Example sentences of "come [adv] from a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Ed Morrison allowed John Jeffrey to come in from an offside position and ‘ collect ’ a passing movement between two Japanese players while Hayashi was tackled without the ball when a try seemed certain for Japan . |
2 | He needed to come down from a greater height than most . |
3 | It was after her mother had come home from a solitary trip to Rome . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | ‘ Dear Loretta , ’ she read , ‘ I 've just come back from an official trip to Italy , and I squeezed in a visit to a peace camp while I was there . |
6 | Witney Town turned in an excellent performance to come back from a two goal deficit to snatch a point against mid-table Yate . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Surprisingly , the opposition to ‘ William It Was Really Nothing ’ came not from an older generation ( who , obviously were n't even aware of the record ) but from the feminist movement long since supported and admired by Morrissey . |
12 | His eldest son came home from a great war in another land … ’ |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | There is no way , for example , that one could work out that the lens came originally from an overlying sheet of cells without following its development . |
16 | One day , their father Mr Earnshaw came back from a long journey . |
17 | It is only two weeks since Gough came back from a multiple fracture of the cheekbone . |
18 | It is only two weeks since Gough came back from a multiple fracture of the cheekbone . |
19 | So this was how a submarine came back from a successful patrol ! |
20 | 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 . |
21 | He came back from a serious back injury last season , but was injured again at the weekend . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Clamorous criticism of this category of capital murder came simultaneously from an opposing tendency . |
24 | An answer came unexpectedly from a middle-aged man leaning on the rail nearby . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | He and his son were coming home from a long day 's fishing . |
29 | ‘ 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 . |
30 | 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 ’ . |