Example sentences of "come [adv prt] from the [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last month PHILIP VANN looked at artists who had come up from the mines to become artists ; in this issue he concentrates on those artists who went down to the pit to paint |
| 2 | In 565 he came down from the islands to try and convert a Pictish king . |
| 3 | Ramapithecus was one of several primates , such as the baboons , which came down from the trees to develop terrestrial living . |
| 4 | At midday , Chola , Mina and Kāli came back from the fields to prepare the food for the evening . |
| 5 | It was noon before they had completed the morning 's tasks , and as they came out from the buildings to go across to the house , the snow had ceased to fall . |
| 6 | Corbett bowed respectfully and , pushing by the labourers and other villeins coming in from the fields to break their fasts , went out of the Galilee Gate , across the track and into the woods . |
| 7 | If an inner-city supplies free art galleries , financed out of taxes on inner-city inhabitants , the rich still come in from the suburbs to make use of these facilities . |
| 8 | Even the railway has charm as it curves on a fine viaduct where the River Finnan comes down from the mountains to enter Loch Shiel , a long and narrow sheet of water passing through high portals to reach green pastures after a serpentine course of seventeen miles . |