Example sentences of "come [adv prt] from a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one of them is a copy-editor , I think that is what he is called , and he told me that he thought the item had come in from a friend of Leila 's . ’ |
| 2 | She opened the door before Massingham had time to ring , her handsome shield-shaped face composed under the light brown fringe , and looking in her shirt , slacks and leather jerkin as elegantly informal as if she had just come in from a country walk . |
| 3 | The puppy was probably encouraged to jump up when he was small and everyone thought it was quite fun , but now he is large , and has probably just come in from a swim in the pool and Aunty is standing there in her Sunday best . |
| 4 | One of her few friends in the movement , whom she used to meet at Lockharts in the Strand for a poached egg once a week , had come down from a mill town in Lancashire in 1916 with nothing but two brown paper parcels . |
| 5 | Different players will find it harder than others to come down from a game . |
| 6 | It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way . |
| 7 | ONLY a dealer who had just come back from a weekend in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to hear of yesterday 's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for Caradon , the Twyfords and Everest building products group , so comprehensive has been the pre-match publicity . |
| 8 | A film editor friend has just come back from a couple of weeks of yoga , a music producer I know goes to St James , Piccadilly , where they have spiritual talks on a Monday evening , while a designer friend does Chi-Kung , a Chinese movement like Tai-Chi , where you have to ‘ stand like a tree ’ . |
| 9 | By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel . |
| 10 | Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back . |
| 11 | The noise alerted a woman who came in from a side door and challenged him quite sharply . |
| 12 | On Saturday 4 June , I came in from a morning 's canvassing in Sutton Coldfield to find an urgent message to call Conservative Central Office . |
| 13 | In addition I recovered three William III sixpences that came up from a depth of between 9 to 10 inches . |
| 14 | In some places metal sinks and is covered over so quickly that even Victorian losses can be out of range ; at the other end of the scale I found a 14th century key in a wood , that came up from a depth of only 2 inches . |
| 15 | They came back from a surprise David Currie opener to level in the second half through Steve Walsh . |
| 16 | But Eric came back from a working holiday and Peter was out for a little while , was n't he ? |
| 17 | Everton came back from a goal down to beat Blackburn 2–1 . |
| 18 | When she came back from a date with the Prince she would be full of sympathy for him uttering phrases like ‘ they work him too hard ’ or ‘ it 's appalling the way they push him around . ’ |
| 19 | I recently came back from a trip to Egypt and despite the fact that I enjoyed the food there , I had an urge to make a really wholesome fish pie . |
| 20 | I came back from a business trip to find her gone . ’ |
| 21 | Then one time she came back from a job and had a trendy , short cut . |
| 22 | This sense of coping with the ‘ business of living ’ was one of the themes that came out from a study conducted by the writer and a colleague from the Tavistock Institute for a client in 1974 ( see Appendix One ) . |
| 23 | As she waited at the only traffic lights in the main street , her attention was caught as a man came out from a hardware shop . |
| 24 | The A.832 now heads south up a wooded ravine , rising pleasantly to open country , the latter section of the climb being defaced by a huge water pipe coming down from a reservoir above : a black mark for the planners and water authorities . |
| 25 | And then coming down from a point on King Street just to the left of the existing tree , if you can imagine that , and coming back across the marketplace |
| 26 | Coming in from a film background myself , and being film-minded , I found I was soon in demand to help out with film sequences — ultimately being asked to direct these sequences for Directors who did n't have much experience with the medium . ’ |
| 27 | It is the purest form of finding out about an ancient site , but it does depend on the ability of the observer to distinguish information that may be coming in from a variety of sources . |
| 28 | That time we 're just coming in from a nightclub . |
| 29 | Recently my wife and I had to travel from Holyhead to Aberystwyth when coming back from a funeral in Ireland . |
| 30 | The women died when their hired Astra crashed into the back of an army convoy coming back from a show in the early hours . |