Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [pers pn] come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it 's another tank I ca n't prove otherwise but I know one tank er the fourth tank you ca n't empty it , it 's got be syphoned out it comes from the top and er if you went there and just opened the valve you can get a an ounce of diesel out of it . |
| 2 | Being ethnically dissimilar to any of their neighbours , their origin gives rise to conflicting anthropological theories , but when the Toraja themselves are asked where they came from they reply : " Before the dawn of human memory our ancestors descended from the Pleiades in skyships . " |
| 3 | They were to remember where they came from : ‘ Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the Lord your God brought you out with a strong hand and an outstretched arm . ’ |
| 4 | From the later period of canal cutting to the early one of railway building there was clearly a link in the inheriting of a core of toughened labourers and foremen who , even if posterity has chosen to present them as the antithesis of skilled , at very least knew what they were doing when it came to tunnels , cuts and embankments . |
| 5 | 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 . |