Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | some of these countries in Africa though they 've got like compared with the population , they 've got loads of land , compared with somewhere say like , like U K , so if that 's the case , how come they 've got so much surplus labour ? |
| 2 | The bloke do n't want to give them back , that 's how come we got involved . |
| 3 | How come we have believed what we have seen and seen what we have believed ? |
| 4 | Copy one disc onto another disc , how come I 've done that ? |
| 5 | Gardner 's script contains other doubtful gems such as , ‘ I keep thinking , how come I 've got kids and I 'm only eighteen years old . |
| 6 | How come I 've got a yoghurt left then ? |
| 7 | ‘ But how come I felt stretched ? |
| 8 | How come you 've ended up here ? ’ |
| 9 | How come you 've got a decent chef ? ’ he asked Amiss , who at that moment entered the room . |
| 10 | how come you 've got two boxes then ? |
| 11 | How come you 've got two Thomas ? |
| 12 | How come you 've got curly hair ? |
| 13 | But how come you 've got a negative ? |
| 14 | So , how come you managed to sleep in again ? |
| 15 | How come you keep saying She , then ? |
| 16 | 3 ) If Washburn has discovered the centre of the universe within our own solar system , how come it has taken them so long to tell anybody about it ? |
| 17 | But how come she got invited by the Reagans … ? |
| 18 | Hardest unimportant question to get out of my mind : that Nalgo ad about the poll tax — how come she 's got a staircase in her kitchen ? |
| 19 | How d' ya mean credited with it ? |
| 20 | ‘ How d' you get thrown out of ffeatherstonehaugh 's anyway ? ’ asked Pooley . |
| 21 | How on a sudden lost , defaced , deflowered and now to death devote , rather how has thou yielded to transgress the strict forbiddance , how to violate the sacred fruit forbidden . |
| 22 | you do n't do any for a month or so , you think oh I was bombing through these , now where do how do I get started ? |
| 23 | Very little debate about how to manage it has taken place . |
| 24 | It was impossible not to notice how aroused he had become , and she thought of all the women who would envy her for being in this situation . |
| 25 | And how dared he try to bolster up his male ego at her expense when he had made it so plain he did n't care a damn for her as a person ? |
| 26 | How dared he try to blame her for what had happened ? |
| 27 | How did they avoid coating themselves in iron oxides , which would quickly shut off the bacteria from the solar energy they demand ? |
| 28 | How did they manage to get this far into German-held territory ? |
| 29 | Yet how did they manage to stay red and substantial ( or , in Aunt Margaret 's case , intermittently substantial ) when they lived under the weight of Uncle Philip , the Beast of the Apocalypse ? |
| 30 | If the key role in opposing James 's pro-Catholic policies came from the Anglican establishment , and in particular from the clergy , how did they justify doing this , given their professed attachment to the principles of non-resistance and passive obedience ? |