Example sentences of "come [adv prt] from [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The waiting-room was moderately full and there were several clients who had come in from neighbouring villages .
2 By that date Moscow had provided a mere three and a half million roubles , and one million had come in from other gubernii .
3 No British team have ever come back from three goals down in the history of European competition .
4 And Rodger has only just come back from three weeks ' rehabilitation at Lilleshall .
5 Having a parasite is a very special , very intimate experience , as Bill Cater learned when he interviewed scientists and wildlife cameramen who had come back from exotic parts to discover that they 'd acquired various new things to share their lives with .
6 He was back to his best after a series of poor displays and scored a goal as he inspired Lazio to come back from two goals down to snatch a 2-2 draw .
7 The name was useful , though — to himself he did not deny it — and as information came in from other places , more reliable , more official , Parr began to be disturbed .
8 Overseas aid came in from many quarters ( including South Africa ) ; the landlocked Zambians brought in health officials from all their neighbours to try to limit the spread of the disease , which nevertheless struck Malawi .
9 Meanwhile , according to the Annual Register , petitions against the suspension of cash payments came in from all corners .
10 Both these men became good friends of mine and I frequently visited their homes to deliver large sacks of fan-mail which came in from all parts of the country and the northern U.S.A.
11 For the next half-hour I rattled the results as they came in from local stations all over the country .
12 Hence the mansi remained absi , in the sense of not having a dwelling on them , since those who worked them came out from existing farms and it was from those that dues were paid .
13 Small flocks coming in from all directions joined the first arrivals until many thousands were stretched out in long parallel black lines .
14 This may cut out a certain amount of light , but as there are two windows in one corner , the room has light coming in from two directions and is probably lighter than average anyway .
15 erm the roads are really not , not made to cope and so we have to try to get people coming in from different areas and different directions so that we do n't get everybody on one road and nobody on another .
16 I remember people coming in from funny countries — you know , Turkish people and Indian people , and Americans coming in to play oboe .
17 But the attempt to remove the deer failed in both forests , because fresh stock kept coming in from adjoining woods .
18 Always touch the walls of an old abbey — for the currents of ancient idea coming through from learned men , and for the systems that housed them .
19 We now had the air crews coming back from low-level sorties over France and Belgium and reporting damage they had seen to docks and military installations , and , much more upsetting , roads thronged with refugees all trying to get away from the zones of fighting .
20 Complaints may come on from suppressed emotions or vexations .
21 Complaints may come on from electric changes in the atmosphere .
22 We are struggling for a terminal at which trains can come in from all parts of the country , at which there can be an interchange for the continent and at which people can move on relatively quickly .
23 Richard Beddall says … it 's a great amateur sport which cane be done a shoestring … with old landrovers and jeeps … and it 's a safe sport … a lot of other people come in from other sports such as motor racing and motor cycling
24 It 's where prisoners come in from other jails .
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