Example sentences of "[pers pn] come from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came from the very opposite . |
| 2 | You see , I come from the criminal classes . |
| 3 | Yes , dripping with power I come from the hidden kingdom |
| 4 | All I needed was 10 pence — which was what you had to pay in those days if you said you came from the previous stop — but I did n't even have that . |
| 5 | They came from the armed forces , from war work , from factory , farm , workshop and office . |
| 6 | As for the clothes , money and jewellery sported by many locals , they came from the gruesome supply of drowned bodies that were washed ashore each morning on the high tide . |
| 7 | Encouraged by the pride of the town authorities , the Guy Fawkes celebrations provided an annual explosion for the town 's poor : deprived as they had been of saints ' days with the advent of Puritanism , they came from the miserable hovels cramped in the town 's back alleys to protest not only against the symbols of oppression but also , in bad years , against the local oligarchy . |
| 8 | They came from the big houses down the loch or over the pass towards Loch Lomond , or the castle at Inverary , from miles and miles , little girls in furred and caped coats and dresses gathered into heavy bows behind the cascades of ringlets . |
| 9 | Although there is no precise information about the provenance of all of these finds , it is reasonable to assume that they came from the original excavation of the ‘ villa ’ or from adjacent sites . |
| 10 | They come from the other way |
| 11 | We need to be able to take deliveries at all times of the day and it is very difficult to dictate to carriers , especially when they come from the other end of the country , what time they can deliver . |
| 12 | Well they come from the right area , do n't they ? |
| 13 | The curriculum is designed by teachers who unconsciously reflect the view that city life is best , even if they come from the rural areas . |
| 14 | They come from the upper classes and are socially acceptable . |
| 15 | FROM the birth of radio astronomy in 1932 , when Jansky discovered cosmic radio waves and established that they come from the Galactic Centre , it has been clear that something very remarkable is taking place at the core of the Milky Way . |
| 16 | ‘ As you say , when these instructions arrive , you 'll find that they come from the very top . |
| 17 | We accept figures for newspaper circulations because they come from the independent Audit Bureau of Circulation . |
| 18 | Yes , they come from the local schools and erm The Watch , the children of what they call The Watch erm part of the Sussex Trust come along , and erm oh , they just pop in and very often they , at the end of term they come with tadpoles and things that they Oh , I , I have n't mentioned the frogs and toads , we 've plenty of those . |
| 19 | He came from the far north and at the Highland games he used to array himself in kilt and sporran and throw cabers around like matchsticks . |
| 20 | Leonard Cheshire and I were pilot officers together in No 4 Group at the beginning of the war ; he came from the dreaming spires of Oxford and I had just been commissioned as a pilot officer after serving a stint of five years as a sergeant pilot . |
| 21 | Clever , witty and articulate , he came from the intellectual elite which McCarthy so effectively attacked as responsible for many of America 's problems . |
| 22 | It came from the far side of the hotel ; I walked along the balcony to the far end . |
| 23 | It came from the following advisers : trade union , medical , employer , police , potential defendant , AA/RAC , the advisee 's own insurance company , workmate or fellow patient , friend , relative . |
| 24 | Howard Barker is described in the programme as a playwright ‘ known for his robust stance ’ — feet apart , biceps raised ? — ‘ against the tide of TV obsessed populist drama , ’ but the dialogue in A Hard Heart sounds as if it came from the violet-ink-filled pen of Oscar Wilde . |
| 25 | It came from the top floor . |
| 26 | It came from the slashed body . |
| 27 | But how could he come from the opposite direction ? |
| 28 | It is called Kulta and it comes from the distant reaches of Lapland . |
| 29 | During the pressing operation , the first juice to emerge from a grape is called the cuvée and it comes from the central zone of pulp . |
| 30 | I think it comes from the treated paper the barons use . |