Example sentences of "had come from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his public statements on the dispute Lal portrayed it both as a factional struggle , between himself and members of Janata Dal who had come from the Prime Minister 's Jan Morcha group , and as a conflict between urban politicians and a representative of rural India . |
| 2 | I did n't understand her questions was it the figures had come from the private sector I 'm not sure if she understood it herself either erm we 've talked in the social services planning cuts committee about a list of homes for refurbishment and Mr wanted a very long list er a list which would blight every home not on the list . |
| 3 | At first it had seemed he was only there to sit out the war with his French woman , but then the summons had come from the Dutch army and Isabella had known that her husband would follow Sharpe . |
| 4 | The passage of the Riot Act of 1715 , which made assembling for political ( as well as other ) purposes potentially a capital offence , reveals how far the Whigs had come from the early days when they had actively promoted political demonstrations and deliberately sought an alliance with " the crowd " . |
| 5 | The exercise led to a bizarre episode in 1967 , when the mayor of Londonderry , Councillor Albert Anderson , produced a letter which he claimed had come from the working committee . |
| 6 | Much later , it seemed , she awoke and when she turned over and looked towards where the chanting had come from the African men and women had eaten and were packing away and decamping . |
| 7 | Opposition to the ban had come from the traditional whaling countries of Norway , Iceland and Japan , joined by St Vincent and St Lucia . |
| 8 | The only real Italian resistance had come from the 370 officer pupils of the School of Infantry , who were stationed in a building in the Giardino Pubblico . |
| 9 | And so although his early contributors had come from the European tradition which preceded the Great War , by the early Thirties he had come to rely more and more upon British contributors . |
| 10 | Both animals , with many others , had come from the higher parts of the rivers . |
| 11 | They claimed the move had been simply to bring Scotland into line with England and Wales and that the initiative had come from the big bookmakers , who would be the main beneficiaries . |
| 12 | Sports editor Bob Edwell , who had come from the Daily Express in London , was looking for sports writers , and above all the paper needed its back bench staffed by the all-important sub-editors , who prepare the reporters ' words ( the copy ) for the paper , and write the headlines . |
| 13 | I found it strange that those words had come from the Parliamentary Secretary because , when I read them , I thought that they had been written by the Labour candidate , John Metcalfe , because there was no other indication that that article had been written by a Minister of the Crown who is responsible for this country 's agriculture . |
| 14 | The treasure had come from the French baggage captured at Vitoria in Spain , a country where Sergeant Patrick Harper had found both wealth and a wife . |
| 15 | At the [ material ] time the plaintiff had come from the back door of the house and had walked diagonally across the first concrete area ; she was intending to go and have a chat with her neighbour at the next house . |
| 16 | In relation to transfer , about 50 per cent of employment had come from the local area and almost 25 per cent from the region . |
| 17 | Most funding had come from the Urban Programme , amounting to about £9 million per annum . |
| 18 | The shot had come from the left fork . |