Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [vb past] to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or was that just based on you being there whenever you had to be there . |
| 2 | But I must first finish the tale of how I came to be here . |
| 3 | Whether it was advertised or what but how I came to be there I would n't know . |
| 4 | She sipped absently , so desperate to remember who she was and how she came to be here that the mug was empty before she realised it . |
| 5 | That was still the thought in her mind as she struck the ground , not knowing how she came to be there , as one never knows , having suffered a blow aimed from behind which came at her like a thunderbolt , felled her in the presence of a hundred indifferent spectators and left her prostrate , struggling as in those terrible lodging-house dreams , to get up , to breathe , while the weasel-pack fell on top of her , shrieking with laughter . |
| 6 | How she longed to be indoors , snuggled up in bed , driving out of her system the damp cold , and the misery of parting from Len , with a hot-water bottle and impossible dreams of their future life together . |
| 7 | I think the reason why it is so is that Darwinism is , in essence , a theory about the origin of man — a lot of things as well , but it includes a theory about how we came to be here . |
| 8 | Or it might suggest that the religious symbols , by which men and women have conferred meaning on their lives , meet such pressing psychological needs that they remain impervious to scientific frames of meaning , which , in the last analysis , only dictate how things are and how they came to be so , without pretending to answer the why and the wherefore . |
| 9 | No one knows how they got to be so diverse , though Dr Humphry Greenwood , of London 's Natural History Museum , has suggested that the water in Lake Victoria has at times been lower than now , with the fringes separated into pools . |
| 10 | You wondered how they contrived to be so rich from dealing in paintings . |
| 11 | He could n't remember how he came to be here . |
| 12 | In gaol he refused to try to understand how he came to be there and during the years of his imprisonment spent much time sobbing in his cell as a desperately hurt child sobs . |
| 13 | ‘ This is why I had to be so careful , Meredith , ’ he said tightly . |
| 14 | There were more gang symbols on the walls of East Los Angeles than in Norwalk , where they seemed to be everywhere . |