Example sentences of "come to [pers pn] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then words had come to him from the sky . |
| 2 | In fact , he was so happy with the idea that had come to him from the writer , Peter Shaffer , he began the serious rethink of his career which friends like Lance Percival had been thinking for some time was overdue . |
| 3 | They have come to us from a time before recorded poets . |
| 4 | Strings sound silky but not close and the woodwind come to us from a perfectly judged distance . |
| 5 | He , too , suffered from an occasional enlightening vision which came to him from the dim past and which he must have suppressed at the time … |
| 6 | She vaguely heard Matilda 's angry voice , but it came to her from a great distance . |
| 7 | But it all came to her from a distance . |
| 8 | These images came to her from the metal engravings of the conquest of Libya which had appeared in the illustrated journals ; she did not remember the different countries of the Italian empire in question , for all of Africa — Libya , Somalia , Eritrea alike — beat out a rhythm of adventure and spoils and heroism . |
| 9 | ‘ He came to me from a very reliable source . ’ |
| 10 | All , like these picture perfect Labradors , going to new owners who believe their dream puppy came to them from a caring environment . |
| 11 | Five years after the revolution Lenin complained that the Communist Party had good political control only over the top echelons of the vast bureaucracy : ‘ Down below , however , there are hundreds of thousands of old officials who came to us from the Tsar and from bourgeois society and who , sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously , work against us ’ ( quoted in Merkl , 1977 , pp. 166–7 ) . |
| 12 | As you know , these programmes come to you from the University of Sussex , and if you 've listened to any of them in the past , you 'll know that they 're devoted to topics and subjects in which we feel we have some expertise , and which we think would be of special interest to the local community . |
| 13 | It comes to us from the age which gave us the Great Charter , and founded the House of Commons . |
| 14 | Evidence of such allowances comes to us from the time of Augustus Caesar . |
| 15 | This programme comes to you from the University of Sussex . |