Example sentences of "come [pron] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How come you 're homeless anyway ? ’ |
| 2 | How come you were all up the garage last night ? |
| 3 | How come you were asleep ? |
| 4 | How come they 're familiar with album tracks from an album that is n't released here yet ? |
| 5 | Britain is not yet ready for a Ministry of Justice , but if such a change were to come it is unlikely that the distinction between administration and policy would endure for long . |
| 6 | If you phone me up and say , Yes I want to come it 's all done . |
| 7 | And how come he 's good enough to go the Sea Cadets but he 's not good enough to go college ? |
| 8 | When evening came I was afraid I could n't trust her , because I did n't know how much you suspected , what clever questions you might have to get at the truth . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Finally , a letter came which was different from the others . |
| 10 | As the dawn came she was weak with exhaustion and relief , watching and willing the first barely perceptible lightening of the sky . |
| 11 | When market day came there was scarce any buying or selling , for all were " labouring for the bread which endureth to eternal life " . |
| 12 | When he came there were two safe sex posters and a drawing of a small child in a field of flowers . |
| 13 | About this time last year I think it was the same week he came there were five judges that he picked every year for fifteen years . |
| 14 | But when they came they were distressing and they particularly distressed the bishop responsible for healing ; because Christians are not supposed to quarrel , and quarrelling about clothes or tinklings or perfume looked like fanaticism or obsession with triviality . |
| 15 | When the end came it was quick , with no warning . |
| 16 | Well before dawn came it was clear that the wound was poisoned and he would not be able to make another hard day 's journey . |
| 17 | Well before dawn came it was clear that the wound was poisoned and he would not be able to make another hard day 's journey . |
| 18 | But when tomorrow came it was wet and foggy . |
| 19 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 20 | When peace came he was one of the committee of six who , having co-opted a further six , devised the settlement : the Dictum of Kenilworth of 31 October 1266 . |
| 21 | ‘ When he came he was weak and in pain . |
| 22 | And when he came he was angry and he said , ‘ What do you want , Elizabeth ? |
| 23 | When the jerk came he was ready for it . |
| 24 | And why I mention that is that the purpose of these people coming they are commercial they are coming here on a commercial basis . |
| 25 | I 'm rather surprised that but there you are this this er this stuff this is coming they were both being one and another er put here and er um um I suppose the idea is that the er two people should be fairly good but I think it 's going somewhere and as I say it 's down again … let's see what else has gone er the the this is just I do n't know how she di ’ how they did this but it must have been fairly hard when they did it and er I think there is n't v-very much there I think . ’ |
| 26 | Yes and they sent for er Mr sent for an ambulance and all , but he refused to get into it , once he heard the ambulance was coming he was all |
| 27 | When he did not come I was surprised . |
| 28 | When she did come we were all excited , but we all got told to get off the concourse and hide ! |
| 29 | When the applause did come it was deafening , and she stood there unsmiling , though with her head bobbing up and down in acceptance of the appreciation . |
| 30 | right every time I come there 's less people . |