Example sentences of "[noun] come [adv prt] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A professor came down from the university to investigate the project . |
| 2 | This may sound harsh , but it seems to me that when we lost our empire our eyes came down from the horizon and looked at our feet . |
| 3 | Erm , it was called the Marseillaise , erm , because the volunteers from Marseilles came up from the south , and entered Paris and they were singing , erm , this one . |
| 4 | One evening Rosslyn 's horse came up from the paddock as usual for his dinner , but instead of practically knocking her over like he normally did in his enthusiasm to get at the food , he stopped quietly at her side and put his head in her hands , saying non-verbally : ‘ I hurt ! ’ |
| 5 | The lads came up from the gill with buckets of water and stood a-row along the brink . |
| 6 | The evening light came through the skylights high overhead , glossing the scurfy backs , the sores , the scabby manes , and a soft echo came back from the walls of the vast , bare concrete building of animal content , feeding . |
| 7 | An unexpected bonus came up from the Uncle Ben 's food team whereby , regardless of the convection temperature , lkg of long grain dry rice cooked with 2.5 litres of water in 20 minutes on full power . |
| 8 | Again , the light level was subterranean , but there were no curtains so a fair amount of yellow light came in from the streetlamps outside . |
| 9 | Then one of the travelling craftsmen came out from the town and lined the cart , trap or wagon we happened to be making : that means he painted the finishing touches , the lines on the wheels and the panels . |
| 10 | Scared pelicans flapped away , and Ellen came up from the galley to see what had caused the commotion . |
| 11 | And then they had the adits coming down from the top . |
| 12 | On the short mixed ridge leading to this minor training summit , you can view an endless stream of parties coming up from the Grands Montets cablecar station for a taste of a real alpine mountaineering . |
| 13 | Led by Major Ronnie Tod , 30 men went ashore and had hardly been gone a few minutes when Dudley Clarke and the commander saw the dark outline of a boat coming in from the sea . |
| 14 | Since the 1920's Berlin has been a city encountered through images : Doblin , Pabst and Isherwood ; the diabolic glamour of Nazism ; Year Zero ; the Airlift ; John Kennedy and spies coming in from the cold ; the generation of " 68 , the stylized desperation of the punk underground , and angels made corporeal . |
| 15 | If , if there was no guidance coming through from the committee . |
| 16 | Every brook coming down from the heights was swollen into a torrent , every valley river gulped these tributaries into its heart , and burst out over the narrow meadows into languid shallows , while in the centre it rushed ahead with treacherous force . |
| 17 | The first of these sets the amount of effect coming in from the JMP 's effects loop — a really good idea and all amps should have this in some form . |
| 18 | He rang off , and it was only minutes before they heard the chug of the engine of his jeep coming down from the hills in the still of the morning . |
| 19 | One example of this is on page 156 when Scout and Jem have discovered that Atticus is sitting outside the county Jail on one of his office chairs and as they cross the square to get nearer to him , four dusty cars come in from the Meridian highway , moving slowly in a line eventually stopping outside the Jail . |
| 20 | Then there 's the question of whether an extra club comes up from the Vauxhall Conference to replace Aldershot and the possibility of clubs moving to new grounds . ’ |
| 21 | The light comes in from the sun , heat . |
| 22 | And the star of the show … the Russian Bear comes in from the cold . |
| 23 | The bottle was in his hand when Nicandra came back from the kitchen . |
| 24 | Wednesday morning , 16 April 1746 , rained , it was chilly , and the citizens of Inverness came out from the town to view this spectator sport . |
| 25 | He was dialling when Miles and Frances came in from the kitchen . |
| 26 | It was eight o'clock the following morning when Ben came back from the town . |
| 27 | A little money came in from The Character of Completeness , and he took Dinah out for supper in an hotel one Sunday , when she was not working . |
| 28 | Mum came in from the shops and gave us the news that , starting from September , we are to have 2 morning services . |
| 29 | Brother Denis came out from the guesthall , Brother Paul from the schoolroom , with two of his boys peering out from behind his skirts , two novices and two grooms from the stable-yard , and half a dozen brothers from various scattered occupations , all appeared on the scene almost before the porter was out of his lodge in haste to greet Prior Robert , the sheriff and the guests . |
| 30 | Elise Fox was a woman who prided herself on her ability to deal with crisis , but at eleven o'clock that Saturday night she still lay limp on the sofa in the flat , looking utterly shattered when her young sister came in from the kitchen with yet another pot of strong black coffee . |