Example sentences of "had come from [art] [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 | The creditors had come from every corner of the globe and filled up the ballroom of the Sheraton Hotel in Toronto with their lawyers and advisers . |
| 4 | The calls had come from a call-box because there 'd been the call-box signal before the money was put in . |
| 5 | Mack Sennett had come from a New England working-class background and he had himself worked as a plumber 's mate . |
| 6 | Susie had come from a village ten miles from the Oxfordshire market town in which the school was placed : her previous village primary school had had two teachers ; her experience in that school at a younger more protected age seemed to her less interesting and more childish . |
| 7 | His strong , even teeth glinted white against the bronze of his skin , and with a peculiar detachment Shannon found herself wondering if the tan had come from a sun-bed or even a bottle . |
| 8 | And she also reminded herself that even if it had included a kiss it did n't mean a thing — especially as it had come from a man who was living in the outback to get away from women . |
| 9 | On arriving at Luxeuil amid the wild beauty of the Vosges mountains , the volunteers who had come from a year in the trenches with the Legion or from the spartan discomfort of the Ambulance Service , thought that life was almost too good to be true . |
| 10 | On Aug. 13 three soldiers and four guerrillas were killed when 50 members of a Hutu opposition group , who had come from a refugee camp in Tanzania , attacked an army barracks at Madamba in the south of the country . |
| 11 | Vlok said that the money had come from a fund established to combat international sanctions . |
| 12 | Rita confessed her frock had come from a Beverly Hills shop which was so snooty the assistant asked her if she had an appointment : ‘ I asked , ‘ Why , do the dresses have something else to do ? ’ ’ |
| 13 | His instructions had come from a book by Seve Ballesteros called Natural Golf . |
| 14 | They never thought for a moment about reverting to conventional agriculture , although Gareth had come from a research job with ICI . |
| 15 | He had come from a bulk tanker that had tied up in the oil terminal in Kuwait harbour , thanked the Master who had allowed him to work his passage from the port of Perth , and gone ashore . |
| 16 | It had come from a chateau outside Paris , as had some of the other beauties . |
| 17 | After that would probably rank the new Cobe evidence , together with earlier results from the same satellite , which showed that the background radiation was indeed thermal , that is it had come from an explosion and was not produced by some other mysterious microwave source . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Someone had come from the school and seen Emma , who had laughed them to scorn . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | I had come from the hotel expecting to return , and was quite unprepared . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She had come from the BBC . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ Anyone would think you had come from the country . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |