Example sentences of "have come [adv] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , black has come up from the streets and into the drawing room ; overleaf , neutral tones assert themselves . |
| 2 | Once a call has come through from the police the team initiates a ‘ cascade call ’ system where say , one person is responsible for telephoning six other team members . |
| 3 | Margery 's conversation with her husband when she has come home from the Exhibition |
| 4 | Apart from the Head Chef , who is 53 , opposition has come mainly from the Accommodation Manager , who is unqualified but very experienced : he believes that the old ways are the best ways and has generally received the support of his department heads , who owe their positions to him . |
| 5 | It seems an odd time to be holding a political meeting , and Neil may have to come straight from the Palace , but the organisers say that all the participants have pledged to attend . |
| 6 | The doctor said the driver should have come round from the anaesthetic by now . ’ |
| 7 | Some may even have come up from the West Highland Way which runs below Am Bodach in a secluded glen parallel to Loch Leven . |
| 8 | Before them was a landscape that could have come straight from the brush of Giotto . |
| 9 | She was thinking that the girl might have lacked an umbilicus ; might have come straight from the hand of God , who having finished making the mountains had picked a bit of clay from under his thumbnail and fashioned just one more sort of person , perhaps as an experiment . |
| 10 | Otherwise whoever it was would probably have come in from the corridor . |
| 11 | In the sixth century they were said to have come originally from the island of Scandza , to have migrated to the Black Sea , and thence to have come into contact with the Roman Empire . |
| 12 | I 've come straight from the calving and I did n't even get a cup of tea when I 'd finished . |
| 13 | I 've come straight from the hospital , and now I 'm on my way to St Mary 's , where I 'm due at five . |
| 14 | That 's why I 've come over from the States , ’ Howard said . |
| 15 | Now on Green , now we go , we 've come along from the top of Street right along Road , the toy shop then you get to the Kings Arms and on the other side of the road there was another pub and I ca n't remember the name of it , then there was the fish shop and then the Liberal Club then the pork butchers you 'd think they were all full of meat . |
| 16 | The problem pupils who 've come back from the brink . |
| 17 | Sometimes when I 've come home from the pictures and I let myself in , it 's so quiet I 'd nearly talk to the statues for company . ’ |
| 18 | Urquhart had come straight from the office and was still wearing a grey suit with a red tie . |
| 19 | While we had been on the opposite bank a new barge had come upriver from the direction of Minya and had moored near the end of the Corniche . |
| 20 | She had come over from the east with her Arab mother , who , once in Britain , had married a stranger in order to stay — rather like buying a spare part to save one 's life . |
| 21 | Plaster had come away from the walls from ceiling to floor , and along the lower part the bared cement , originally grey , was stained yellow and smelt of urine . |
| 22 | Mr Widmer praised the minister for his ‘ sympathetic attitude ’ and said the company had come away from the meeting re-assured that it would not be forced to move . |
| 23 | He had come up from the bottom and made it to the top : no one was to forget that he was at the top and everyone was supposed to forget where he had come from and how he had got where he was . |
| 24 | They were by now in Piccadilly Circus , which was as bright as day , and were surrounded by the crowds streaming from the theatres , cafés and dives which populated the area , painted ladies of a certain character being prominent among them — as well as the enthusiastic amateurs who had come up from the East End to make a few pennies , or even be given supper , as a price for their favours . |
| 25 | Last month PHILIP VANN looked at artists who had come up from the mines to become artists ; in this issue he concentrates on those artists who went down to the pit to paint |
| 26 | Louis had come up from the saloon . |
| 27 | It was low and cracked to begin with , then it rose up the scale , eerily , and shook out its top notes across the damp , half-lit glade until I really did think that my father had come not from the hospital but from some horribly , cold , empty region that lies in wait for us instead of all the heavens we have dreamed up to make things bearable . |
| 28 | Just as Jesus had come forth from the Father into the world as the Father 's gift to mankind , so it is with the Paraclete ( 5:43,16:28 , 3:16f ) . |
| 29 | He came from Wilton ( Wilts. ) , although the family 's residence there was itself the result of a career move by an earlier professional administrator ; they had come originally from the north west . |
| 30 | He came from Wilton ( Wilts. ) , although the family 's residence there was itself the result of a career move by an earlier professional administrator ; they had come originally from the north west . |