Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I bet you never thought you 'd end up as a social accessory whenever you agreed to come here for a holiday ! |
| 2 | At the sight of his mutilated photo-pass , the Croatians summoned , after some comment between themselves , a senior officer , who listened with growing impatience to Swan 's explanation as to the means whereby he had come by it . |
| 3 | Besides , I want to protect the remains of my privacy ; I do n't want to appear cold-hearted or stubborn ; but I know that when I try to make my life give me its answers to how I have come to my current concerns , I ca n't do it without feeling that I am on the edge of a dangerous fiction of self-description . |
| 4 | His courtesy , however , contained a reticence that did not permit him to ask outright just how she had come by her knowledge of Møn when she spent only a week a year on the island . |
| 5 | He wondered how she had come there , and how long she had been there , and what her voice would be like , and a thousand other ridiculous things , whilst she breathed in and out , ruffling the gold threads of hair . |
| 6 | The worst of it was that Charlotte had intended to emphasize how she had come in search of information , not confrontation . |
| 7 | He remembered every single one of the stolen meetings ; how he had gone to her bedchamber by night , how she had come into the warm drowsy afternoons to find him , when everyone was busy about something and no one knew where anyone was and she would not be missed . |
| 8 | She unfolded the tissue , displayed its contents and explained how she had come to find them . |
| 9 | This last drawing exercise is a summary of the simple process of thinking which leads us into a deeper appreciation of how we have come to be what we are . |
| 10 | ‘ Matters of concern would have included the extent to which United Kingdom residents were investors in the Jersey funds , how they had come to be investors in those funds , how those funds were managed , whether they were kept separate from the United Kingdom funds or whether there was intermingling [ the switching of money between UK and offshore funds ] … and , ultimately , whether the Jersey funds as well as the United Kingdom funds could be properly accounted for . ’ |
| 11 | Whilst dressing the models she tried to chat to them and ask how they had come by their jobs but they were not very forthcoming . |
| 12 | They were to remember how they had come : ‘ You must remember all that road by which the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness . ’ |
| 13 | I was paid good money for 3½ years to do something about the problems of North Shields and a particular component of doing something was describing what things were like , giving an account of how they had come to be like this , and attempting to understand why the process had happened as it had . |
| 14 | At the same time as he was engaged in more political work , Marx attempted to rewrite the history of mankind for the use of the oppressed , so that they would be able to understand the nature of the oppression to which they were subjected , and how it had come about . |
| 15 | Nobody understood , either , how it had come to be there at all . |
| 16 | He knew how it had come to him , and now it was in his hand . |
| 17 | I thought it odd when you wrote and asked her how it had come about an' you got no answer . |
| 18 | I tried my hardest to explain how it had come about . |
| 19 | The ring had taken itself back to where it rightfully belonged , and Cassie hoped that when Johnny next visited the cottage , he would find it there and understand how it had come to be so . |
| 20 | If the DEA had used it to provide a cover identity for somebody in Egypt , it could hardly admit that in open court or explain how it had come by the certificate in the first place . |
| 21 | The Ministry of Defence said that Belgian ammunition of that particular batch had never been supplied to the British Army , and how it had come into Britain was unknown . |
| 22 | In the small hours of the next morning , when they were back at La Gracieuse , after dancing her feet raw with Sam , with Rodet , and with half of Normandy , she told John what had happened and how it had come about . |
| 23 | If we found an object such as a watch upon a heath , even if we did n't know how it had come into existence , its own precision and intricacy of design would force us to conclude that the watch must have had a maker : that there must have existed , at some time , and at some place or other , an artificer or artificers , who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer ; who comprehended its construction , and designed its use . |
| 24 | The eyes that never learn how it has come about |
| 25 | ‘ How it has come about I can not think , but of course we must set things right . ’ |
| 26 | Betty Felton 's tone was a little softer now as she said , ‘ Well , lass , come on , tell us what you 're doin' here and how it 's come about . ’ |
| 27 | The sentence comes from an essay called Eztetyke du Rêve , an eccentric spelling of Esthétique du Rêve ( ‘ Aesthetic of the Dream' ) in which , building on the idea that ‘ the dream is the only right which can not be forbidden ’ , Glauber Rocha described how he had come to realise the revolutionary importance of the mystical in Latin American popular culture . |
| 28 | He related how he had come down to London and systematically searched through the various agencies that might have employed Elsie , how he had tracked down Mrs Wilson and had gone to see her . |
| 29 | ( Quite how he had come by this weapon , since it was cast into the lake at the conclusion of that great king 's reign , is not recorded ! ) |
| 30 | Rebecca West , representing the polite world of letters at this proletarian scene of retribution , was being told by an elderly man how he had come back from viewing his grandchildren 's bodies at the public mortuary and heard the voice of the condemned criminal mocking him over the radio . |