Example sentences of "come [adv] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |
2 | Said his friend-cum-mentor , Irving Layton , in looking back over the period , ‘ I had a very sharp feeling in the early fifties that poetry in Canada had come in from the cold and was starting to gain momentum . ’ |
3 | Ed Morrison allowed John Jeffrey to come in from an offside position and ‘ collect ’ a passing movement between two Japanese players while Hayashi was tackled without the ball when a try seemed certain for Japan . |
4 | A lot of flood water had come down from the upper reaches of the Cherwell , and a body placed in the river , say , at Lonsdale Road … |
5 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
6 | Either a spark had come down from the old fellow 's hole up there or him with hobnail boots had trod on er black powder and set it off and his hole went out underneath his feet . |
7 | The les fortunate guests had to come daily from the new hotel on Persepolis or even form Shiraz , forty miles away . |
8 | He needed to come down from a greater height than most . |
9 | The report adds that the question of " burden sharing " is crucial , as past accumulations of greenhouse gases have come largely from the industrialised world while future growth is likely to come increasingly from the developing nations . |
10 | As she lifted it out , she realized that the backing was beginning to come away from the heavy cream cardboard of the mount . |
11 | Sorry , the ghost has n't come over from the other side of the door , it just keeps moving by itself . |
12 | It was after her mother had come home from a solitary trip to Rome . |
13 | To acknowledge hunger ( which is not a disease but a social illness ) would be tantamount to political suicide among leaders whose power has come traditionally from the same plantation economy that produced that hunger in the first place . |
14 | ‘ They seemed convinced a whole lot of people had come up from the big city to show off , to be grandees , which was far from the truth . |
15 | The rise in the popularity of herbs as medicinal remedies is less obvious but it seems to have come partly from a general dissatisfaction with synthesized drugs , as well as plastics , artificials and chemicals — " manufactured " articles of all kinds , which are being rejected in favour of substances naturally grown and formed by hand into the artifact required . |
16 | ‘ Many of Scotland 's football stars have come originally from the amateur ranks . ’ |
17 | An Oxford aid worker who 's just come back from the Croatian capital Zagreb , says the situation there is getting out of hand . |
18 | ‘ To us , he had come back from the dead , ’ his mother , Camilla Swann , said yesterday . |
19 | When Cardiff had come back from the dead , he had shrunk away back down the hessian-screen corridor towards Rohmer . |
20 | ‘ Dear Loretta , ’ she read , ‘ I 've just come back from an official trip to Italy , and I squeezed in a visit to a peace camp while I was there . |
21 | The other , Bath and England B star Audley Lumsden , is just lucky to have his chance , having come back from an horrific , career-threatening broken neck . |
22 | Apart from paintings from the Antwerp , Vienna and Cologne collections loans have come mainly from the European public collections , from Stockholm to Berlin . |
23 | Witney Town turned in an excellent performance to come back from a two goal deficit to snatch a point against mid-table Yate . |
24 | The finds from the Harappan sites in the Indus basin , sparse and dating from several centuries later , are more likely to have come independently from the common Afghan source . |
25 | The report adds that the question of " burden sharing " is crucial , as past accumulations of greenhouse gases have come largely from the industrialised world while future growth is likely to come increasingly from the developing nations . |
26 | Rope and spars came mostly from the Baltic states and the convoys got through with difficulty . |
27 | Most of the groceries came down from a grand shop in London but she 'd order perishable goods from her brother and then send a servant to complain of the quality . |
28 | When the clock struck , the preacher came down from a little room behind the platform , followed by ten or a dozen men who looked like prosperous City merchants . |
29 | She might have sat all afternoon , nibbling and stuporous , exhausted but not sleepy ; but the glazier finally came down from the upper floor , cheerfully announcing that all was now right and tight and he would be on his way . |
30 | My talk with Quintin had more content since he said that if another peer came down from the Upper House he would withdraw from public life whether he was in the Upper or Lower House . |