen . |
| 17 | There was something mysterious about him and she wanted to ask so many questions , but he had that locked-in look , so that even if she risked Salt 's caustic tongue and asked outright about how he 'd come to be a slave , what it was like in Jamaica , if Africa was full of cannibals and if he 'd eaten people , she 'd probably get no more than a few shrugs for answers . |
| 18 | Another famous one is where someone may come to you with a problem ostensibly to enlist your help in solving it . |
| 19 | I lived only for the day when I would come into my own . |
| 20 | If I turned precisely one hundred and eighty degrees I would be facing where I 'd come from . |
| 21 | In Lancaster , where I 'd come out , there had always been a mixed scene ; in many places outside the big towns , most of the lesbians and gay men continued to hang together for at least part of the time because there did n't seem enough of us to consider doing much else . |
| 22 | They had people to do that for them half the time , there was no need for it , but it was as if I had to earn my keep , I had to repay what they 'd done for me , with the people that worked there laughing at me behind my back , wondering where I 'd come from , thinking maybe I was no better than them . |
| 23 | that 's why I shall come up and have a look at |
| 24 | Michael must have wondered why I 'd come to visit him disguised as a zebra . |
| 25 | I 'd love to see a service where somebody could come and knock on your door in the morning and say are you alright and call again in the evening , just as if you were in warden assisted accommodation . |
| 26 | Isobel seemed to like danger at second hand , he thought , and wondered again why she should come . |
| 27 | We got a young woman off sick , and you can take her place ; do n't know when she 'll come back , if she ever does . ’ |
| 28 | My daughter is not with me at the moment and I do n't know when she 'll come back . |
| 29 | and obviously Ingy will let us know when she can come and we can talk a little more about the Festival . |
| 30 | ‘ I wondered when you would come ? ’ he called , not bothering to turn . |