Example sentences of "it come from a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The previous owner tells me he thinks it came from a 1976 vehicle but the distributor and starter motor are dated 1972 , 1971 . |
| 2 | I was about to return fire but saw it came from a Croatian position . ’ |
| 3 | She sucked again from the tea-bulb , feeling its plastic smoothness dent as it emptied , knowing it came from a floating colony like she did but not knowing why it should be used on a steady-gravity planet like Mars . |
| 4 | No school-children so far , but I can hear the first faint scrapes and slushing of householders beginning to clean their pavements , and the sound is strange and hard to recognise in the almost silent air , seeming as if it came from a long distance , a country sound in the wrong place . |
| 5 | It is an area I do not know and the reason for choosing it came from a close friend who has put up with the knowledge of my obsession for many years now and still remains the closest of friends . |
| 6 | But it came from a reliable source . |
| 7 | And an achene is a small , single-seeded fruit that does not open , which you might mistake for a nut unless you know that it came from a single carpel . ) |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It came from a wooden hut at the edge of a field . |
| 10 | Fundamentalism is a belief system that can not be refuted because it comes from a supreme being . |
| 11 | Here is another and it is an interesting and rewarding exercise to translate this into language with plain meaning It comes from a Japanese journal , clearly influenced by trans-Pacific pomposity . |
| 12 | It comes from a malicious poem about the Vicar or.the Parish " whose constant care was no man to offend " . |
| 13 | It comes from a third-party source DG declines to identify and is already used in high-end sites . |
| 14 | This list 's provenance should be carefully noted , since it comes from a retail bookseller , and is therefore intended primarily to sell books . |