Example sentences of "come [adv prt] from the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him . |
| 2 | I I 've got a bill to come in from the electrician for his call-out charge he diagnosed that it 's was not an electrical fault and then thought it was an electrical fault by the noise , it was making a fizzing noise but he does n't th he said it 's , it 's the pump the pump is on the way out it needs replacing house is built in nineteen eighty five ! |
| 3 | Her spirits had come down from the heights to the abyss . |
| 4 | Now on Green , now we go , we 've come along from the top of Street right along Road , the toy shop then you get to the Kings Arms and on the other side of the road there was another pub and I ca n't remember the name of it , then there was the fish shop and then the Liberal Club then the pork butchers you 'd think they were all full of meat . |
| 5 | She had come over from the east with her Arab mother , who , once in Britain , had married a stranger in order to stay — rather like buying a spare part to save one 's life . |
| 6 | I mean , I know that a lot of the calls they get are practical , people have come back from the Gulf with no money , no home , I mean they 've lived there for years and years and years , without the family network sometimes to keep them going , or friends , friends , they 've , they 've lost all of their , and it 's , it 's not easy . |
| 7 | On Friday night , Tina phoned just after Jack had come back from the supermarket with the weekend shopping . |
| 8 | he had come back from the meeting with Patrick , and he had opened a bottle of whisky … automatically his had reached for it , found it between his legs , and he was raising it to his lips when the hurried knocking shook the door again . |
| 9 | Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty . |
| 10 | The doctor said the driver should have come round from the anaesthetic by now . ’ |
| 11 | Winkles down at Finn Mill there used to be sm well thousands , millions of them , winkles and the ships used to come round from the Blackwater from Colchester area , come round , stay round the Finn Mill about a fortnight and they used to have what they call a well in their boat and they used to have fill up little sacks like a sand bag of winkles and take them round there and cultivate them . |
| 12 | One by one , the men came down from the top of the rock , and sat with their arms around each other , out of the wind . |
| 13 | The barges used to come down the Leeds and Liverpool canal right down to Tate and Lyle 's , where they had chutes that came down from the building into the barges and the coal was sucked up because the coal was very fine ; and the poor people there — they 'd be on the other side of the canal and one would perhaps get on a barge and throw two or three pieces of coal and then scamper up . |
| 14 | At Teheran airport they came down from the plane with Koreans in their hands . |
| 15 | It was as if Moses came down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments to find Christ and the disciples standing in the crowd . |
| 16 | George MacDonald saw the people from Strathnaver arriving at the sea : ‘ When they came down from the Strath to the sea-shore they suffered very much from want of houses . |
| 17 | In her plain blue suit she came down from the Clubhouse with two of the owners who seemed to want to be near the horses at ground level . |
| 18 | Elise Fox was a woman who prided herself on her ability to deal with crisis , but at eleven o'clock that Saturday night she still lay limp on the sofa in the flat , looking utterly shattered when her young sister came in from the kitchen with yet another pot of strong black coffee . |
| 19 | Although , long before Johnson , Daniel Defoe found Elgin ‘ a very agreeable place to live in ’ — those gentry not wishing to venture as far as Edinburgh or London came in from the Highlands for the winter — Elgin 's time came later : a half-century after our heroes ' visit , it became a little classical Victorian market town whose streets and suburbs echoed Edinburgh 's New Town in elegance and spaciousness . |
| 20 | When Moran came in from the field with Michael he was in high good humour . |
| 21 | A little money came in from The Character of Completeness , and he took Dinah out for supper in an hotel one Sunday , when she was not working . |
| 22 | He came in from the scullery with the coal bucket in one hand and in the other a fat metal cylinder . |
| 23 | The captain came in from the wing of the bridge with a hint of a smile on his usually rather stern face . |
| 24 | But i it grew slowly over the weeks and I think Christmas was an example of just the actual logistics of what we did at Christmas must be something of a feat in that so much stuff came in from the volume of presents and then the way in which they could be distributed . |
| 25 | The maid came through from the back of the house and bobbed a curtsy to Emily . |
| 26 | Rachel had imagined that the accident would put paid to Family Day and that the other activities , including the firework display , would be cancelled , but within the hour a message came through from the hospital from Sir Anthony to say that , because miraculously there had been no fatalities , with even the pilot surviving his injuries , it was his express wish that the Family Day celebration should continue . |
| 27 | The purely Chinese came over from the mainland with Chiang Kai-Shek . ’ |
| 28 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 29 | Then , for five minutes at least , he was still again , and then , when he knew he was talking with God , his arm went around my shoulder and there came up from the depth of his heart such petitions for men as I had never heard be-fore . |
| 30 | The lads came up from the gill with buckets of water and stood a-row along the brink . |