Example sentences of "came [adv prt] from [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the groceries came down from a grand shop in London but she 'd order perishable goods from her brother and then send a servant to complain of the quality . |
| 2 | When the clock struck , the preacher came down from a little room behind the platform , followed by ten or a dozen men who looked like prosperous City merchants . |
| 3 | She might have sat all afternoon , nibbling and stuporous , exhausted but not sleepy ; but the glazier finally came down from the upper floor , cheerfully announcing that all was now right and tight and he would be on his way . |
| 4 | My talk with Quintin had more content since he said that if another peer came down from the Upper House he would withdraw from public life whether he was in the Upper or Lower House . |
| 5 | The smells that came down from the higher ground might tell him something . |
| 6 | Thousands of imported sheep had left their devastating mark and the latest ‘ crop ’ , the deer , finished off any saplings the sheep might have missed when they came down from the high tops in the winter . |
| 7 | He landed and stared down at me and at the blood of my broken wing , his terrible beak opening just a little with the pleasure of what he saw ; while I hung there , trying to watch all three at once and knowing that one of them would attack suddenly and then be gone as another came in from a different direction . |
| 8 | The ceremony was in the hands of Mr Alexander Dubcek , who came in from the political cold less than 24 hours before , to be elected head of the new-style Federal Assembly . |
| 9 | But nobody cared for the stones he told And he sat all alone of a night Until one day a traveller came in from the cold A sorry and miserable sight . |
| 10 | Grants came in from the Welsh Office , Welsh Tourist Board and the local authorities allowing the newly formed Brecon Mountain Railway Company to take on permanent staff for line construction and a stone-faced workshop ( in keeping with other buildings in the National Park ) built at Pontsticill . |
| 11 | A bright red Porsche came in from the wrong end , ignoring the arrows and signs . |
| 12 | It was Thursday 5 September and he was about to leave his office to drive to Bramshill Police College to begin a series of lectures to the Senior Command Course when the call came through from the private office . |
| 13 | Fearing a tragedy of epic proportions — her mind leapt at once to Penini and then to Miss Arabel — she knocked on the open door and Mr Browning came through from the other room , so haggard and drawn in contrast to his morning self that once more she was convinced something dreadful had happened . |
| 14 | Then , two minutes before the end of the game , the news came through from the other ground that Sunderland had lost . |
| 15 | The County Council took into account a wide range of considerations , in including the the information that came through from the local plan authorities , in the preparation of their local plans over the past ten years or more . |
| 16 | When they went into their bedroom at night , cold air came up from the polished linoleum like air off an ice rink . |
| 17 | One day , their father Mr Earnshaw came back from a long journey . |
| 18 | It is only two weeks since Gough came back from a multiple fracture of the cheekbone . |
| 19 | It is only two weeks since Gough came back from a multiple fracture of the cheekbone . |
| 20 | So this was how a submarine came back from a successful patrol ! |
| 21 | Battling Boro came back from a 1–0 half-time deficit to take the semi-final into extra time through a fine goal by Bernie Slaven . |
| 22 | He came back from a serious back injury last season , but was injured again at the weekend . |
| 23 | In midweek , Northern Rail ( Mick O'Brien , Jimmy Knowles , Tommy Garner ) came back from a 20 deficit to win 3-2 against Hornby Road Sports , who suffered their first setback of the season . |
| 24 | The portal was commissioned by Gaston IV , the then Count of Béarn , when he came back from the First Crusade . |
| 25 | Boxer came out from the nearby farmhouse carrying a bag of oats and waved . |