Example sentences of "[noun prp] come from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then requested Lucy and Jean to come from the kitchen , and , standing between them , he placed an arm round their shoulders as he said , ‘ This is Lucy and Jean , who have attended to your refreshments on behalf of Stella , my hostess , who is indisposed . |
| 2 | She knew that Richard came from the castle and understood that his family was the family to which all the others deferred , but now instead of intimidating her Richard 's status seemed to impart a sense of protection . |
| 3 | Like the most famous of all American Presidents , Harry Truman came from the mid-West ; and he too had some of the qualities which contributed to the greatness of Abraham Lincoln — honesty , courage and a willingness to accept responsibility . |
| 4 | Jonquil came from the back . |
| 5 | The green speckled Spartan basalt used at Knossos came from the south Peloponnese ; a store-room in the East Wing of the Knossos Labyrinth held a supply of Spartan basalt blocks at the time of the temple 's abandonment in 1380 BC . |
| 6 | Jonathon came from the train with a porter behind him loaded with their gear . |
| 7 | Another way of making the same point about the superior and the inferior societies of France and Scotland came from the pen of the French ecclesiastic Estienne Perlin , who visited England and Scotland in 1551–2 . |
| 8 | The Plantagenets come from the Devil , and to the Devil they will surely go ! |
| 9 | The craftsman 's view of Lloyd Webber comes from the lyricist Don Black : " Andrew 's tunes reek of melody , in a world that does n't have much melody . |
| 10 | Superintendent Michael Pumfrey came from the Swessex Police Headquarters at Sturford . |
| 11 | Lizzie came from the back of the house to greet them and insisted on helping them carry in Sara 's boxes , packages and various belongings . |
| 12 | Lizzie came from the kitchen to tell her Jenny had phoned and was arriving a day earlier . |
| 13 | Thus although the political initiative for the start of NEP came from the top , the economic life-blood at first began to flow from the bottom upwards . |
| 14 | The high-pitched whine from his Williams comes from the engine , not the cockpit . |
| 15 | The project under discussion for Liverpool comes from the confidence of two religions prepared to work together to build a new primary school . |
| 16 | The water used in brewing Guinness comes from the catchment areas in the Wicklow Mountains close to where the Liffey rises and is particularly suited to the brewing of stout because of its purity and softness . |
| 17 | The family had finished their supper when she got home , but her temper was soothed by her reception : Herr Nordern coming from the bedroom to greet her , Omi fussing , Erika getting her meal , even Paul helping her off with her coat , although he rather spoiled his effect by then chucking it over the back of a chair instead of hanging it up . |
| 18 | The initiative for forming the Communist Party of the Russian Republic in 1990 as a Russian organisation within the CPSU came from the OFR . |
| 19 | Most of the stipend at Durham came from the canonry . |
| 20 | The sample from Tornewton came from the cave of that name ( Sutcliffe & Zeuner , 1962 ) , and the owl was roosting in an overhead tree and dropping its pellets in through the top of the cave ( see p. 96 ) . |
| 21 | The difference with Burton came from the scale on which he did it , the talents he gambled , the colossal winnings , the rupturing losses , the public glare in which increasingly it took place and the undeniable fact that in the middle of this maelstrom was always a quiet , reading man whom Cis would have recognised with relief as the boy sitting beside the fire , buried in a book . |
| 22 | The modern name of France comes from the word frank , though the characteristics of the early Franks were very far removed indeed from those of the modern French peoples . |
| 23 | They were still sitting together when Hotspur came from the prince 's apartments . |
| 24 | The XT came from the middle of the word ‘ extra ’ , which was meant to imply that this new model had better expansion capabilities than the PC . |
| 25 | Italian government falls as it is revealed that Vatican money to rescue Olivetti came from the Mafia ; Cosa Nostra says ‘ we were just doing Our Thing ’ . |
| 26 | Azmaveth came from the north and spoke with a strange accent . |