Example sentences of "came [prep] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came with us from the orphanage back home , two hundred heads in two hundreds beds and two hundred broken hearts under two hundred army surplus blankets and the good nuns to look after us . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ He came at her from the front then ? ’ |
| 6 | An explosive snort came at him from the centre of the room behind him . |