Example sentences of "come [adv] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It omitted to point out that the story had come entirely from Nigerian , and mainly official , sources . |
| 2 | Every season he appears in over 100 concerts on all five continents and at major international festivals , including the ‘ IDRIART ’ festivals which have been taking place since 1983 to encourage people to come together from east and west , and in America from north and south , through the international language of the arts . |
| 3 | That we would wait for our mother to come home from work with ‘ Lucky Packets ’ full of sherbet , that most of our childhood had been outdoors and here we were inside , with our dad home again , our dad who we had n't seen for four years , here we were having crossed the equator with nine suitcases , where flying fish leapt from the sea , to be in this place . |
| 4 | Instead of having to come home from work and worry about wrapping up the Christmas presents , or writing letters to friends , or having a long conversation with someone in the family who needs a bit of support , and fitting all that in after the children have gone to bed and the supper 's been washed up and you really ought to be reading papers for tomorrow 's meeting , I know I have a chunk of time when I can get on with doing all that . |
| 5 | To come home from work and sit in front of the TV all evening does not make us feel better . |
| 6 | Rezia is waiting for her son to come home from school . |
| 7 | He did not mind , because he was waiting for his boy to come home from school and then he 'd have his run along the riverbank . |
| 8 | Ruth Atucehene , an immigrant from Ghana , said : ‘ I had just come home from church and I was in the house with my children . ’ |
| 9 | She would usually leave the house after we had come home from school at four p.m . |
| 10 | She had come home from school with Antonia . |
| 11 | Well when I was down at the er council that May , I told them there and then that er I 'm prepared to er let one of the council men come to our house , about eight o'clock in the morning , and then stop till ten and then come back again about two and wait till they come home from school which they would n't have come home from school , but they go across the road and come back again , double back as if they 'd been to school |
| 12 | By which time the tenants have come home from work or they 've been out for a few hours , say they 've been out from twelve till six . |
| 13 | Sometimes , you 've just come home from work and your feet are sore and your head aches , but then the music starts playing and away you go . |
| 14 | Physicists know only too well from studying crystalline materials that an understanding of solid-state physics is borne out of a sure knowledge of atomic structure and this has come traditionally from X-ray crystallography . |
| 15 | It is advisable to wear loose , comfortable clothing , although if you have come straight from work this may not be possible and is not essential . |
| 16 | All her attention was on her first bite of bread which tasted as if it had come straight from Paradise . |
| 17 | Because I had come straight from college , it was really difficult for me to tolerate that sort of behaviour , so I managed to er convince the workers to form a union . |
| 18 | Many of the younger officers have come straight from training school and have only known Grendon Prison , they slip into the regime quite easily . |
| 19 | When we got there it really was a mess but services had come even from West Chelsea and we had to go back in case any of our unexploded bombs went off and we were needed nearer the river . |
| 20 | More to come yet from record offshore field |
| 21 | Secondly data structures are already beginning to come apart from use structures and GIS plays a central role in this . |
| 22 | But they had always kept in touch , by letter and occasionally by telephone , though recently Caro 's calls had come either from work or from a public kiosk . |
| 23 | Twenty years ago more than three quarters of Imperial 's total income came directly from government in the form of a grant . |
| 24 | ‘ But after rowing about it for ages , I came home from work the other day and it was n't on . |
| 25 | On the one hand she thought she would possibly enjoy a hour 's gardening when she came home from work and that it would help her unwind , but on the other hand her adult children and her husband would expect tea at 6 p.m . |
| 26 | Another friend of mine , a man who spent most of his adult life looking after his elderly parents until they both died within a year of each other , came home from work one evening and suddenly realised that he could go to the cinema and have a meal out without worrying about anyone else . |
| 27 | Every day when Dad came home from work he went into the bedroom and did n't come out . |
| 28 | I came home from work and I could hear sobbing in her bedroom . |
| 29 | She was very excited by the stickers and would tell her father when he came home from work . |
| 30 | ‘ She would give me a hug and a kiss when I came home from work . ’ |