Example sentences of "come [adv prt] from [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I think most people heard about it from r.s.s. , but I hope some have come on from TSB .
2 I think most people heard about it from r.s.s. , but I hope some have come on from TSB .
3 The senior man , who had come in from Los Angeles to E.B.I.H.Q. after Erlich had left Washington , he 'd be everybody 's friend , he 'd have them eating out of his hand down at Counter-Terrorism , he 'd probably take out citizenship .
4 His stage set , along with the thumping music , flashing lights , and dry-ice clouds that go with it , had just come in from Scotland , and was due to head south as soon as we television camp-followers had done our reports in front of it .
5 Apart from that , though , the whole crew might have just come in from Ellis Island Caduta herself was clearly the queen bee here .
6 He wants me to have some tinned pears which have come in from South Africa .
7 It was what should have happened to him when he had come in from Athens , and had n't .
8 She had come in from work one evening to find her mother and father dead in each other 's arms .
9 Look at all the billions that have come in from North Sea oil and privatization .
10 Recalled the team of copy humans who had come in from Mars to kill him .
11 On the eve of her sailing , she learned from a spokeswoman of the Queen 's that news had come in from Cyprus : that Diniz Vasquez her husband 's young kinsman was trapped in Famagusta .
12 I ca n't send her away — she 's come in from Chesmore . ’
13 Information has come in from readers , amused , serious and knowledgeable .
14 However , reports of severe damage and high casualty figures began to come in from communities situated closer to the ‘ quake 's epicentre , and they learned that the emergency services were bringing many of the most badly injured victims in to the capital .
15 There were a few complaints of poverty and the money was slow to come in from Norfolk and Yorkshire .
16 Medical supplies are scarce , but as a prelude to this week 's talks PNG allowed some to come in from Australia .
17 He had come down from Oxford a few months ago obsessed with the idea of social service .
18 Meanwhile , our base rates have come down from 12% ( they never officially went to the 15% level announced on Black Wednesday ) to 7% and should fall further .
19 The farmers going to market had come down from Barking and Ringshall and those places , and on the rough owd country roads they managed ; but as soon as they got to the tarred road in Needham street they had to stop .
20 I had come down from London looking for a job .
21 But anyway , talking about engineering as a whole , quite obviously it 's interesting to go back a bit because I 'm always interested in the way the institutions actually started because er there 's a lovely story about er , the Stephenson brothers and tho , ju , having just come down from Scarborough on a mini-holiday we stopped at York and I went over a great big museum there , and quite obviously seeing the marvellous locomotives you realise that George Stevenson had er , a lot to do with that .
22 One day Jesus said to his friends : I am the Bread of Life I am the living Bread which has come down from heaven Anyone who eats this bread Shall live for .
23 It is significant that one of the few occasions when the author of Ancrene Wisse hints at the contemplative experience occurs in his account of the behaviour appropriate at the Mass : ( After the kiss of peace in the Mass , when the priest communicates , forget the world , be completely out of the body , and with burning love embrace your Beloved who has come down from heaven to your heart 's bower , and hold Him fast until He has granted you all that you ask . )
24 The shares have come down from 795p since the toxic waste issue blew up .
25 His girlfriend , Hazel , had come down from Leeds for the weekend .
26 Cecilia went down the steps at West Hampstead station and stood on the lefthand platform waiting for the train to come down from Kilburn .
27 He was glad of the distraction , having earlier received a wire from Hilary who , at the last minute and in spite of cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-die promises , found it impossible , after all , to come down from London for the first night of Peter Pan .
28 Early in his time as prime minister he asked Ramsey to come down from York so that they could meet .
29 And a few seconds ago an urgent message had come through from GCHQ at Cheltenham .
30 Fielding Goodney , with all kinds of developments : a " dream script " had come through from Doris Arthur , Caduta Mass and Butch Beausoleil had put their signatures on the line , Spunk wanted in , Lorne wanted out — Lorne Guyland was going crazy , or was staying that way .
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