Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh adv] it came " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And I remember I do n't know how it came up once talking with Michel Leiris about Surrealism . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I do n't know how it came to be , whether it was the the French that really in invented it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | ‘ To know where it came from . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You do n't happen to know where it came from , do you ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't look at me , ’ said Dolly , ‘ I do n't know where it came from . |
| 12 | Victor and George ended up riding a spare horse — I do n't know where it came from — and then we went to where they 'd come from . |
| 13 | If he has ‘ style ’ he does n't know where it came from or what it is . |
| 14 | Oh I do n't know where it came from it 's been a long time . |
| 15 | I do n't understand it but I seem to have found some extra money in my purse and I do n't know where it came from . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , who cares where it came from ! ’ screamed Mavis , as the wolf came a few steps further into the room . |
| 17 | I did n't realize I did n't realize we had such a tight schedule and it reminded me when they got the plan , well I do n't know when it came through , but I opened it today and . |
| 18 | She could not remember where it came from , but she muttered the line to herself , and the mutter took root in her stomach , grew and blossomed into an enormous belly laugh . |
| 19 | " I love the idea of that sort of gift , because it 's so special and you always remember where it came from and who gave it to you . " |
| 20 | We even know where it came from . |
| 21 | I cram the minute halfway back into the stack of papers in the Quaker Oats box to mark where it came from and pick up the box . |
| 22 | Then at least you can appreciate how it came about . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He went from the reputable experts to the shadier middlemen , who traded in dubious goods , and from them to those who traded in anything without asking where it came from . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | China was so remote from Europe that when silk first became available for the wealthier classes in Imperial Rome no one knew where it came from , but the fact that it reached Rome shows that these two civilizations were not totally devoid of contact with each other . |
| 27 | And then you can get back , and use the inverse function get back , from your answer you can tell where it came from . |
| 28 | But they could be seriously jeopardised by the Zambian and Zimbabwean proposal because there is no adequate system for marking skins , and once a pelt has reached the fur markets of Frankfurt , London or New York there is no realistic way of knowing where it came from . |
| 29 | Ask Jacob Manor about the land that belonged to Mrs Zamzam 's husband in the village of Um Al-Farajh and he could immediately explain how it came into the hands of the development authority and was then leased to the village of Ben Ami . |
| 30 | Robert explains how it came together … |