Example sentences of "[verb] come [adv] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , black has come up from the streets and into the drawing room ; overleaf , neutral tones assert themselves . |
| 2 | Once a call has come through from the police the team initiates a ‘ cascade call ’ system where say , one person is responsible for telephoning six other team members . |
| 3 | Margery 's conversation with her husband when she has come home from the Exhibition |
| 4 | Apart from the Head Chef , who is 53 , opposition has come mainly from the Accommodation Manager , who is unqualified but very experienced : he believes that the old ways are the best ways and has generally received the support of his department heads , who owe their positions to him . |
| 5 | No man wants to come home from the war to a wife or sweetheart who shows in her face how much she has worried about him . |
| 6 | Even as I write , my heart is being ‘ roasted ’ because of the pounding music beat coming down from the flat above me . |
| 7 | All are roost sites except Salthouse , where there was a nest and the pellets collected came mainly from the nestlings . |
| 8 | When results began to come in from the field researchers , Highlander served as the collection , organisation and computation centre , and held workshops to allow participants to draw some very marked comparisons and contrasts from the raw data . |
| 9 | Red flares began coming up from the airfield , but the first bombers were committed : they had nowhere to go but down . |
| 10 | It seems an odd time to be holding a political meeting , and Neil may have to come straight from the Palace , but the organisers say that all the participants have pledged to attend . |
| 11 | The inspiration for the first stones seems to come less from the East than from Bronze-age pieces found and imitated . |
| 12 | The doctor said the driver should have come round from the anaesthetic by now . ’ |
| 13 | Some may even have come up from the West Highland Way which runs below Am Bodach in a secluded glen parallel to Loch Leven . |
| 14 | Before them was a landscape that could have come straight from the brush of Giotto . |
| 15 | She was thinking that the girl might have lacked an umbilicus ; might have come straight from the hand of God , who having finished making the mountains had picked a bit of clay from under his thumbnail and fashioned just one more sort of person , perhaps as an experiment . |
| 16 | Otherwise whoever it was would probably have come in from the corridor . |
| 17 | Lisbon purchased a new ground and in 1924 built a first-class pavilion as visiting sides started coming over from the UK . |
| 18 | He told us on more than one occasion that he could not himself contemplate coming down from the House of Lords and denuding it of himself as well as its leader . |
| 19 | Observers commented that the party 's support appeared to come largely from the Kikuyu , the country 's largest ethnic group , and that it lacked the broad-based support enjoyed by FORD . |
| 20 | In the sixth century they were said to have come originally from the island of Scandza , to have migrated to the Black Sea , and thence to have come into contact with the Roman Empire . |
| 21 | The pilot survey should be the crucial stage at which the surveyor is forced to come down from the ivory tower and communicate with the respondents . |
| 22 | I 've come straight from the calving and I did n't even get a cup of tea when I 'd finished . |
| 23 | I 've come straight from the hospital , and now I 'm on my way to St Mary 's , where I 'm due at five . |
| 24 | That 's why I 've come over from the States , ’ Howard said . |
| 25 | Now on Green , now we go , we 've come along from the top of Street right along Road , the toy shop then you get to the Kings Arms and on the other side of the road there was another pub and I ca n't remember the name of it , then there was the fish shop and then the Liberal Club then the pork butchers you 'd think they were all full of meat . |
| 26 | The problem pupils who 've come back from the brink . |
| 27 | Sometimes when I 've come home from the pictures and I let myself in , it 's so quiet I 'd nearly talk to the statues for company . ’ |
| 28 | Urquhart had come straight from the office and was still wearing a grey suit with a red tie . |
| 29 | While we had been on the opposite bank a new barge had come upriver from the direction of Minya and had moored near the end of the Corniche . |
| 30 | She had come over from the east with her Arab mother , who , once in Britain , had married a stranger in order to stay — rather like buying a spare part to save one 's life . |