Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [adv] [pers pn] come [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Your mother will want to know where they came from .
2 After a bit , he said , he would want to know where I came from and all .
3 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 .
4 You do n't happen to know where it came from , do you ? ’
5 They would tell sing where they came from and who they saw and all the way up they came .
6 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 .
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