Example sentences of "by [Wh det] [pron] have come " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just so , there are certain levels of understanding in coming to believe that Christianity is true , and these may bear no relation to the ‘ stages ’ by which we have come to faith . |
| 2 | He stopped almost opposite the hole by which they had come up , and Hazel joined him . |
| 3 | Indeed , the slope was no more than gentle for some way back along the line by which they had come ; but he had been preoccupied with the idea of danger in the open and had not noticed the change . |
| 4 | Maurice took it without a word and , after a moment , shambled off up the path by which they had come . |
| 5 | Her humble beginnings , the magical means by which she had come to share her half-sister 's privileged life and had later by the queen-dowager 's design taken her place , had been part of some pre-ordained plan . |
| 6 | My best course would have been to follow the track to the village , strike the road , and then to go along the road until I met the track by which I had come from the shore . |
| 7 | Scrambling to his feet , he took the case and hung it by its handle on to a support-post of the fence , then quickly climbed back over , lifted down the case , and hurried back across the glade and down the path by which he had come , finally disappearing into the trees . |
| 8 | Although he came to Parliaments regularly enough , he spent his last twenty years running his diocese with the same competent mediocrity by which he had come by it . |