Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [pers pn] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want to know how they came into existence and why they are so complicated . |
| 2 | Not that I was trying to hide where she came from , but I did n't want her to be singled out . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I wanted to know where they came from and why : how they were treated ; and what had become of them . ’ |
| 5 | Nobody seemed to know where they came from , but there they were in the Forest : Kanga and Baby Roo . |
| 6 | Your mother will want to know where they came from . |
| 7 | After a bit , he said , he would want to know where I came from and all . |
| 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 | I look at it and I want to know where it comes from . |
| 12 | Amongst Robins 's acquaintances was Robert ( Bob ) Harris , whom Robins had got to know when he came down from Keele and worked with him on Circuit . |
| 13 | He 's bound to know when he comes and finds her gone or going . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Of course , it is not known who the kidnappers of Mr McCarthy are , so we are interested to know why you came to the Government of Iran for help . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I want to know why you came to look for me . ’ |
| 16 | Like everyone else in this market , IBM is trying to make it easy for small sites to install so it comes in a wide variety of fixed configurations that encompass various Token Ring , Ethernet wide area network and SDLC attached devices . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ And I could n't do any more to help so I came here . ’ |
| 19 | time after time I tried to walk away I come to depend on you I give you all the love I had in me . |
| 20 | The fact is most parents seen to be a little unsure about what it is best to do when it comes to letting their children out in the sun . |
| 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 | In gaol he refused to try to understand how he came to be there and during the years of his imprisonment spent much time sobbing in his cell as a desperately hurt child sobs . |
| 23 | Belgian Stefan Everts won the other … british rider Kurt Nicoll gave the home fans something to shout about he came second overall |
| 24 | I 'm not going to behave like some councillors who seem to forget where they 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 | Since crinoids often occur together in large numbers ( 'gardens ' ) with their arms waving in the currents , it is easy to see how they came to acquire their botanical analogy . |
| 27 | ‘ But I 'll have to see how he comes out of the race before deciding if he 'll race again this season . ’ |
| 28 | When yet another mall order catalogue or free gift offer pops through our letter-box , personally addressed , we probably hardly stop to think how they came to have our name and address . |
| 29 | Of course , some were able to pull through on sheer physical strength , quickness and resilience , but there is evidence to suggest that shrewdness or guile were useful properties to have when it came to self-preservation . |
| 30 | I was upstairs bleeding the radiators , all air hisssss air whooshing out everywhere I thought I better check to see when I come in , that thing was full of water ! |