Example sentences of "it come from [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The previous owner tells me he thinks it came from a 1976 vehicle but the distributor and starter motor are dated 1972 , 1971 . |
| 2 | I was about to return fire but saw it came from a Croatian position . ’ |
| 3 | She sucked again from the tea-bulb , feeling its plastic smoothness dent as it emptied , knowing it came from a floating colony like she did but not knowing why it should be used on a steady-gravity planet like Mars . |
| 4 | No school-children so far , but I can hear the first faint scrapes and slushing of householders beginning to clean their pavements , and the sound is strange and hard to recognise in the almost silent air , seeming as if it came from a long distance , a country sound in the wrong place . |
| 5 | It is an area I do not know and the reason for choosing it came from a close friend who has put up with the knowledge of my obsession for many years now and still remains the closest of friends . |
| 6 | But it came from a reliable source . |
| 7 | And an achene is a small , single-seeded fruit that does not open , which you might mistake for a nut unless you know that it came from a single carpel . ) |
| 8 | After entering I found it came from a little sister of those drowned Children , that was singing to a bundle of clouts , rudely put together to look like a Doll , which she held in her arms . |
| 9 | It came from a wooden hut at the edge of a field . |
| 10 | It came from the far side of the hotel ; I walked along the balcony to the far end . |
| 11 | It came from the following advisers : trade union , medical , employer , police , potential defendant , AA/RAC , the advisee 's own insurance company , workmate or fellow patient , friend , relative . |
| 12 | Howard Barker is described in the programme as a playwright ‘ known for his robust stance ’ — feet apart , biceps raised ? — ‘ against the tide of TV obsessed populist drama , ’ but the dialogue in A Hard Heart sounds as if it came from the violet-ink-filled pen of Oscar Wilde . |
| 13 | It came from the top floor . |
| 14 | She felt even sorrier for him with that stammer when he went up to read the first lesson , and had to announce that it came from the eighth chapter of Deuteronomy , a word which took him four goes . |
| 15 | You see , it came from the same thing . |
| 16 | It came from the slashed body . |
| 17 | Its arguments may raise a smile now , but it came from an experienced pastor to an intelligent and dedicated missionary , and was clearly directed to some of the major preoccupations of Germanic and other pagans . |
| 18 | The unfortunate thing is that a good part of it came from an unexpected direction . |
| 19 | It came from an unexpected quarter . |
| 20 | Fundamentalism is a belief system that can not be refuted because it comes from a supreme being . |
| 21 | Here is another and it is an interesting and rewarding exercise to translate this into language with plain meaning It comes from a Japanese journal , clearly influenced by trans-Pacific pomposity . |
| 22 | It comes from a malicious poem about the Vicar or.the Parish " whose constant care was no man to offend " . |
| 23 | It comes from a third-party source DG declines to identify and is already used in high-end sites . |
| 24 | This list 's provenance should be carefully noted , since it comes from a retail bookseller , and is therefore intended primarily to sell books . |
| 25 | It is called Kulta and it comes from the distant reaches of Lapland . |
| 26 | During the pressing operation , the first juice to emerge from a grape is called the cuvée and it comes from the central zone of pulp . |
| 27 | I think it comes from the treated paper the barons use . |
| 28 | It makes a change that the burden of more want is put on the central government instead of local authorities , because too often in the past , central government has said , in many issues , oh , we think you should have that , but the responsibility for paying for it comes from the local authority . |
| 29 | This is all true , but it comes from the same Mr Punch whose magazine proudly carried a Maxwell tribute the week after the fat man died . |
| 30 | Both these words were used in medieval times ; and we can understand the word knacker as an equivalent for harness-maker when we learn that it comes from an Icelandic root , knakkr , meaning a saddle . |