Example sentences of "[noun prp] came from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Jonquil came from the back . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Jonathon came from the train with a porter behind him loaded with their gear . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Superintendent Michael Pumfrey came from the Swessex Police Headquarters at Sturford . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Lizzie came from the kitchen to tell her Jenny had phoned and was arriving a day earlier . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The initiative for forming the Communist Party of the Russian Republic in 1990 as a Russian organisation within the CPSU came from the OFR . |
| 12 | Most of the stipend at Durham came from the canonry . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They were still sitting together when Hotspur came from the prince 's apartments . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | Azmaveth came from the north and spoke with a strange accent . |