Example sentences of "had come from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the conventional wisdom , successful presidential candidates had to come from the middle of the political spectrum . |
| 2 | However , the document 's final approval had to come from the Pope himself , a task the Pontiff apparently relished . |
| 3 | When it was pointed out that the figure of £274 million had come from the Government 's Supply Estimates , he said he was not familiar with such a figure in relation to the jetty . |
| 4 | My best course would have been to follow the track to the village , strike the road , and then to go along the road until I met the track by which I had come from the shore . |
| 5 | A smile came to his lips as he thought of the thing he had bought Fei Yen that very evening , after he had come from the boy . |
| 6 | Someone had come from the school and seen Emma , who had laughed them to scorn . |
| 7 | The German Foreign Ministry called for a fairer distribution of the burden of aid to the CIS , citing figures produced by the European Commission which showed that about 75 per cent of all aid to the Soviet Union since September 1990 had come from the EC and 57 per cent from Germany alone ( the figure included humanitarian aid , credits and special payments for troop withdrawal made by Germany ) . |
| 8 | I had come from the hotel expecting to return , and was quite unprepared . |
| 9 | Mind you , a lot of them had come from the army and from the navy — but I do n't think that makes man 's nature alter to that effect . |
| 10 | She had come from the BBC . |
| 11 | So the flooding had not been from the lake — which hitherto I had assumed to be the case ; maybe it had come from the river whose bed , now dried , I had seen from my eminence on the hillside . |
| 12 | He was aware of only one pay-out to a salmon farm , and he was not sure if that money had come from the emergency fund . |
| 13 | ‘ Anyone would think you had come from the country . ’ |
| 14 | First , Iraq has threatened to attack Israel and Saudia Arabia with missiles and bombs if war breaks out in the Gulf ; the Iraqi News Agency said the warning had come from the country 's Air Force Commander . |
| 15 | Maj. Joseph Michel François , acknowledged by diplomats to have been a ringleader , insisted to foreign journalists that the main impetus had come from the ranks of the 8,000-strong army who feared the growing influence of Aristide 's new foreign-trained 50-member presidential guard . |
| 16 | The piece tended to blame left-wing publications , whereas in fact the most virulent opposition to the Council had come from the Italian — and to some extent the French — ultra-right . |
| 17 | The suggestion about the car had come from the rifleman — he 'd asked if I had a car , and I 'd said yes , because I did n't want them to know that I 'd come by boat . |
| 18 | It had come from the London Group of members , but the Operations Department have not yet come to a decision on this . |
| 19 | The sound had come from the kitchen and Charlotte led the way through to where Frank Griffith sat smoking over the remains of a bread and cheese lunch . |
| 20 | The solution was provided by Mark Cole , a brilliant climber and naturalist who had come from the UK with us . |
| 21 | He spoke to the lad who had come from the workhouse at the same time as Lydia . |
| 22 | Somehow Florian 's words must have summoned the memory of that first time they had worked together , long years ago , and that sensation of a shadow falling on her had come from the past . |
| 23 | Additionally , William Sherard had sent seeds from Rome and others had come from the Oxford Garden and from Scotland . |
| 24 | No courier had come from the south . |
| 25 | We learned soon that the money for Frank had come from the wife of our new romantic juvenile , Laurence Wheldon , a blonde and willowy man whose good looks far exceeded his acting powers but whose wife 's money was underwriting the company , to say nothing of her husband 's ambitions . |
| 26 | To-day a wild letter had come from the wife of one who refused subordinate office which will give me a sleepless night . |
| 27 | They had come from the Murray . |
| 28 | And , yes , it was made by Kemp , although some doubt could quite properly have been harboured on the matter : Ashenden knew the man , and knew his voice ; and in spite of what was probably a poorish extension-line , confirmation that the call was from Kemp had come from the telephone-operator , someone else who knew him — knew him very well , in fact . |
| 29 | The frustration was perhaps greatest among the senior men who had come from the company sector , but municipal engineers also could find the professional , full-time and expert Central Authority control daunting in comparison with the earlier part-time , politically-appointed municipal electricity committees which had been easier to manipulate . |
| 30 | It was less than an hour since Chen had come from the singsong house ; not time enough for anyone to have discovered Liu Chang 's body , or for the girls to have undone their bonds . |