Example sentences of "had come from a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The calls had come from a call-box because there 'd been the call-box signal before the money was put in . |
| 2 | Mack Sennett had come from a New England working-class background and he had himself worked as a plumber 's mate . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Vlok said that the money had come from a fund established to combat international sanctions . |
| 9 | 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 ? ’ ’ |
| 10 | His instructions had come from a book by Seve Ballesteros called Natural Golf . |
| 11 | They never thought for a moment about reverting to conventional agriculture , although Gareth had come from a research job with ICI . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It had come from a chateau outside Paris , as had some of the other beauties . |