Example sentences of "he came [adv prt] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he felt no pain , apart from injections which he has never been fond of , and when he came round from the operation the first thing he asked for was the Ipswich football scores and a drink . |
| 2 | Then at the appropriate moment , he unfurled a battered black umbrella , shielding his camera as he came down from the car . |
| 3 | He came down from the knoll and seemed to be searching for somebody . |
| 4 | He might have been listening to Moses when he came down from the mountain . |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't know what to do when he came back from the zone . |
| 6 | He came back from the loo and I had to stop myself telling him what I 'd found out and that it did n't seem silly or neurotic or hopeless or anything , but just very thoughtful and touching . |
| 7 | Elliott Gabellah , vice president of the Rhodesian ANC , met us the day after he came back from the independence celebrations . |
| 8 | Joe found her there when he came back from the vegetable field . |
| 9 | But , always kind : " Well , Robert , dear fellow , " she crooned when he came back from the bar ( where he had bought a third bottle of champagne ) . |
| 10 | He is 33 , he appears unstoppable , and he is perfectly aware that he came back from the grave . |
| 11 | He came back from the doorway and sat down . |
| 12 | She had made him his favourite bottom pie and onions for supper that evening when he came in from the fishing , and he had gone back down to Mother Russell 's after , for a few ales . |
| 13 | No need for secrets , so Mrs Files telephoned her daughter straight away , then told Frank Grimwood who came by with four brace of partridge from yesterday 's let shoot ; who stopped Alec on the tractor with a load of silage behind ; who met Tom in the grainstore ; who found Mary in the estate office when he went in to fill out his time sheet ; who confided in the postman when he came with the afternoon mail ; who amazed Mrs May in Forester 's Cottage when he delivered her Freeman 's Catalogue and a postcard from her son holidaying in Pouket ; who stunned her husband when he came in from the saw mill . |
| 14 | He came in from the scullery with the coal bucket in one hand and in the other a fat metal cylinder . |