Example sentences of "had come from a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She broke down and wept bitterly when Wexford told her that that her husband 's supplementary income had come from a criminal source . |
| 2 | Despite the fact that he had come from a long line of soldier forebears , even the combination of breeding , upbringing and training no longer made it easy for him to bear the tedium of army life with good grace . |
| 3 | I stopped wearing Tampax ( cotton wool pricks ) , and I stopped eating meat in case the chunk of sizzling corpse I was about to sit down to had come from a male animal . |
| 4 | From the spot in the hedgerow where the four German soldiers had come from a white flag tied to a long piece of wood had suddenly appeared . |
| 5 | The information had come from a reliable source and they had no reason to doubt it . |
| 6 | The tip had come from a reliable source . |
| 7 | I knew so little about who had held them and how they had got out , it seemed as if they had come from a different world , a different time . |
| 8 | Later it was revealed that the money had come from a different source . |
| 9 | Their so-called furnished accommodation had consisted of two old beds that had come from a second-hand shop , a brokendown settee , and a gas cooker that had probably been used all through the war . |
| 10 | He had come from a miserable place . |
| 11 | The idea had come from a short documentary I saw years ago called Werner Herzog Eats His Show . |