Example sentences of "how i come to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But , ’ she added , ‘ would you like me to tell you what I do and how I come to be here ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 '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 . |
| 7 | Whether it was advertised or what but how I came to be there I would n't know . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |