Example sentences of "why [pron] come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , that 's why I come to you , really . |
| 2 | that 's why I come to two pounds separate er |
| 3 | If you care to try building that newsletter with PagePlus , however , you might see why I came to those conclusions . |
| 4 | And what 's why I came to Geneva . |
| 5 | That is why I came to you for advice . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ How do you know that was why I came to you ? |
| 7 | ‘ But that was n't why I came to Slane . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ That 's why I came to Oxford , you see — about Puddephat 's disappearance . ’ |
| 9 | That 's why I came to this veterinary congress . |
| 10 | If , thanks to you , my daughter comes to any harm , I 'll make sure the world knows every detail of how and why she came to be in danger . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't know why she comes round mine . |
| 12 | Yeah , I 'd like you to tell me about erm , what the house was that you left before you came to Harlow and why you came to Harlow ? |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You said your husband was working on a book but that does n't explain why you came to Dublin . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Thomas is the reason why you came to Portugal , ’ he said . |
| 16 | That 's why we came to England , to begin a new life . |
| 17 | Why they came into existence , whether those about which one has information represent the now-visible signs of a systematic attempt by the Ottomans to provide in the provinces muftis of a high standard , appointed by the central government , or whether , on the other hand , they came into existence in a more haphazard way , more by individual than by systematic " governmental " initiative , is difficult to say . |
| 18 | How , then , could the government explain why he came to be in possession of a genuine birth certificate for a non-existent person without embarrassing the CIA , which had given it to him in the first place ? |
| 19 | ‘ And I 'll tell you why he came to you , shall I ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ So that is why he came to the Lodge ! ’ |
| 21 | Apart from in scene nine , where Anderson displays occasional discomfort through his hesitations ( 4 instances , most notably when explaining to Sacha why he came to the Hollars ' apartment ( p. 81 ) , and when giving assurances of what he will do to help Pavel ( p. 83 ) ) , we find very few instances of hesitations or unfinished turns ( no more than one instance of each in scenes seven , eight , ten and sixteen ) . |
| 22 | why he came to earth ? |
| 23 | Very good then , so why he came to earth |
| 24 | Yes to a Mrs Stow before , I 'm sorry we have to tell you like this , anyway do you know why he came to the hotel ? |
| 25 | Like the reader who finds that the chapters of his detective novel have been printed in the wrong order , we may only now be beginning to understand why from the point of view of ego- and superego-development the crime which should be at the beginning ( that of Oedipus ) comes at the end , and why what comes at the beginning ( the oral period ) leads unintelligibly into what should otherwise have been the conclusion of the story ( anal stage , latency ) ! |