Example sentences of "come from the north " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ These unfortunate people have come from the north , and they do not know the road as we do . ’ |
| 2 | The Black Prince was to march from Bordeaux into the north-central areas of the country ; Henry , duke of Lancaster , planned to attack from Normandy ; while Edward III himself was also to come from the north . |
| 3 | I know he 's got his reputation as a good teacher to keep up , but that does n't matter to me , I 'm different , I 'm not like this soft lot down here , my folks came from the North , descended from the Vikings , and I do n't want to be liked , I do n't want to be good , I do n't want to be in the football team , or a useful member of anything , I do n't want to know . |
| 4 | In Palace 's early days , and at least until the end of the 1920s , almost all the playing staff came from the North of England or the Midlands but Bateman was a popular and welcome exception . |
| 5 | But the wind came from the north , so the Forfarshire , without her engines , began to go south again , back to England . |
| 6 | ‘ We came from the North , ’ said Mrs Molesworth , making herself sound like a Viking horde . |
| 7 | The main threat now came from the north and west : from the Picts and their allies the Irish , with whom Aldfrith [ q.v . ] , |
| 8 | Azmaveth came from the north and spoke with a strange accent . |
| 9 | The stimulus for the reopening of dialogue ( broken off by North Korea in early 1990 in protest over the annual joint South Korean-United States " Team Spirit " military exercise ) came from the North in late June , following improving relations between South Korea and the Soviet Union [ see p. 37533 ] . |
| 10 | With me coming from the North of England , everybody is pretty reserved up there at the best of times , so coming down to London and meeting Angie with an American accent and flitting around the room and speaking in a loud voice all the time , it was amazing . |
| 11 | Coming from the north , er the appearance of the village is rather different I think because it is masked to an extent by the existing vegetation . |
| 12 | The wind is coming from the north now , and it 's stronger . |
| 13 | A reconstruction of the supposed scenery of this time is given in plate 4.4 ( it will be noted that the view is looking west-wards and that the shadows are therefore coming from the north , evidently proving that the British Isles were then in the southern hemisphere ) . |
| 14 | wind is coming from the North here . |
| 15 | By 1815 trade with them had increased more than six-fold , with over a third of imports coming from the North and Central American colonies . |
| 16 | You knew the great winter was coming from the north . |
| 17 | There was a slight wind coming from the north , and I turned into it . |
| 18 | Coming from the north ? |
| 19 | It 's coming from the north yes . |
| 20 | Coming from the north yes . |