Example sentences of "come from the other [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Scottish accent seemed to come from the other side of the crowd . |
| 2 | Suddenly the stillness was broken by a distressful wail that came from the other side of the square . |
| 3 | The farmers remember the lawless boom times a decade ago , when they grew as much coca as they could manage for the drug traffickers who came from the other side of the continent to their market town . |
| 4 | Even in the Lockerbie disaster , where a plane exploded in mid-air , and many bodies could only be pieced together in fragments , relatives came from the other side of the world searching for something , anything that gave a focus to their grief and over which they could weep . |
| 5 | She was still pondering on this mystery when a low whistle came from the other side of the ditch . |
| 6 | The only sounds came from the other end of the room where the woman was splitting the artichokes and tossing them with a splash into a big plastic bowl . |
| 7 | ( And yet I remember one morning — when confronted by a preliminary plate of very sour , very cold slices of orange I could not stop a few tears trickling miserably down my cheeks — a gruff voice coming from the other end of the table . |
| 8 | They 'd come from the other way from er Snade Lane not Broad Lane , they 'd come up from they 'd come farther round , round and come in th in round the back sort of thing and we we 'd got no headquarters any more . |
| 9 | If this is not a practical reality , then any effort to counter discrimination against older consumes must come from the other side of the fence ; from manufactures of user-friendly products , from retailers in the way they present goods for sale , and from those who are responsible for creating the environment in which shops trade . |
| 10 | We need to be able to take deliveries at all times of the day and it is very difficult to dictate to carriers , especially when they come from the other end of the country , what time they can deliver . |
| 11 | The damsel in question comes from the other side of the family — it 's Great-Grandma Rosenbloom , at age eighteen . ’ |