Example sentences of "[pers pn] have come from a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In role the teacher enters as a traveller to tell them that she has come from a neighbouring village , where Roman soldiers are delivering a decree that all will have to pay a new tax ; the traveller has to go on her way . |
| 2 | I knew so little about who had held them and how they had got out , it seemed as if they had come from a different world , a different time . |
| 3 | They have come from a war-ravaged country where their parents or friends have thought the best thing to do is to get them on a plane to some safer place . |
| 4 | Despite the fact that he had come from a long line of soldier forebears , even the combination of breeding , upbringing and training no longer made it easy for him to bear the tedium of army life with good grace . |
| 5 | He had come from a miserable place . |
| 6 | There are some slight variations in it , and it 's come from a different U S mill and , for example , there are three items at the end which were required and you offered us six millimetres , they 're now six point three five millimetres , which is quarter inch , that 's fine , erm . |