Example sentences of "[noun pl] come [adv prt] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The lads came up from the gill with buckets of water and stood a-row along the brink . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And then they had the adits coming down from the top . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Clapping their wings the gulls came back from the sea , |
| 9 | The mine captains came up from the ranks , having been tributers and tutworkers themselves . |
| 10 | And it 'll be a cool afternoon , temperatures around nine degrees celsius , that 's forty eight fahrenheit , with light winds coming in from the east . |
| 11 | He watched Maggie bump the tall girl with her hip , then add , ‘ There 's a gang of parched Arabs coming in from the desert ; see to them . ’ |
| 12 | These primates came down from the trees and gradually learned to walk upright . |
| 13 | At first , I thought it was spilt wine but then it spread and I noticed little splashes coming down from the ceiling above . |
| 14 | Corbett bowed respectfully and , pushing by the labourers and other villeins coming in from the fields to break their fasts , went out of the Galilee Gate , across the track and into the woods . |
| 15 | Boats come over from the mainland about three times a day and in total we get about 9000 visitors a year , including 2000 schoolchildren . |
| 16 | Huge space-age lights came down from the ceiling to flash in time to the thudding pulse of the music . |
| 17 | Most of the owners came down from the Clubhouse to watch the saddling of the runners in the Jockey Club Race Train Stakes , and all the sportier of them wore the rosettes . |
| 18 | And in the middle of that , they thought that perhaps an ornamental lighting column with sort of , with lights coming out from the top of it just to make it a bit more fancy . |
| 19 | The erm the views coming back from the consultant were obviously er so follow occasions but not dramatically so . |
| 20 | Erm and we find in the office that we get lots of forms coming in from the Paymaster General asking us to confirm that mister X is employed you know on a on a part time basis . |
| 21 | It is possible to find the origin of the synapses ending on cells of the type Hubel and Wiesel recorded from , and it is an amazing fact that 80 per cent or more of their excitatory input comes from other cortical cells , and less than 20 per cent from the nerve fibres coming up from the eye . |
| 22 | But 20 years have at least seen her interests come in from the cold . |
| 23 | One of the top ANC men came back from the Dar Es Salaam talks and told us , ‘ I am more than ever convinced that violence is not the way . |
| 24 | One by one , the men came down from the top of the rock , and sat with their arms around each other , out of the wind . |
| 25 | The girls were less politically conscious than the boys , although the staff would notice a more defensive attitude when the pupils came back from the townships after the holidays . |
| 26 | Bats developed " send/receive " switching technology long long ago , probably millions of years before our ancestors came down from the trees . |
| 27 | Some are Oxbridge educated former merchant bankers , others came up from the shop floor , but they all have some things in common . |
| 28 | There was always complaints coming in from the people who lived in the area about the gangs making a noise on the corner . |
| 29 | I have an army of women coming in from the village to do all that . |
| 30 | The material , long hidden in KGB files or in the memories of intelligence operatives , is up for grabs as ageing ex-KGB agents come in from the cold to trade in their undercover pasts for over-the-counter assets . |