Example sentences of "came [adv prt] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | came down from the clouds one day . |
| 2 | One by one , the men came down from the top of the rock , and sat with their arms around each other , out of the wind . |
| 3 | The barges used to come down the Leeds and Liverpool canal right down to Tate and Lyle 's , where they had chutes that came down from the building into the barges and the coal was sucked up because the coal was very fine ; and the poor people there — they 'd be on the other side of the canal and one would perhaps get on a barge and throw two or three pieces of coal and then scamper up . |
| 4 | This may sound harsh , but it seems to me that when we lost our empire our eyes came down from the horizon and looked at our feet . |
| 5 | A professor came down from the university to investigate the project . |
| 6 | D'Aubigny , however , came down from the dais and shook Agrippa 's hand vigorously before allowing the doctor to introduce both my master and myself . |
| 7 | That jarring manifestation of furious technology seemed as remote and ridiculous as a dream , as silence settled down on Kielderhead and the hawk 's whistle came down from the moors . |
| 8 | Huge space-age lights came down from the ceiling to flash in time to the thudding pulse of the music . |
| 9 | In 565 he came down from the islands to try and convert a Pictish king . |
| 10 | He could see by the dark light that came down from the night sky , a sky that glowed with vivid city lights , that on stands in nearby cages other eagles were listening to his story and staring at him silently . |
| 11 | At Christmas they always played ‘ You came down from the stars ’ and at Easter they usually played a Pastorale , and what with the roar of the traffic and the crowds of chattering shoppers or tourists it was practically impossible to distinguish the tune except in short bursts . |
| 12 | At Teheran airport they came down from the plane with Koreans in their hands . |
| 13 | There was Lindsay like this little tremulous Pierrot ( because Lindsay was very little at the time — much thinner ) in these little white tights , and the coat which was like a little 18th century golden coat came down from the flies , if we were lucky enough to have any up there . |
| 14 | Then at the appropriate moment , he unfurled a battered black umbrella , shielding his camera as he came down from the car . |
| 15 | He might have been listening to Moses when he came down from the mountain . |
| 16 | It was as if Moses came down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments to find Christ and the disciples standing in the crowd . |
| 17 | So we both came down from the mountain . |
| 18 | Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved |
| 19 | Trails of misty Lochaber rain came down from the Nevis mountain range and the round purple heather-clad hills of Glen Loy . |
| 20 | Ramapithecus was one of several primates , such as the baboons , which came down from the trees to develop terrestrial living . |
| 21 | These primates came down from the trees and gradually learned to walk upright . |
| 22 | Bats developed " send/receive " switching technology long long ago , probably millions of years before our ancestors came down from the trees . |
| 23 | Nurse Jones was a busy woman and he valued the minutes he had with her over a cup of tea when she came down from the bedroom . |
| 24 | He came down from the knoll and seemed to be searching for somebody . |
| 25 | George MacDonald saw the people from Strathnaver arriving at the sea : ‘ When they came down from the Strath to the sea-shore they suffered very much from want of houses . |
| 26 | And Moses came down from the mount bearing the two tablets of stone . |
| 27 | Towards noon , the Lord Hasan 2nd , on whose name be peace , wearing a white garment and a white turban , came down from the castle , approached the pulpit from the right side and in the most perfect manner ascended it . |
| 28 | He was waiting for them with his barge by the first footbridge over the canal as they came down from the moor . |
| 29 | In her plain blue suit she came down from the Clubhouse with two of the owners who seemed to want to be near the horses at ground level . |
| 30 | Most of the owners came down from the Clubhouse to watch the saddling of the runners in the Jockey Club Race Train Stakes , and all the sportier of them wore the rosettes . |