Example sentences of "[vb past] come [adv prt] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , reports of severe damage and high casualty figures began to come in from communities situated closer to the ‘ quake 's epicentre , and they learned that the emergency services were bringing many of the most badly injured victims in to the capital . |
| 2 | The Scots had come over from Ireland and colonised most of Galloway , Kintyre and Arran . |
| 3 | The task of of carving through the English countryside was carried out by unskilled navvies , many of whom had come over from Ireland to earn a living . |
| 4 | At the end of the match Comte Ghislain de Vogüé of Moët et Chandon , who had come over from France especially for the match and the luncheon that preceded it ; and Viscountess Marchwood , wife of the managing director of Moët et Chandon UK , presented the Moët et Chandon prizes , and Miss Liz Kershaw the publisher of Harpers & Queen presented the Harpers & Queen trophy . |
| 5 | Falling under the spell of an older , flamboyantly dressed and well-educated kinsman , Esme Stuart , who had come over from France , he was suspected of dangerously Papist leanings and of some unnatural sexual habits . |
| 6 | The Kleibers had come over from Germany some years before the war , and settled in Poplar . |
| 7 | Our older son had come over from San Francisco with his wife and the three children , so they were all here . |
| 8 | On 5 June one of two Iranian F-4s that had come over from Bushehr , looking for another kill off the Saudi coast , was shot down by the Saudis ' more advanced F-15s , armed with the Raytheon Sparrow missile and guided on to their targets by AWACS surveillance craft . |
| 9 | I had already employed an attendant , Toril , who had come over from Norway at the end of July to help me during and after my move . |
| 10 | Everyone was wandering around the house getting everything ready for my uncle who had come over from Nigeria . |
| 11 | He too , was proud and as he looked round the crowded pews of St Christopher 's in Englefield , New Jersey , he thought of what a good turn-out it was considering that so many of them had come up from New York . |
| 12 | He was a ‘ blackshirt ’ ( fascist ) and was one of fifty who had come up from London to act as stewards . |
| 13 | Ibn Fayoud looked at the place settings , noting that the few racing contacts he had been obliged to invite had sensibly been distributed among the more amusing people who had come up from London . |
| 14 | You , th cos the railway men used to make the path , cos the terrific amount of railway men used to work down at and most of our round consisted of railway people and most of them had come up from Wales and places like that . |
| 15 | And a few seconds ago an urgent message had come through from GCHQ at Cheltenham . |
| 16 | Fielding Goodney , with all kinds of developments : a " dream script " had come through from Doris Arthur , Caduta Mass and Butch Beausoleil had put their signatures on the line , Spunk wanted in , Lorne wanted out — Lorne Guyland was going crazy , or was staying that way . |
| 17 | It was what should have happened to him when he had come in from Athens , and had n't . |
| 18 | She had come in from work one evening to find her mother and father dead in each other 's arms . |
| 19 | The senior man , who had come in from Los Angeles to E.B.I.H.Q. after Erlich had left Washington , he 'd be everybody 's friend , he 'd have them eating out of his hand down at Counter-Terrorism , he 'd probably take out citizenship . |
| 20 | On the eve of her sailing , she learned from a spokeswoman of the Queen 's that news had come in from Cyprus : that Diniz Vasquez her husband 's young kinsman was trapped in Famagusta . |
| 21 | Recalled the team of copy humans who had come in from Mars to kill him . |
| 22 | McFarlane had come back from London in December 1985 disgusted with the bartering , repelled by Ghorbanifar and wanting to abandon the operation . |
| 23 | Would they find each other much changed , or would it be like it was when he had come back from school for the holidays ? |
| 24 | She remembered that fated evening when she had come back from Wimbledon after seeing Hindley Foster . |
| 25 | Ever since that ghastly winter 's night when she had come back from Wimbledon and said she was pregnant . |
| 26 | When he had come back from Grasmere the first thing he had done — despite George Wood 's vehement protests — was to pay back the loan and bring his hotel bill up to the mark . |
| 27 | The British army had come back from Dunkirk with nothing but its rifles . |
| 28 | Peter had come back from hospital in his own but in tearing good spirits . |
| 29 | The farmers going to market had come down from Barking and Ringshall and those places , and on the rough owd country roads they managed ; but as soon as they got to the tarred road in Needham street they had to stop . |
| 30 | I had come down from London looking for a job . |