Example sentences of "came from a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The light came from a long mirror surrounded by unshaded bulbs . |
| 2 | No school-children so far , but I can hear the first faint scrapes and slushing of householders beginning to clean their pavements , and the sound is strange and hard to recognise in the almost silent air , seeming as if it came from a long distance , a country sound in the wrong place . |
| 3 | Each came from a long cross by Jamie Webb . |
| 4 | Each came from a long cross ( not gules but or ) by Jamie Webb . |
| 5 | His father came from a long line of bone-setters in Anglesey , but by the middle of the nineteenth century medical opinion was becoming increasingly hostile to these unqualified practitioners , and Evan Thomas sent all of his five sons to study medicine at Edinburgh University . |