Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i come to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And whenever I come to Moscow , like now , we always meet up why , I saw him only recently . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But , ’ she added , ‘ would you like me to tell you what I do and how I come to be here ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We had gone two or three miles when he asked me what I did and how I came to be hitch-hiking . |
| 6 | But I must first finish the tale of how I came to be here . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Afterwards , when I came to London , I was never really well , although the work I was doing was not hard . ’ |
| 12 | My self-pity was enhanced at four-thirty when I came to camp . |
| 13 | In 1981 when I came to Region it was n't our concern with the big psychiatric hospitals . |
| 14 | As a youngster — I was twelve when I came to this country — I imagined it was only temporary . |
| 15 | It was after ten o'clock when I came to consciousness of the world about me again . |
| 16 | See when I came to Rhos-y-Bol in nineteen thirty three , there was no St David 's Hospital then , all the babies were born at home . |
| 17 | This hypothesis was roughly confirmed by what I saw when I came to the quayside , or what had been the quayside when the lake existed . |
| 18 | He says , you know when I came to this house I had to have split all my furniture into little bits so I could get it up the stairs . |
| 19 | ‘ Every year when I come to Faalifu for four months or so I engage a resident pianist from California . |
| 20 | And that 's where I came to : sitting on a pew in the choirstalls of this dark and deserted Cathedral , sucking my poorly thumb … |
| 21 | And this is where I come to the point of cooperation and maybe more with other unions . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , that 's why I come to you , really . |
| 23 | that 's why I come to two pounds separate er |
| 24 | If you care to try building that newsletter with PagePlus , however , you might see why I came to those conclusions . |
| 25 | And what 's why I came to Geneva . |
| 26 | That is why I came to you for advice . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ How do you know that was why I came to you ? |
| 28 | ‘ But that was n't why I came to Slane . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ That 's why I came to Oxford , you see — about Puddephat 's disappearance . ’ |
| 30 | That 's why I came to this veterinary congress . |