Example sentences of "how [verb] [pron] come to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How d' you come to be here today ? ’ |
| 2 | How dared he come to his , Philip 's place , and act like a bird shooter . |
| 3 | To repeat questions posed earlier : what have these to say , and how did they come to be ? |
| 4 | So how did he come to be involved in the Vauxhall Layla advert ? |
| 5 | And how did he come to be that ? |
| 6 | How did he come to be murdered ? |
| 7 | ‘ How did she come to be on the dahabeeyah ? ’ demanded Zeinab . |
| 8 | How did she come to be in the water ? ’ |
| 9 | And then the idea ( how did it come to me ? ) that it must not simply be glass but big glass . |
| 10 | Or rather it is proved — by sleight of hand ; for if the little scene is not momentous , how did it come to be framed , in all its sparsity , by so much white paper ? |
| 11 | How did you come to be an actor ? |
| 12 | How did you come to be here ? ’ |
| 13 | How did you come to that conclusion ? |
| 14 | " But how did you come to be here ? " |
| 15 | And how did you come to be that ? |
| 16 | ‘ How did you come to the town ? ’ she asked , to prevaricate . |
| 17 | How did you come to be Alan 's employee , when he was initially yours ? ’ |
| 18 | Then , much louder , ‘ How did you come to Winchester ? |
| 19 | ‘ How did you come to be there ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ How did you come to be involved with ffeatherstonehaugh 's , sir ? |
| 21 | How did you come to the art scene in pre-war Britain ? |
| 22 | Before we talk about the er er getting to the purpose of our meeting , erm , how long were you , how did you come to in the first place ? |
| 23 | So tell me Mrs how did you come to with Friends Provident in the first place ? |
| 24 | which we need to be and once we get into the rhythm I 'm sure it 'll all be a lot easier but you seem to have a calmness about your how you speak which is good and you know I 'm sure I 'll go to pieces but erm yeah it was just , and what I 've picked up on as you say where it 's er how did you come to Friends Provident bum de bum de bum , we 're going through erm a structured erm spiel if you like and then they 're saying well I do n't really wan na give you any you know , recommendations at this moment and erm what we should do there is , is I suppose apack that is n't it ? |
| 25 | How did you come to grips with that ? |
| 26 | Even the small talk ( ‘ How did I come to be in the show ? |
| 27 | So how did I come to be in the car in the middle of the night when I should have been in bed sound asleep ? |
| 28 | Erm as well as all that erm I 'll just try and add in the extra bits that Erm what was oh sorry how did I come to Friends Provident then ? |
| 29 | How did I come to Friends Provident ? |
| 30 | 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 ? |