Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [pers pn] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you hang about after 10pm they come over and say ‘ If you lot ai n't out of here in five minutes , you 're nicked , the lot of you . ’ |
| 2 | I mean , there are n't actually that many out where I come from . ’ |
| 3 | What we need is a perspicuous representation of our use of the word ‘ remember ’ , and of how we come to use words like ‘ yesterday ’ . |
| 4 | Now , balance sheet with the lower debt and promising cash flow , of course , impacts on financial ratios and I think that this is the best measure of how we come through nineteen ninety one rather than the profits . |
| 5 | It is as though , in our theory of how we came to exist , we are allowed to postulate a certain ration of luck . |
| 6 | Now , you , you could have the linear ordering that 's an alternative proposal erm , but then you 've actually got erm you 've got to come up with a kind of proper account of these structures of how they come about and of the relation and then you 've got to check it out against all the other data and all I can say is as it happens , I 've tried that and it does n't work but that 's only and we want to find out if you can see that the quite a long way . |
| 7 | An account of how they come to have communicative significance , and different communicative significances , can be given in terms of the flouting of the maxim of Quantity . |
| 8 | In part the style is an acknowledgement of how she came to the leadership , and in part also a reaction to previous leaders . |
| 9 | J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. , 1972 ) she tells of her first meeting with the composer , of his influence on her technique and interpretation , of how she came to terms with the music , of Plante and other virtuosi , and gives a detailed analysis of various pieces . |
| 10 | But I must first finish the tale of how I came to be here . |
| 11 | The fascinating details of how it came to be are still waiting to be found . |
| 12 | A legend concerning the London North Western Railway Company ‘ Whitworth ’ class locomotive named The Luck of Edenhall No 90 — what an unusual name — but then the story of how it came by the name is unusual too . |
| 13 | STRAIGHT OUT OF BROOKLYN Unfortunately more interesting than 19-year-old Matty Rich 's film — a slice-of-Brooklyn melodrama crusted with symbolism and piety — is the story of how it came to be made : ambitious kid from Brooklyn drops out of film school , blags some equipment and funds a film on the back of radio appeals . |
| 14 | Two or three weeks away from the home environment in a tense atmosphere at the site of a recently crashed aircraft where everyone , officials and public alike , is looking to you to resolve the puzzle of how it came about can be stimulating , even exciting . |
| 15 | ‘ Father , when it became known that Saint Winifred 's relics had been loaded with the timber for Ramsey , when there was no longer any doubt of how it came there — for we knew , every man of us , that there was none , for who else could it have been ? — then I was burning with anger against the thief who had dared such sacrilege against her , and such a gross offence against our house . |
| 16 | Can you give some idea of how it came about that you in fact decided strike ? |
| 17 | Finally , we learn how the telescope has been used to track spacecraft — there is an exciting account of how it came to be the main receiving station for the first moonwalk . |
| 18 | I expect to read a full and objective description of what 's on the site now , together with a documented reconstruction of how it came to be like that . |
| 19 | So out of yesterday it was how to put the structure together as the delivery of how it came across and what the audience 's reaction was to it . |
| 20 | The problem of how it comes about that individuals develop as either males or females was solved , at least in principle , during the first quarter of this century . |
| 21 | It informs us of the ‘ forces ’ which shaped Roth 's tours de force of the Sixties and early Seventies , and it informs us of how he came to be where he is now . |
| 22 | In between times , a whole psychological scenario is elaborated , in which we piece together the flavour of his anxiety about the pay , his disappointment at not getting the information out of the lady , his interpretation of what she is like ( inferred from her appearance , actions , and conversation ) , his assessment of her son , his misunderstanding of the son 's errand , and his recollection of how he came to be involved in the interview . |
| 23 | An example of the latter point I made is shown on pg 45 where he tells of how he came to know Eddie . |
| 24 | Now detectives are trying to unravel the mystery of how he came to be found face down in a ditch in a plantation on Scotston Farm , Auchterhouse , nearly eight miles from his home on the Ardler estate in Dundee . |
| 25 | It is not unusual for parents to be unaware of how you come to be there . |
| 26 | And I 'm still waiting for your explanation of how you come to be here . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I know naught of how you came into this plight , girl , and I care little enough , but this I know — you have broken the spell-wall and opened Andernesse to the powers of the dark ! |
| 28 | Until recently it had always been assumed that all calories are the same , regardless of where they came from . |
| 29 | Without an account of where we come from we can not know who we are . |
| 30 | ‘ We have no knowledge of where it came from , ’ said a spokesman . |