Example sentences of "come [adv] from the old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either a spark had come down from the old fellow 's hole up there or him with hobnail boots had trod on er black powder and set it off and his hole went out underneath his feet . |
| 2 | He came away from the Old Entrance , having collected those of the destroyer 's crew not taken off by ML 6 , and as Micky Wynn came up with his special MTB , Robert Ryder told him to fire the torpedoes at the outer lock gate in the Old Entrance . |
| 3 | This was when the need to live together came not from the older generation , but from the child 's own family . |
| 4 | In the 18 years 1798–1815 inclusive , for each million tons sold there were 0.62 explosions and approximately 11 deaths ; in 1817–1834 inclusive the cost was 0.68 explosions , a 10 per cent increase , but with the loss of only 8.7 lives : for 1839–1844 , this had fallen further to 6.5 lives , But the three periods are not easily comparable ; the new production came not from the old collieries described but from new and ever deeper ones to the south and east made accessible after 1815 by steam-and-gravity operated railways . |
| 5 | ‘ You know me ? ’ came sharply from the old lady . |