Example sentences of "[noun] come from [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had the plea come from a budding starlet or perhaps an Italian supermodel , Jagger would have tripped over his lips in an effort to scrawl his name — and perhaps his phone number — in her book for posterity . |
| 2 | The remainder come from the following categories : |
| 3 | But aid came from an unlikely quarter . |
| 4 | Thus Barbarossa came from a noble family , with a background that suited him to his eventual imperial career . |
| 5 | Books came from the central library in Salisbury by the train load . |
| 6 | The softly spoken command came from the third man , who had remained silent until now . |
| 7 | But anthropologists proved his theory was wrong ; the islanders came from the western Pacific . |
| 8 | Part of the confusion came from the unworthy pleasure given him by the prospect of holding onto his ward a little longer . |
| 9 | Left : This ornate boudoir couch came from a stately home |
| 10 | The biggest Nazi vote came from the rural districts , and the lowest came from urban areas , where the SPD , KPD and DNVP were still firmly based . |
| 11 | Speech data came from a previous ESRC funded project ( Language use in British Black Community ) . |
| 12 | The doors stayed open but no murmur came from the other room . |
| 13 | The upkeep of such a house would require a substantial income , she thought to herself ; she remembered that Veronica came from a wealthy family . |
| 14 | This time the interruption came from an unexpected source , as Lesley-Jane Decker leapt to the defence of her idol . |
| 15 | Support for the reform programme came from a loose coalition of liberal and independent deputies which , in the past , had been highly critical of British policy towards Hong Kong . |
| 16 | Many of the speakers came from a local government background , having spent years in social services or as councillors . |
| 17 | The rugs came from the antique department at Liberty in London . ’ |
| 18 | It was quite an exciting and exacting task to work out the meaning of basic Christian terms , for in Burmese almost all the abstract nouns and religious words came from the religious language of Buddhism . |
| 19 | St. Clement Danes was an old-fashioned school which would have liked to have been more middle class than it was Unfortunately most of the kids came from the White City Estate which is about as working class as you can get |
| 20 | Shampoo came from a communal bottle . |
| 21 | The light came from a long mirror surrounded by unshaded bulbs . |
| 22 | Dark because it had once been the attic of the house and its only natural light came from a tiny oblong of glass set in the sloping roof . |
| 23 | The study was empty ; the light came from the adjacent room . |
| 24 | Apart from the lamps that gave a yellow glow to the leaves , the only light came from the big windows of the Communist club which was packed on both floors , its discotheque going full swing . |
| 25 | The only light came from the big fire . |
| 26 | All the doors off it had been closed , and the only light came from the open archways at its beginning and end . |
| 27 | Man 's early faith in the original ‘ god ’ forerunners came from the apparent success which on some occasions appeared to attend the involvement of them in the troubles that beset him . |
| 28 | Barratt came from an old mining family and indeed , had been captain at Wheal Friendship , on Dartmoor , where his father , for years , had been manager . |
| 29 | The impetus for this study came from the disastrous upsurge in the levels of these diseases , particularly gonorrhoea , which was increasing at 10 to 15 per cent . |
| 30 | But neither of them saw Captain Meredith coming from the opposite direction on his way to visit Lawyer Loveitt , and he failed to see them as he crossed into Frog Lane seconds after they had left it . |