Example sentences of "[vb past] come from a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sound seemed to come from a heap of stones that lay well back among the trees . |
| 2 | Its legs — if it had legs — were covered in what looked like a large brown sheet , and the light seemed to come from a kind of lamp attached to the back of what could , or could not , be its head . |
| 3 | It seemed to come from a bin outside the bank . |
| 4 | Another train was due and , listening through headphones , he was puzzled by inexplicably eerie sounds which seemed to come from a group of trees nearby , above the cutting . |
| 5 | Changes in the aid given to poor petitioners in 1914 , together with the effects of World War I , produced an increase in the divorce rate after 1918 , but it was not until 1946 that legal aid became freely available and therefore not until 1951 that divorce petitions began to come from a cross section of the population . |
| 6 | I went to Croke Park and I had not the slightest interest in Protestantism but I did come from a Fermanagh family where you did live cheek by jowl with republicanism so I had imbibed it undoubtedly and it resurfaced , the inherited knowledge of the heart of the controversy in Ulster . |
| 7 | The calls had come from a call-box because there 'd been the call-box signal before the money was put in . |
| 8 | Mack Sennett had come from a New England working-class background and he had himself worked as a plumber 's mate . |
| 9 | Susie had come from a village ten miles from the Oxfordshire market town in which the school was placed : her previous village primary school had had two teachers ; her experience in that school at a younger more protected age seemed to her less interesting and more childish . |
| 10 | His strong , even teeth glinted white against the bronze of his skin , and with a peculiar detachment Shannon found herself wondering if the tan had come from a sun-bed or even a bottle . |
| 11 | And she also reminded herself that even if it had included a kiss it did n't mean a thing — especially as it had come from a man who was living in the outback to get away from women . |
| 12 | On arriving at Luxeuil amid the wild beauty of the Vosges mountains , the volunteers who had come from a year in the trenches with the Legion or from the spartan discomfort of the Ambulance Service , thought that life was almost too good to be true . |
| 13 | On Aug. 13 three soldiers and four guerrillas were killed when 50 members of a Hutu opposition group , who had come from a refugee camp in Tanzania , attacked an army barracks at Madamba in the south of the country . |
| 14 | Vlok said that the money had come from a fund established to combat international sanctions . |
| 15 | Rita confessed her frock had come from a Beverly Hills shop which was so snooty the assistant asked her if she had an appointment : ‘ I asked , ‘ Why , do the dresses have something else to do ? ’ ’ |
| 16 | His instructions had come from a book by Seve Ballesteros called Natural Golf . |
| 17 | They never thought for a moment about reverting to conventional agriculture , although Gareth had come from a research job with ICI . |
| 18 | He had come from a bulk tanker that had tied up in the oil terminal in Kuwait harbour , thanked the Master who had allowed him to work his passage from the port of Perth , and gone ashore . |
| 19 | It had come from a chateau outside Paris , as had some of the other beauties . |