Example sentences of "[vb past] they come " in BNC.
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| 1 | But how did they come about ? |
| 2 | Poets plunged perpetually through thickets , climbed mountains , mapped new continents ; whose were they , I wondered , where did they come from ? |
| 3 | To repeat questions posed earlier : what have these to say , and how did they come to be ? |
| 4 | But how did they come about ? |
| 5 | ‘ How did they come by Titans … |
| 6 | Or did they come straight down from antique gods ? |
| 7 | Finally , some 520 million year old teeth found in fossilised form have long been a controversial subject — did they come from an early vertebrate creature ? |
| 8 | How did they come to see such jobs as desirable ? |
| 9 | Why did they come to Moscow first ? ’ |
| 10 | Where did they come from ? |
| 11 | Nor did they come about through the falsification of bold conjectures and the continual replacement of one bold conjecture by another . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 13 | Did they come to you at all ? |
| 14 | the tinkers , did they come up with their own scythes ? |
| 15 | Not until they had worked ( this time 2 men one boy ) another three months till August did they come out of debt having an advance of £19 : 0s. : 0d. and having a balance due to them of £14 : 3s. : 5d . |
| 16 | Did they come and visit your house ? |
| 17 | How did they come into existence on Earth , before life was there ? |
| 18 | ‘ When did they come ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Then why did they come so far ? |
| 20 | Where did they come from ? ’ |
| 21 | Did they come back ? |
| 22 | Where did they come from mostly ? |
| 23 | Where did they come from , those sudden rumours that ran about the country like little trails of fire spread underground in a dry summer ? |
| 24 | ‘ Where the devil did they come from at this time in the morning ? |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | Why did they come on raids and why did they burn and steal ? |
| 27 | What sort of countries did they come from and what sort of life did they lead ? |
| 28 | To get back to what method did they come up with ? |
| 29 | How , then , did they come into existence ? |
| 30 | Why did they come back ? ’ |