Example sentences of "[verb] come [adv prt] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as I write , my heart is being ‘ roasted ’ because of the pounding music beat coming down from the flat above me . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Red flares began coming up from the airfield , but the first bombers were committed : they had nowhere to go but down . |
| 4 | The doctor said the driver should have come round from the anaesthetic by now . ’ |
| 5 | Some may even have come up from the West Highland Way which runs below Am Bodach in a secluded glen parallel to Loch Leven . |
| 6 | Otherwise whoever it was would probably have come in from the corridor . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The problem pupils who 've come back from the brink . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He had come up from the bottom and made it to the top : no one was to forget that he was at the top and everyone was supposed to forget where he had come from and how he had got where he was . |
| 13 | Louis had come up from the saloon . |
| 14 | Ray had come in from the country bank and we sat with Margaret through the short service . |
| 15 | It was a relief when Stephen Copley , the Senior Chemist , arrived just before ten , bustling in as usual , his rubicund face with its tonsure and fringe of black curly hair glistening as if he had come in from the sun . |
| 16 | So get in the old shed and then we got a load of swedes , we put it in rack and we come out like chips , chips of raw swede , and then sugar beet pulp , which had come back from the factory . |
| 17 | Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty . |
| 18 | On Friday night , Tina phoned just after Jack had come back from the supermarket with the weekend shopping . |
| 19 | he had come back from the meeting with Patrick , and he had opened a bottle of whisky … automatically his had reached for it , found it between his legs , and he was raising it to his lips when the hurried knocking shook the door again . |
| 20 | Not surprisingly , the stars of the night series final were the player who had come back from the World Cup . |
| 21 | The moon , I thought briefly , had come down from the sky and was dancing about in the wood not far ahead . |
| 22 | Apart from her father and her brother Niall who had come down from the watchtower , she was the tallest person present , and her fine clothes lent her a new self-confidence . |
| 23 | It is perfectly clear that long before the procession came into sight , long before the procession had formed , these people in the Markets in their desire to be offended had come down from the side streets and had taken great trouble to he offended , and not only were prepared to be offended but were prepared to throw missiles , stones and other weapons … |
| 24 | For Philip said that board , thick papers , " something , should be put under the tank to raise it , because of some tricky protruding pipes , and Jasper , seeing the stacks of newspaper that had come down from the attic , swiftly gathered them up and built them , while he knelt there beside it , into an eighteen-inch-high platform . |
| 25 | Than the shops gave place to boarding houses and the hill began ; it was a twin of the one he had come down from the car park . |
| 26 | ‘ You have come up from the coast then ? |
| 27 | They should also be in frequent contact with all of the somewhat numerous organisations involved in the rural development of the Western Isles , and with the admirable young people who have come back from the mainland to work at the grass-roots level . |
| 28 | I mean , I know that a lot of the calls they get are practical , people have come back from the Gulf with no money , no home , I mean they 've lived there for years and years and years , without the family network sometimes to keep them going , or friends , friends , they 've , they 've lost all of their , and it 's , it 's not easy . |
| 29 | The important thing to remember , however , is that in many cases no definitive diagnosis can be made until the results have come back from the laboratory and the fact that nothing has been found at the time of the first visit does not mean that the follow-up visit should be missed . |
| 30 | OVER the past two years , Swedish investors have come in from the cold . |