Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [pers pn] come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he thinks perhaps it came from him . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The most fortunate thing was that we found out he came from a village in Essex and by sheer chance Mr Woods came from the same county and knew the same village which gave them something to talk about . ’ |
| 3 | You say sometimes it comes on on line three ? |
| 4 | yes , I know that , but I 'm just explaining how we come to be in Liverpool ! |
| 5 | We want to know how they came into existence and why they are so complicated . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 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 | I do n't know how it came to be , whether it was the the French that really in invented it . |
| 11 | I do n't know how she came in the school . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Not that I was trying to hide where she came from , but I did n't want her to be singled out . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I wanted to know where they came from and why : how they were treated ; and what had become of them . ’ |
| 17 | Nobody seemed to know where they came from , but there they were in the Forest : Kanga and Baby Roo . |
| 18 | Your mother will want to know where they came from . |
| 19 | After a bit , he said , he would want to know where I came from and all . |
| 20 | ‘ To know where it came from . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | You do n't happen to know where it came from , do you ? ’ |
| 23 | I look at it and I want to know where it comes from . |
| 24 | What I do is n't singing about myself , I kinda make up these little stories , I do n't know where they come from … |
| 25 | I do n't know where they come from , they 're breeding . |
| 26 | I suppose the reason I got down to an effort to be objective is that I did n't like the interpretations of my other things — so here I am with an array of alligator pears — about ten of them — calla lilies — four or six — leaves — summer green ones — ranging through yellow to the dark sombre blackish purplish red — eight or ten — horrid yellow sunflowers — two new red cannas — some white birches with yellow leaves — only two that I have no name for and I do n't know where they come from . |
| 27 | Well if I know who they are and I do n't know where they come from I 'll just put who they are day I were talking to them and dash it . |
| 28 | I do n't know where they come from |
| 29 | I do n't know where he comes from , though I think I 've seen him around occasionally . ’ |
| 30 | I , I need it to help me to get to Hanley or something like that and , and he does this all the time , and I look at him and I think well you know fancy being like that , surely we 're in a welfare state , there 's no need for that , I do n't know what his circumstances are , he may be homeless , I do n't know where he comes from and he just appears there and he carries on as if he loves the job , and that 's only in this country , but if you go abroad , many of you have been abroad have n't you ? |