Example sentences of "come [adv] from the [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 | 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 … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The les fortunate guests had to come daily from the new hotel on Persepolis or even form Shiraz , forty miles away . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As she lifted it out , she realized that the backing was beginning to come away from the heavy cream cardboard of the mount . |
| 8 | Sorry , the ghost has n't come over from the other side of the door , it just keeps moving by itself . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Many of Scotland 's football stars have come originally from the amateur ranks . ’ |
| 11 | An Oxford aid worker who 's just come back from the Croatian capital Zagreb , says the situation there is getting out of hand . |
| 12 | ‘ To us , he had come back from the dead , ’ his mother , Camilla Swann , said yesterday . |
| 13 | When Cardiff had come back from the dead , he had shrunk away back down the hessian-screen corridor towards Rohmer . |
| 14 | Apart from paintings from the Antwerp , Vienna and Cologne collections loans have come mainly from the European public collections , from Stockholm to Berlin . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Rope and spars came mostly from the Baltic states and the convoys got through with difficulty . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Thousands of imported sheep had left their devastating mark and the latest ‘ crop ’ , the deer , finished off any saplings the sheep might have missed when they came down from the high tops in the winter . |
| 21 | The ceremony was in the hands of Mr Alexander Dubcek , who came in from the political cold less than 24 hours before , to be elected head of the new-style Federal Assembly . |
| 22 | I admire several of John le Carré 's novels , particularly The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and The Perfect Spy , and I like the tension and clever plotting upon which the spy novel depends . |
| 23 | Like Denny , Eamon McAuley came in from the cold last night for a good win ( pts 6 ) over Manchester visitor Russell Davidson . |
| 24 | But nobody cared for the stones he told And he sat all alone of a night Until one day a traveller came in from the cold A sorry and miserable sight . |
| 25 | Grants came in from the Welsh Office , Welsh Tourist Board and the local authorities allowing the newly formed Brecon Mountain Railway Company to take on permanent staff for line construction and a stone-faced workshop ( in keeping with other buildings in the National Park ) built at Pontsticill . |
| 26 | A bright red Porsche came in from the wrong end , ignoring the arrows and signs . |
| 27 | It was Thursday 5 September and he was about to leave his office to drive to Bramshill Police College to begin a series of lectures to the Senior Command Course when the call came through from the private office . |
| 28 | Fearing a tragedy of epic proportions — her mind leapt at once to Penini and then to Miss Arabel — she knocked on the open door and Mr Browning came through from the other room , so haggard and drawn in contrast to his morning self that once more she was convinced something dreadful had happened . |
| 29 | Then , two minutes before the end of the game , the news came through from the other ground that Sunderland had lost . |
| 30 | The County Council took into account a wide range of considerations , in including the the information that came through from the local plan authorities , in the preparation of their local plans over the past ten years or more . |