Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] came up " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , sir , I went down to see Claudia Cohn-Casson , the anthropologist , whom I have known slightly on and off , whenever she came up to town , over the last few years . ’ |
| 2 | And I remember I do n't know how it came up once talking with Michel Leiris about Surrealism . |
| 3 | anyw anyway erm I was talking to her on the bus not too long ago and , I do n't know how it came up but she was talking about Egypt , and er she 'd been apparently oh some a year or two back cos she did a , an evening course on Egyptology and she went through that , but she was telling me about a friend or friends of hers who 'd been er and told me about the trip . |
| 4 | When asked how he came up with this figure he could n't quite s remember and his department did n't know , so if you put that to one side . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's why I came up , to tell you . |
| 6 | You gave that impression ; that 's why I came up here with you — ’ |
| 7 | Oh that 's why I came up was n't it ? |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm cold , ’ she complained , ‘ I ca n't think why we came up here . ’ |
| 9 | A friend of mine was driving on the M1 when he came up behind everybody 's un-favourite motorist , the one who sits resolutely in the middle land and refuses to move left , no matter how empty the inside lane . |