Example sentences of "had come from [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The creditors had come from every corner of the globe and filled up the ballroom of the Sheraton Hotel in Toronto with their lawyers and advisers .
2 On arriving at Luxeuil amid the wild beauty of the Vosges mountains , the volunteers who had come from a year in the trenches with the Legion or from the spartan discomfort of the Ambulance Service , thought that life was almost too good to be true .
3 His instructions had come from a book by Seve Ballesteros called Natural Golf .
4 It had come from a chateau outside Paris , as had some of the other beauties .
5 He spoke to the lad who had come from the workhouse at the same time as Lydia .
6 We learned soon that the money for Frank had come from the wife of our new romantic juvenile , Laurence Wheldon , a blonde and willowy man whose good looks far exceeded his acting powers but whose wife 's money was underwriting the company , to say nothing of her husband 's ambitions .
7 To-day a wild letter had come from the wife of one who refused subordinate office which will give me a sleepless night .
8 And as for Tommy 's death , what proof had he that one stray bullet among so many had come from the pistol of Captain Trentham ?
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