Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [pers pn] come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ran away from it you see and then when he came back he came to us and he growled a few times at it , so , but erm , backed off you know |
| 4 | And if I remember they came then they came for the Trade Unionist . |
| 5 | In the talk , first Mr Preshous ( Principal of the Bishop 's Castle ommunity College ) recalled how they came to Bishop 's Castle in 1973 when the Borough was celebrating Charter Year marking the 400th anniversary of the granting of the Borough Charter . |
| 6 | It made Times just look super elegant , you know , and yah I , that 's what 's wrong with all the foundries now , they forgot where they came from . |
| 7 | She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it . |
| 8 | No one knew where he came from . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This hypothesis was roughly confirmed by what I saw when I came to the quayside , or what had been the quayside when the lake existed . |
| 11 | Why the hell did n't you come to me when you were so messed up ? |
| 12 | ‘ And why did n't you come to me immediately ? |
| 13 | ‘ You wear trainers at Brownies , why did n't you come in those ? ’ |
| 14 | I , I did n't I came off the council at that time and er I became the president of the gathering . |
| 15 | Oh yes I think so a good thing you 're inviting Ken did n't I to come with us ? |
| 16 | Did n't he come with erm , Nick ? |
| 17 | Why did n't he come to my house for ? |
| 18 | Once she would have chatted , laughed , teased him , asked where he came from , what he did ; now she found it hard to summon up the energy to care . |
| 19 | ‘ Although Steven said he 'd heard arguing , I never had so it came as a complete shock . ’ |
| 20 | Why had n't she come to the hospital ? |
| 21 | I said well it comes from a man . |
| 22 | ‘ I wondered how it came to be built here . ’ |
| 23 | He took the call in the sitting room and Rain sat on a red-painted kitchen chair and wondered how he came to be living in such circumstances . |
| 24 | Yes , I , I think it would be fair to say that , but you wondered how he came to be the kind of man that he , she found him . |
| 25 | She wondered where it came from , how deep it went . |