Example sentences of "[vb mod] have come from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fire blazed in a huge hearth beneath an oak lintel which , to judge by its thickness , must have come from a tree already at least a hundred years old when it was felled to help build this ancient building . |
| 2 | He must have come from the country for the lava-lava was rarely seen in the towns , however small . |
| 3 | I felt a sharp stab in my head so I reached up and found a piece of hay stuck in my hair , it must have come from the farm . |
| 4 | Kerry Evans said at Shrewsbury Crown Court that he asked Edward Browning about the blood , and was told that it must have come from an animal he had hit while driving to Scotland . |
| 5 | Layered bodies of rock , such as might have come from a succession of lava flows , are rare on the Moon , and those observed might be the result of other processes , such as impacts . |
| 6 | After a few minutes , his breathing quickened and he started making noises that might have come from a monkey-house at feeding time . |
| 7 | This might have come from a WEA rally . |
| 8 | His shiny black coat could have come from a labrador and there was a suggestion of terrier in the pointed nose and priced ears , but the long string-like tail and the knock-kneed fore limbs baffled me . |
| 9 | We disembark , walking down the rusting ramp over white cockleshell sand and water so clear it could have come from a tap . |
| 10 | My feet were secured by a length of electric cable which could have come from a table lamp . |
| 11 | It has already been suggested that comment in C under 1020 , 1023 and 1030 was added from other sources , and E's entry on Archbishop Wulfstan 's death in 1023 could have come from an Easter Table entry , although the additions made by D and E to 1022 , and by D alone to 1023 , seem too extensive to be from such a source . |
| 12 | You could buy salmon , which I suspect could have come from the King 's Reach skirting Balmoral ) for 2/6d a pound ; and there was no dearth of whisky for which I had yet to acquire a taste . |
| 13 | A potential complication of the analysis could have come from the influence of the partner on the pulsar , had it been comparable with our Sun in size as well as in mass . |
| 14 | Gravel on the shoes that could have come from the Cathedral . |
| 15 | Prison governor Peter Leonard agreed the idea could have come from the TV movie Murder , Smoke And Shadows , starring Peter Falk as the shabby sleuth Columbo . |
| 16 | Therefore , if the dust ages are correct then little of it could have come from the sort of rocks found in the lunar samples . |
| 17 | He called for ‘ democracy through good behaviour ’ , a maxim that could have come from the mouth of Chairman Mao . |
| 18 | Compound documents of this type are traditionally assembled by layout artists from the various elements which may have come from a typesetting house , design studio , photographer or elsewhere . |
| 19 | A court has been told that the idea for an elaborate murder plot , in which a couple were pushed over a cliff in a blazing car , may have come from a film on satellite television . |
| 20 | A plain black obsidian which the Minoan craftsmen tried may have come from the Siftlik area of Cappadocia . |
| 21 | There was ‘ vague information ’ that the person concerned might have eaten an egg which may have come from the monastery , Mother Catherine said . |
| 22 | A gold-mounted disc of amber found at Knossos may have come from the Wessex culture of southern England . |
| 23 | He was a wealthy man , and although some of his wealth may have come from the profits of war , he benefited substantially from Edward 's patronage . |
| 24 | A similar decision would have come from the White House by now were it not for the delay in finding a defence secretary . |