Example sentences of "come [adv prt] from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Sorry , the ghost has n't come over from the other side of the door , it just keeps moving by itself . |
| 4 | ‘ They seemed convinced a whole lot of people had come up from the big city to show off , to be grandees , which was far from the truth . |
| 5 | An Oxford aid worker who 's just come back from the Croatian capital Zagreb , says the situation there is getting out of hand . |
| 6 | She might have sat all afternoon , nibbling and stuporous , exhausted but not sleepy ; but the glazier finally came down from the upper floor , cheerfully announcing that all was now right and tight and he would be on his way . |
| 7 | My talk with Quintin had more content since he said that if another peer came down from the Upper House he would withdraw from public life whether he was in the Upper or Lower House . |
| 8 | The ceremony was in the hands of Mr Alexander Dubcek , who came in from the political cold less than 24 hours before , to be elected head of the new-style Federal Assembly . |
| 9 | Grants came in from the Welsh Office , Welsh Tourist Board and the local authorities allowing the newly formed Brecon Mountain Railway Company to take on permanent staff for line construction and a stone-faced workshop ( in keeping with other buildings in the National Park ) built at Pontsticill . |
| 10 | A bright red Porsche came in from the wrong end , ignoring the arrows and signs . |
| 11 | It was Thursday 5 September and he was about to leave his office to drive to Bramshill Police College to begin a series of lectures to the Senior Command Course when the call came through from the private office . |
| 12 | Fearing a tragedy of epic proportions — her mind leapt at once to Penini and then to Miss Arabel — she knocked on the open door and Mr Browning came through from the other room , so haggard and drawn in contrast to his morning self that once more she was convinced something dreadful had happened . |
| 13 | Then , two minutes before the end of the game , the news came through from the other ground that Sunderland had lost . |
| 14 | The County Council took into account a wide range of considerations , in including the the information that came through from the local plan authorities , in the preparation of their local plans over the past ten years or more . |
| 15 | When they went into their bedroom at night , cold air came up from the polished linoleum like air off an ice rink . |
| 16 | Boxer came out from the nearby farmhouse carrying a bag of oats and waved . |
| 17 | Creggan was watching the group of people coming along from the other direction and making a lot of noise . |
| 18 | The Macaber , the hooded , skeletal apparition , coming down from the Black Tower to dance amongst the plague-ridden townships of the Middle Ages , leading them in the dread danse macabre , forcing them to dance with him until they dropped … |
| 19 | We passed like wraiths gripping our anoraks against a colder night wind coming down from the deep indigo silhouetted mountains . |
| 20 | He knew that Garvey 's eyes could see nothing , coming in from the relative lightness outdoors . |
| 21 | A restructuring is under way — John McIntyre , vice-president of European Operations has gone , and Europe is now being split into two : the UK , where Engels has recently been appointed managing director , and the continent , where Terry Hall is coming in from the Australian operation to take charge . |
| 22 | These are believed to result , at least in part , from sewage pollution , although there is some evidence that nutrients are also coming in from the open sea . |
| 23 | There was one obvious difference : she was coming through from the Other Side . |
| 24 | You may be lucky enough to hear the sound , coming up from the very earth beneath your feet . |
| 25 | We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ? |
| 26 | Pearn and the members of his staff had started a monthly publication called Burma Today , giving news brought out by men who had gone in with Wingate , photographs taken by army photographers or by RAF planes on patrol , and first-hand accounts by people smuggled out of occupied Burma or coming out from the growing number of liberated areas . |
| 27 | Well no it does n't , if there 's nothing , if there 's nothing coming round from the other way it does n't go . |
| 28 | come down from the actual job |
| 29 | Fish come up from the deep sea in the early morning and the early evening . |
| 30 | Bond 's technical wizard Q ( Desmond Llewellyn ) and new assistant Eve Barker , from BBC 's Born Kicking , realise the security implications and come out from the shadowy world of espionage to help publicise them . |