Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] come [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After entering I found it came from a little sister of those drowned Children , that was singing to a bundle of clouts , rudely put together to look like a Doll , which she held in her arms . |
| 2 | ‘ Not last night ; I heard him come in a long time after I went to bed . |
| 3 | I was about to return fire but saw it came from a Croatian position . ’ |
| 4 | Did you come from a musical family ? |
| 5 | ‘ They were afraid to put their heads out and when they did they came in a whole convoy , shooting at women and children . ’ |
| 6 | Finally , some 520 million year old teeth found in fossilised form have long been a controversial subject — did they come from an early vertebrate creature ? |
| 7 | ‘ Did it come as a great surprise to you ? ’ |
| 8 | Did it come as a sudden revelation and a flash of light to Brigadier Crawley , or was it that the development corporation , with its vast capital expenditure , needed a prestige project to give it credence in the eyes of the commercial world ? |
| 9 | Our Stella says the lad who butted him comes from a well-to-do family . ’ |
| 10 | Banging the table , he shouted ‘ order ’ , and continuing in English — to the amazement of members — he said he came from a noble family in Normandy and in Normandy , they were used to doing things in an orderly way . |
| 11 | They wanted it to come as a sudden surprise — jolt . |