Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] come from a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I 've come from a bit farther than Chelsea tonight , " |
| 2 | ‘ Well , master , ’ I neighed , ‘ I 've come from a country on the other side of the world . |
| 3 | I 've come from a village background actually , and homelessness was n't a major problem in our villages because a lot of these sorts of characters somehow were adopted by the community . |
| 4 | Well firstly the bill did n't have that rough a passage in the House of Lords , because there are only two basic amendments , er that we 're dealing with in the House of Commons that matter , and one of them is the one you 've just mentioned , the answer to it is this , er I 've had a lot of criticisms of giving B R the untrammelled right to bid , er right from the outset their criticisms to do with the danger that you would n't get competition for the franchises the private sector would be afraid , and incidentally this is not a sell off it 's it 's a way of getting the private sector into British Rail with all the advantages that brings , they would be afraid that they would face subsidized and unfair competition , above all , perhaps , British Rail ge=management would feel if they were bidding against their employer that would be a real discouragement to bid , and we 've a lot of evidence er that they feel that and that there are many who do wish to bid in management/employee buy outs , so what we 've done in the amendment is we 've preserved the right for British Rail to bid , but we 've dealt with those criticisms and worries which have come from a lot of quarters not least from within British Rail itself . |
| 5 | And yet because you 've come from a P A Y E background , you feel you 've got to get up in the morning , and go to work . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But now that computer animation looks so real , some advertising agencies are insisting that the images they pay For must look as if they have come from a computer . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It had come from a chateau outside Paris , as had some of the other beauties . |
| 11 | 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 . |