Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [verb] they come from " in BNC.
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1 | How were they mined and where did they came from ? |
2 | Poets plunged perpetually through thickets , climbed mountains , mapped new continents ; whose were they , I wondered , where did they come from ? |
3 | Where did they come from ? |
4 | ‘ You have only expressed the shadow of your ideas , because you are n't good enough at drawing or painting , but the ideas , where did they come from ? |
5 | Where did they come from ? ’ |
6 | Where did they come from mostly ? |
7 | Where did they come from , those sudden rumours that ran about the country like little trails of fire spread underground in a dry summer ? |
8 | Thinking they frequented the Creek I would not allow them to be shot but they bent down my grain and destroyed acres of it , and simultaneously disappeared some months after harvest — Where did they come from where do they go ? pray let me hear from you and believe me |
9 | Where did they come from ? |
10 | Where did they come from ? |
11 | Where did they come from ? |
12 | But every eating house in town has puffin on the menu , I say , where do they come from ? |
13 | But what are those categories , and where do they come from ? |
14 | The children visit the church and learn to look at it and describe what they see , and this is in itself a valuable exercise ; but it becomes more valuable still if as well as noting that the fabric is stone , they are provoked to go on to enquire what type of stone , is it all the same stone , why were these types of stone Preferred , where do they come from , and how do they come to be what they are ? |
15 | If political goals and values are not determined by social and economic relationships , where do they come from ? |
16 | ‘ Where do they come from , Alexandra ? ’ |
17 | Where do they come from ? |
18 | come , yeah where do they come from ? |
19 | Where had they come from ? |
20 | Where had they come from ? |
21 | Who were these groups , and where had they come from ? |
22 | Where had they come from before then ? |
23 | And those who wait to get on , singly or in groups , where have they come from ? |
24 | Where have they come from ? |
25 | ‘ Where have they come from ? |