Example sentences of "come from his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert 's own Christian name , as we know , had come from his maternal grandfather , Robert Hasted , and he passed it on to his second child , Robert Edward ; thereafter the same name would continue in that branch of the family until well into the 20th century . |
| 2 | When Jeff Tyson was put up for the job of guitarist for Californian metal trio T-Ride the recommendation came from his ex-guitar teacher , Joe Satriani . |
| 3 | For the money came from his new father-in-law . |
| 4 | The longest came from his great rival , William Ewart Gladstone — that clocked in at a mind-numbing four hours and 45 minutes . |
| 5 | A whiff of staleness came from his disturbed jacket . |
| 6 | Boone 's inspiration came from his personal experiences as temporary ‘ keeper ’ of the amazingly intelligent German shepherd dog , Strongheart , who became a Hollywood ‘ film star ’ back in the 1950's . |
| 7 | But from the nature of the reply which came from his private office , it was clear that he wanted a personal talk . |
| 8 | De Pomiane himself said the recipe came from his Polish mother . |
| 9 | Hugo himself was lithe , elegant and charming with a slight edge of fascinating middle-European foreignness that came from his Bulgarian father . |
| 10 | ‘ He was suspended for two weeks for the abuse offence , one week for a previous sin-bin and then the rest came from his past cases . ’ |
| 11 | Perhaps that came from his own experience of human love — we do n't really know . |
| 12 | Thomas May 's earlier assumption would have been a perfectly natural one had he been dealing with a museum collection , but here at Templebrough , the sherds came from his own excavation , and the only conclusion to be drawn is that he had very little conception of the significance of stratified deposits . |
| 13 | Thereafter the sees were filled ; Sidonius himself returned to Clermont , where the chief opposition to him came from his own clergy . |
| 14 | He saw an arc of blood , and knew that it came from his own neck . |
| 15 | Gunn is acknowledging the dream as an act of reassurance coming from his own soul , not that of his dead friend . |
| 16 | David was coming from his own lodging , pale and grave and preoccupied , with his child-wife by the hand . |
| 17 | I give the hon. Gentleman the benefit of the doubt and assume that he did not hear what I said , not once but twice , perhaps because of the noise coming from his hon. Friend the Member for Carrick , Cumnock and Doon Valley ( Mr. Foulkes ) , seated beside him , who referred to 236 admissions . |
| 18 | Alfred 's dark looks come from his Italian mother and Spanish father |
| 19 | The principal evidence for Scott 's radical opinions comes from his extensive diaries and other unpublished writings . |
| 20 | That there was sufficient evidence to establish the guilt of the first appellant on the basis of his own actings was from his first ground of appeal where it was stated : ‘ The evidence of what he himself did comes from his own statements corroborated by bloodstains found on his clothing ’ . |