Example sentences of "[pers pn] come [adv prt] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 2 | When I came round from the chloroform I was in bed . |
| 3 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 4 | On Saturday 4 June , I came in from a morning 's canvassing in Sutton Coldfield to find an urgent message to call Conservative Central Office . |
| 5 | Then , in the afternoon , I came in from the garden and found her in an armchair , engrossed in a thick , glossy-looking book . |
| 6 | I came back from a business trip to find her gone . ’ |
| 7 | Yes , if we skip all the intermediate years with , after the war I came back from the army to find we 'd been bombed out and were living in requisition accommodation , after a time , the , we were moved into a new flat over some shops . |
| 8 | When I came back from the bathroom , I looked at my watch . |
| 9 | Oh yes well I mean , I , I , I came back from the war |
| 10 | ‘ When I came back from the war , we still had rationing for a few years . |
| 11 | I felt further away from him than I had ever felt , even when I came back from the hospital . |
| 12 | I came back from the Oval to find that Buffy had blown his brains out because his father had refused to pay his gambling debts . |
| 13 | ‘ Could we meet downstairs later , after I come back from the course ? ’ |
| 14 | I tell you what I 'll speak to you when I come back from the chippie yeah |
| 15 | ‘ It 's not very often that I come down from the pulpit but I feel this would be a genuinely worthwhile exercise , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
| 17 | A good many boys and girls had joined the crowd now and shouts of laughter broke out as a few of them came out from the gate in the kitchen-garden wall , their hands full of ripe peaches , their chins dripping with juice . |
| 18 | At Christmas they always played ‘ You came down from the stars ’ and at Easter they usually played a Pastorale , and what with the roar of the traffic and the crowds of chattering shoppers or tourists it was practically impossible to distinguish the tune except in short bursts . |
| 19 | Did erm did you notice any great differences when you came back from the war ? |
| 20 | What erm what kind of employment did you find when you came back from the war ? |
| 21 | Nurse Jones was a busy woman and he valued the minutes he had with her over a cup of tea when she came down from the bedroom . |
| 22 | In her plain blue suit she came down from the Clubhouse with two of the owners who seemed to want to be near the horses at ground level . |
| 23 | When she came back from a date with the Prince she would be full of sympathy for him uttering phrases like ‘ they work him too hard ’ or ‘ it 's appalling the way they push him around . ’ |
| 24 | Then one time she came back from a job and had a trendy , short cut . |
| 25 | She came back from the telephone booth quickly , looking distracted . |
| 26 | ‘ When she came back from the doctor , she was crying in pain , ’ says Aszal Galiara . |
| 27 | I saw you coming back from the communion rails , with your eyes down and your hands folded , as if you were n't putrid inside , but I know . |
| 28 | ‘ Did you come back from the villa specially for me ? ’ |
| 29 | Only now has she come in from the cold with her eleventh book being published by Collins ( at £10.95 ) . |
| 30 | Otherwise when you come back from a month in Malaya or Singapore or wherever you 've been you know or Matlock |