Example sentences of "come [adv] from a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He needed to come down from a greater height than most . |
| 2 | It was after her mother had come home from a solitary trip to Rome . |
| 3 | The rise in the popularity of herbs as medicinal remedies is less obvious but it seems to have come partly from a general dissatisfaction with synthesized drugs , as well as plastics , artificials and chemicals — " manufactured " articles of all kinds , which are being rejected in favour of substances naturally grown and formed by hand into the artifact required . |
| 4 | Witney Town turned in an excellent performance to come back from a two goal deficit to snatch a point against mid-table Yate . |
| 5 | Most of the groceries came down from a grand shop in London but she 'd order perishable goods from her brother and then send a servant to complain of the quality . |
| 6 | When the clock struck , the preacher came down from a little room behind the platform , followed by ten or a dozen men who looked like prosperous City merchants . |
| 7 | He landed and stared down at me and at the blood of my broken wing , his terrible beak opening just a little with the pleasure of what he saw ; while I hung there , trying to watch all three at once and knowing that one of them would attack suddenly and then be gone as another came in from a different direction . |
| 8 | Equally , hostility towards peasants who had left the commune came not from a proletarianized peasantry presaging a movement beyond capitalism to socialized large-scale farming , but from ‘ traditional ’ households who desired a redistribution of the land amassed by their more successful neighbours . |
| 9 | His eldest son came home from a great war in another land … ’ |
| 10 | The impetus came partly from a growing interest in Schopenhauer 's theory of music , and partly from an uncomfortable sense that his own artistic practice was diverging further and further from the theoretical postulates of which it was supposed to be the realization . |
| 11 | It was at Shoom that Danny first met Steve Eusebe , the tall , dreadlocked singer who fronts the single , a mellow house groove with deep , soulful vocals that you would swear came straight from a gospel-trained Chicago house singer if you had n't already caught the London inflections . |
| 12 | One day , their father Mr Earnshaw came back from a long journey . |
| 13 | It is only two weeks since Gough came back from a multiple fracture of the cheekbone . |
| 14 | It is only two weeks since Gough came back from a multiple fracture of the cheekbone . |
| 15 | So this was how a submarine came back from a successful patrol ! |
| 16 | Battling Boro came back from a 1–0 half-time deficit to take the semi-final into extra time through a fine goal by Bernie Slaven . |
| 17 | He came back from a serious back injury last season , but was injured again at the weekend . |
| 18 | In midweek , Northern Rail ( Mick O'Brien , Jimmy Knowles , Tommy Garner ) came back from a 20 deficit to win 3-2 against Hornby Road Sports , who suffered their first setback of the season . |
| 19 | An answer came unexpectedly from a middle-aged man leaning on the rail nearby . |
| 20 | When he reached the top , he stopped on the landing for a moment to allow his eyes to adjust ; there was illumination of a kind , coming down from a grimy skylight set into the angled ceiling , and it showed nothing much more than three old-fashioned doors and a bare wooden floor . |
| 21 | The library , which had not been in use since Sir John Merchiston 's death some seven years earlier , was a very pleasant room , positioned opposite the ballroom , between Araminta 's parlour and the big saloon , with panelled walls , quantities of shelving , an ivory inlay desk , leather chairs before the fireplace , and a good deal of light , even on this overcast day , coming in from a glazed door leading out into a pretty walled garden . |
| 22 | The Suffolk traffic cops were well-known to be a lot keener than their Essex brethren and a van like this one coming away from a military establishment was a natural target at that time in the morning . |
| 23 | He and his son were coming home from a long day 's fishing . |
| 24 | ‘ He just wanted to play cricket , ’ said Stanworth , ‘ and did n't mind coming straight from a full house at Leicester to a second team game at Southport . |
| 25 | The first was coming back from a fruitless wait for Gríshnakh the orc , dead and burnt that same day , with the smoke from his burning ‘ seen by many watchful eyes ’ . |
| 26 | In a marathon match Harlow defeated his Ely club colleague Kevin King by 9–8 , 7–9 , 9–8 , coming back from a 8–6 deficit to engineer a last-end three . |
| 27 | McKenzie looked as if he might have done enough to retain his crown after coming back from a ninth-round crisis in which he was floored by a two-punch combination to the body . |
| 28 | Firstly , it was the result of a reduced number of pigs coming forward from a smaller sow herd and secondly , there was a drop in demand for beef resulting from the media coverage of the BSE scare . |
| 29 | Two streams come down from a hilly hinterland and after a sedate infancy suddenly leap in a happy frolic through verdant surroundings to reach the village where they converge as the River Greta . |
| 30 | It seems that every time I come back from a big disappointment I win . ’ |