Example sentences of "[pers pn] come to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , when I came to be regressed myself , I was curious as to whether I would ‘ remember ’ anything of a Tudor existence . |
| 2 | That 's how I came to be stuck and sweating , 60 ′ above the boulders ; feet flapping , nose snorting , musty sandstone , fingernails smearing lichen and a jammed knot placed blindly in the dark , keeping it all together . |
| 3 | When I came to be searched , an earnest young man asked me : ‘ Please could you leave the paper on one side and pick it up afterwards ? ’ |
| 4 | We had gone two or three miles when he asked me what I did and how I came to be hitch-hiking . |
| 5 | But I must first finish the tale of how I came to be here . |
| 6 | I came to be capable-as he had said I would — of the most beautifully consistent combinations of apprehensions with little twistles of kinaesthetic intimation . |
| 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 | Whether it was advertised or what but how I came to be there I would n't know . |
| 9 | Wryly I wondered how , after my romantic ideas of training to be a pilot , I came to be defending the Grand Hotel at Scarborough against all comers . |
| 10 | To pinch a famous phrase , the road from Edinburgh to Sarajevo is a long one , and I am not sure how I came to be on it . |
| 11 | And the university provided them , greatly goosed on , I might say , by the then Vice Chancellor Aisa Briggs , who was very excited by the project , and that 's really how I came to be connected with the university . |
| 12 | I came to be with my husband . |
| 13 | Erm and given the wide range of densities , the only conclusion I came to was I should accept forty three workers per hectare . |
| 14 | Even the small talk ( ‘ How did I come to be in the show ? |
| 15 | So how did I come to be in the car in the middle of the night when I should have been in bed sound asleep ? |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps I should tell you a little about myself , Mrs Wilson , ’ he said when the maid had gone , ‘ … a little about my family and Elsie 's place in it and how I come to be looking for her after such a long time . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But , ’ she added , ‘ would you like me to tell you what I do and how I come to be here ? ’ |
| 18 | As they were more frequently summoned , so numbers of them came to be more frequently re-elected and brought increasing continuity from one assembly to the next . |
| 19 | Mr Loveitt intervened with practised skill : ‘ Excuse me , ma'am , ’ and to Midnight : ‘ It must be established first how you came to be the property of Captain Meredith . |
| 20 | The new , Kixx-produced packaging tells you all you need to know about the controls and special weapons ; it even included a few tips on baddie bashing , but gives no idea as to how you came to be doing it or why ! |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ How does it follow from what you 've said that you came to be — ’ He paused and his lips compressed in a cruelly thin line before he seemed to deliberately force away the tension , saying simply , ‘ To be with my brother ? ’ |
| 24 | It would certainly explain how you came to be washed up in Seal Haven . ’ |
| 25 | And thus it was , that February evening , that she came to be standing at the top of the monumental sweep of the staircase , under the huge doorway , pausing for a moment , offering tribute to herself and all her gods . |
| 26 | And thus it was that she came to be , that February evening , standing at the top of the tower block staircase , leaning against the wall and panting a little from her climb , pausing for a moment and thinking gloomy thoughts about life and death . |
| 27 | And thus it was that she came to be , on that February evening , poised at the very crown of the hill in Kensington Gardens , looking down the hill , with her back to Bayswater and home and trembling with the fear that she had at last grown up . |
| 28 | When she told me how she came to be a refugee , she paused reflectively before each statement , conscious that as a foreigner I might not know the history of Palestine before 1948 . |
| 29 | We began by asking her how she came to be in broadcasting . |
| 30 | If , thanks to you , my daughter comes to any harm , I 'll make sure the world knows every detail of how and why she came to be in danger . ’ |