if a ship comes about, it changes direction
to happen, especially by chance
But it can come about in many forms.
Crunch time came about 12 years ago.
Great changes came about in their lives and left him no one else to cling to.
He sensed that his younger generation'wanted to know how those years came about'.
I can't think how that came about, can you?
I don’t know how it came about that we stopped loving each other.
I promised them the chance to come about 20 years ago and so the time was now.
Indeed, he doesn't say how it comes about at all.
It came about because the last election produced a result that gave no party the arithmetic to form a viable government without the other.
My epiphany came about three years after I lost my sight.
My songs come about in many different ways.
She was sure the change must come about slowly.
That's when the idea of the festival came about; it just naturally evolved.
The drugs came about a year before I went into rehab.
The increase in production has come about through the use of technology.
The international scheme came about after taking feedback from players.
The negligence has not just come about this season: it has been going on for three or four years.
The negotiations come about a year after the companies last discussed a tie-up.
The other changes have come about because of injury.
The phrase came about after workers said they were suffering anger at frustration at work, similar to that felt by motorists.
The police came about ten minutes after the owner made the discovery and took the girl's body outside.
There are added complications here that could come about where circumstances change.
What you think about comes about.
Which came about, he says, purely by accident.
comes about
coming about
came about
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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