Example sentences of "had come [adv] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Urquhart had come straight from the office and was still wearing a grey suit with a red tie . |
| 2 | While we had been on the opposite bank a new barge had come upriver from the direction of Minya and had moored near the end of the Corniche . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mr Widmer praised the minister for his ‘ sympathetic attitude ’ and said the company had come away from the meeting re-assured that it would not be forced to move . |
| 5 | He had come up from the bottom and made it to the top : no one was to forget that he was at the top and everyone was supposed to forget where he had come from and how he had got where he was . |
| 6 | Louis had come up from the saloon . |
| 7 | It was low and cracked to begin with , then it rose up the scale , eerily , and shook out its top notes across the damp , half-lit glade until I really did think that my father had come not from the hospital but from some horribly , cold , empty region that lies in wait for us instead of all the heavens we have dreamed up to make things bearable . |
| 8 | Just as Jesus had come forth from the Father into the world as the Father 's gift to mankind , so it is with the Paraclete ( 5:43,16:28 , 3:16f ) . |
| 9 | He came from Wilton ( Wilts. ) , although the family 's residence there was itself the result of a career move by an earlier professional administrator ; they had come originally from the north west . |
| 10 | He came from Wilton ( Wilts. ) , although the family 's residence there was itself the result of a career move by an earlier professional administrator ; they had come originally from the north west . |
| 11 | Ray had come in from the country bank and we sat with Margaret through the short service . |
| 12 | It was a relief when Stephen Copley , the Senior Chemist , arrived just before ten , bustling in as usual , his rubicund face with its tonsure and fringe of black curly hair glistening as if he had come in from the sun . |
| 13 | So get in the old shed and then we got a load of swedes , we put it in rack and we come out like chips , chips of raw swede , and then sugar beet pulp , which had come back from the factory . |
| 14 | Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty . |
| 15 | On Friday night , Tina phoned just after Jack had come back from the supermarket with the weekend shopping . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Not surprisingly , the stars of the night series final were the player who had come back from the World Cup . |
| 18 | The moon , I thought briefly , had come down from the sky and was dancing about in the wood not far ahead . |
| 19 | Apart from her father and her brother Niall who had come down from the watchtower , she was the tallest person present , and her fine clothes lent her a new self-confidence . |
| 20 | It is perfectly clear that long before the procession came into sight , long before the procession had formed , these people in the Markets in their desire to be offended had come down from the side streets and had taken great trouble to he offended , and not only were prepared to be offended but were prepared to throw missiles , stones and other weapons … |
| 21 | For Philip said that board , thick papers , " something , should be put under the tank to raise it , because of some tricky protruding pipes , and Jasper , seeing the stacks of newspaper that had come down from the attic , swiftly gathered them up and built them , while he knelt there beside it , into an eighteen-inch-high platform . |
| 22 | Than the shops gave place to boarding houses and the hill began ; it was a twin of the one he had come down from the car park . |
| 23 | I could not present them , at fifty-five and sixty , with the same situation they had had to face twenty years earlier when my mother had come home from the teacher 's training college where she was a lecturer in medieval history , given birth to me , and died of it . |