Example sentences of "[conj] how [pron] came " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , Creggan soon found out that none of the eagles seemed to like talking about where they came from or how they came to be in the Cages . |
| 2 | Well I think that how it came . |
| 3 | She learned about their ancestors from him , and how they came to Ireland and built Riverstown . |
| 4 | Or it might suggest that the religious symbols , by which men and women have conferred meaning on their lives , meet such pressing psychological needs that they remain impervious to scientific frames of meaning , which , in the last analysis , only dictate how things are and how they came to be so , without pretending to answer the why and the wherefore . |
| 5 | So , with a day to spare after Watergate , I flew out to Kearney and over an eggs and hash brown breakfast at Captain Smith 's , heard the story of his life and how he came to be piloting the Catalina that sighted the Bismarck . |
| 6 | We had gone two or three miles when he asked me what I did and how I came to be hitch-hiking . |
| 7 | I 'd been thinking for a long time that I 'd welcome the chance to talk with a psychiatrist , although not about captivity — I felt I 'd worked my way through that enough — but about my past and how I came to be the person I was when I was taken hostage . |
| 8 | Chapters i and 4 examined , respectively , her political beliefs and how she came to the leadership of the Conservative party . |
| 9 | One told of their kind offer to look after her garden while she was away and how she came back to find it stripped of all the ripe fruit and the choicest vegetables . |
| 10 | She sipped absently , so desperate to remember who she was and how she came to be here that the mug was empty before she realised it . |
| 11 | But I want to hear now the whole story of your life , and how you came to be with the boys I saw you with that day . ’ |
| 12 | He turned to Sally-Anne who was clinging to his arm , and said , ‘ I know a small chop-house near here , and when you have eaten you may tell me what happened , and how you came to be on your own , under attack . ’ |
| 13 | Subsidiary to that , though still important , are the issues of what it has to say and how it came to be : ‘ sources ’ and ‘ designs ’ once more , both things Tolkien disliked , but useful if not essential to a proper reading . |
| 14 | ‘ Much obliged for that , Albert , ’ said Joe , and explained that he 'd got a guest and how it came about , although he said nothing about the wallet or the men . |
| 15 | To understand the world one is in is to understand where it came from , and how it came ; and it is only because it is understood , or thought to be , that one can aspire to change it . |
| 16 | One day when the terrible moment comes and it is bound to come when we shall be talking of the Serb national catastrophe , when we shall be questioning ourselves about who was responsible for it and how it came about that we are the last nation in Europe to be surrounded by such enemies and such hatred , then many of the great brains of the Academy will find themselves in the dock if they live to see the day . |
| 17 | Klein describes her own feelings in doing this work and how it came about ; Informed by her research in Australia and by talking to women who left in vitro fertilisation ( IVF ) programmes . |
| 18 | This is why and one of the the real problems with this is it 's not that I 'm criticising , it 's just that if in fact you 've got somebody who was appointed as a treasurer , you can in fact get more information out of it , instead of having to guess what we got from where and how it came in . |
| 19 | Whether it was advertised or what but how I came to be there I would n't know . |
| 20 | The small arms ammunition has now been retrieved by army bomb disposal experts , but how it came to be buried there remains a mystery . |