Example sentences of "of [Wh adv] it come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you give some idea of how it came about that you in fact decided strike ? |
| 2 | The fascinating details of how it came to be are still waiting to be found . |
| 3 | STRAIGHT OUT OF BROOKLYN Unfortunately more interesting than 19-year-old Matty Rich 's film — a slice-of-Brooklyn melodrama crusted with symbolism and piety — is the story of how it came to be made : ambitious kid from Brooklyn drops out of film school , blags some equipment and funds a film on the back of radio appeals . |
| 4 | Finally , we learn how the telescope has been used to track spacecraft — there is an exciting account of how it came to be the main receiving station for the first moonwalk . |
| 5 | I expect to read a full and objective description of what 's on the site now , together with a documented reconstruction of how it came to be like that . |
| 6 | A legend concerning the London North Western Railway Company ‘ Whitworth ’ class locomotive named The Luck of Edenhall No 90 — what an unusual name — but then the story of how it came by the name is unusual too . |
| 7 | ‘ We have no knowledge of where it came from , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 8 | We never have a satisfactory explanation of where it comes from . |
| 9 | ‘ Here am I , ’ he explained , ‘ with inside information about a very good story , and I ca n't use it because of where it comes from . |