Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh adv] [pron] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | yes , I know that , but I 'm just explaining how we come to be in Liverpool ! |
| 2 | Tennyson explaining how he came to write the Idylls of the King is another . |
| 3 | We want to know how they came into existence and why they are so complicated . |
| 4 | Mr Usta , aged 34 , who lives with his wife , mother and three daughters in a shack in an Istanbul shanty town , described how he came to London last year , attracted by a newspaper advertisement offering money to kidney donors . |
| 5 | I do n't know how they came to send me there . |
| 6 | Although Peter my friend 's he , he did that but er it did n't come to much , they 'd 've saved it or something , one job , cos he was made redundant about three times and er one , one place he was at they 're supposed to have kept it and paying him it now but I do n't know how they came about that bu because actually they we played him a dirty trick , they persuaded him to leave his job and then about nine years or probably less than that later you know and he was out again , redundant and , you know , I think they felt a bit guilty but he only gets about five pounds a week from , off that one , which is |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't even know how they come , ’ said Dinah . |
| 8 | I do not know how I came through the next few months — but , yes , I do . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And I remember I do n't know how it came up once talking with Michel Leiris about Surrealism . |
| 11 | Oh you were , you were asked , somebody , I do n't know how it came about but erm if you found there was something going you went to do it . |
| 12 | I do n't know how it came to be , whether it was the the French that really in invented it . |
| 13 | anyw anyway erm I was talking to her on the bus not too long ago and , I do n't know how it came up but she was talking about Egypt , and er she 'd been apparently oh some a year or two back cos she did a , an evening course on Egyptology and she went through that , but she was telling me about a friend or friends of hers who 'd been er and told me about the trip . |
| 14 | and then getting all the the chassis numbers and that and welding them on to these stolen cars and Because what , you know , er Siobhan 's dad had a , bought a Montego and I do n't know how it came about but they discovered that erm it had a diff I mean it 's had a Maestro engine in it and it had this that and the other . |
| 15 | Yeah and I said to her erm , and she said I do n't know how it came out about her son in the fire service , oh I know she 'd just come back from Orlando , cos she 'd been off work having had a hysterectomy and she had three week 's leave due to her |
| 16 | She had these maps One of them was drawn on an old envelope , a paper one I do n't know how she came by it Maybe she drew it herself , when she was young , and forgot . |
| 17 | I do n't know how she came in the school . |
| 18 | Understanding how they came about is one of the challenges in this affair . |
| 19 | Forget why you came . |
| 20 | Not that I was trying to hide where she came from , but I did n't want her to be singled out . |
| 21 | then they 're open so that at half nine you close them there , or at ten o'clock you close them there and you say when they come through if you 're going out that |
| 22 | Well let me wait , I 'll tell , I 'll sh I 'll tell you what the insurers say when they come back , when it comes . |
| 23 | In fact , the precise effect that radiation has when it comes into contact with the environment in general , and the human body in particular , has been the subject of intense scientific investigation . |
| 24 | Some make preliminary enquiries then wait a few years but many feel it is so desperately important to know where they came from and who they belonged to that they go ahead . |
| 25 | I wanted to know where they came from and why : how they were treated ; and what had become of them . ’ |
| 26 | Nobody seemed to know where they came from , but there they were in the Forest : Kanga and Baby Roo . |
| 27 | Your mother will want to know where they came from . |
| 28 | After a bit , he said , he would want to know where I came from and all . |
| 29 | ‘ To know where it came from . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |