Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] he come " in BNC.
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| 1 | It informs us of the ‘ forces ’ which shaped Roth 's tours de force of the Sixties and early Seventies , and it informs us of how he came to be where he is now . |
| 2 | In between times , a whole psychological scenario is elaborated , in which we piece together the flavour of his anxiety about the pay , his disappointment at not getting the information out of the lady , his interpretation of what she is like ( inferred from her appearance , actions , and conversation ) , his assessment of her son , his misunderstanding of the son 's errand , and his recollection of how he came to be involved in the interview . |
| 3 | An example of the latter point I made is shown on pg 45 where he tells of how he came to know Eddie . |
| 4 | Now detectives are trying to unravel the mystery of how he came to be found face down in a ditch in a plantation on Scotston Farm , Auchterhouse , nearly eight miles from his home on the Ardler estate in Dundee . |
| 5 | Not once had anybody thought anything of where he came from . |
| 6 | Here , he 's looking in how he came , where is it ? |
| 7 | When in the same issue the journal reviewed Why Men Forget we are reminded of just how many social melodramas there were for this film showed a Socialist spokesman being discharged from a factory and ‘ denouncing wealth in no uncertain terms ’ before inheriting wealth and marrying a society girl and finally deciding to return to the poor folk from whence he came . |
| 8 | the why come from where he cometh |
| 9 | The man had plainly not left British shores and London itself was worlds apart from where he came from . |
| 10 | Left alone now , she fell into a troubled sleep and a dream in which her father was decapitating men in the back yard , and one of them was the nice young man whose name she did n't know nor from where he came . |
| 11 | You do n't get from where he came to where he is now without having some degree of substance . |
| 12 | Erm Eric in , in Manchester from where he comes is extremely well known obviously within the G M B but his record he 's one of the individuals in the trade union movement that I think are becoming somewhat of a rarity these days I know that many of us when we first started in the movement were very easily able , and , and very relaxed about combining trade union and political activities together but of course as time goes on and , you do tend to become more involved in the one and the other , because of course it 's all time-consuming but I can honestly say that in Eric 's case he 's never deviated one iota from his commitment both to the trade union , this union in particular , and to the Party never deviated at all . |
| 13 | I do not know the name , or from where he comes , or from whom he comes . |
| 14 | Quite apart from what the organisers tell him of their intentions , he may have sources of information that have a bearing on how he comes to a conclusion about predicted outcomes . |
| 15 | I have in fact no explanation to offer as to how he came to die , and it may be that no trustworthy explanation will ever be achieved . |
| 16 | When asked on one occasion what he considered Truth to be , it would seem that Gandhi interpreted the question as a request for information as to how he came to know Truth . |
| 17 | ‘ You 've no idea where he must have gone to when he came back from London ? ’ |
| 18 | He went out and got the potatoes for his mother , bought a doughnut and put the kettle on when he came in . |
| 19 | Then Kraal remembered that when Creggan had asked him about where he came from all he had said was ‘ the South ’ and not really told him any more . |
| 20 | And that went on for two or three weeks you know , and I said to the the station master at when he came across on his once a week visits he would come across . |