Example sentences of "coming [adv prt] from [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Creggan was watching the group of people coming along from the other direction and making a lot of noise . |
| 2 | When he reached the top , he stopped on the landing for a moment to allow his eyes to adjust ; there was illumination of a kind , coming down from a grimy skylight set into the angled ceiling , and it showed nothing much more than three old-fashioned doors and a bare wooden floor . |
| 3 | The Macaber , the hooded , skeletal apparition , coming down from the Black Tower to dance amongst the plague-ridden townships of the Middle Ages , leading them in the dread danse macabre , forcing them to dance with him until they dropped … |
| 4 | We passed like wraiths gripping our anoraks against a colder night wind coming down from the deep indigo silhouetted mountains . |
| 5 | The library , which had not been in use since Sir John Merchiston 's death some seven years earlier , was a very pleasant room , positioned opposite the ballroom , between Araminta 's parlour and the big saloon , with panelled walls , quantities of shelving , an ivory inlay desk , leather chairs before the fireplace , and a good deal of light , even on this overcast day , coming in from a glazed door leading out into a pretty walled garden . |
| 6 | He knew that Garvey 's eyes could see nothing , coming in from the relative lightness outdoors . |
| 7 | A restructuring is under way — John McIntyre , vice-president of European Operations has gone , and Europe is now being split into two : the UK , where Engels has recently been appointed managing director , and the continent , where Terry Hall is coming in from the Australian operation to take charge . |
| 8 | These are believed to result , at least in part , from sewage pollution , although there is some evidence that nutrients are also coming in from the open sea . |
| 9 | There was one obvious difference : she was coming through from the Other Side . |
| 10 | You may be lucky enough to hear the sound , coming up from the very earth beneath your feet . |
| 11 | The first was coming back from a fruitless wait for Gríshnakh the orc , dead and burnt that same day , with the smoke from his burning ‘ seen by many watchful eyes ’ . |
| 12 | In a marathon match Harlow defeated his Ely club colleague Kevin King by 9–8 , 7–9 , 9–8 , coming back from a 8–6 deficit to engineer a last-end three . |
| 13 | McKenzie looked as if he might have done enough to retain his crown after coming back from a ninth-round crisis in which he was floored by a two-punch combination to the body . |
| 14 | We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ? |
| 15 | Pearn and the members of his staff had started a monthly publication called Burma Today , giving news brought out by men who had gone in with Wingate , photographs taken by army photographers or by RAF planes on patrol , and first-hand accounts by people smuggled out of occupied Burma or coming out from the growing number of liberated areas . |
| 16 | Well no it does n't , if there 's nothing , if there 's nothing coming round from the other way it does n't go . |