Example sentences of "come from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prison governor Peter Leonard agreed the idea could have come from the TV movie Murder , Smoke And Shadows , starring Peter Falk as the shabby sleuth Columbo . |
| 2 | Working class intellectuals have often come from the ranks of printers in the past , but it is rare to find one such who like Jean Henderson was a woman . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Also , their inmates may often have come from the ranks of the noble and landowning class . |
| 5 | The two ivory ‘ Divine Boy ’ figurines described by Evans as probably having come from the Labyrinth , may well be representations of Velchanos before and after puberty . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I do n't I thin I think there 's probably a lot lot less sexism just in terms of I think we 've won their respect by you know and and certainly when th they did n't want us to picket in the beginning , and then over the months really the women have done quite a lot of successful picketing when we 've been asked and and we 've staged quite big pickets quite a lot of you know the big pickets were really organized and the rallies have been organized by us and really sort of quite a lot of the input into into the strike I think has come from the women 's support group in in quite a unique way . |
| 8 | It had come from the London Group of members , but the Operations Department have not yet come to a decision on this . |
| 9 | The chlorine we detect in the rivers has actually come from the ocean . |
| 10 | It retains the font from the old priory church and the bell is thought to have come from the priory refectory . |
| 11 | The papers scattered through the contents of the Quaker Oats box have not come from the Unit 's files . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I had come from the hotel expecting to return , and was quite unprepared . |
| 14 | He spoke to the lad who had come from the workhouse at the same time as Lydia . |
| 15 | These 10 places will in the main come from the middle 549 clubs who by their status do not qualify for the Cup . |
| 16 | Razumikhin himself may or may not have come from the country , but he is certainly a member of the floating , unbelonging population of students and ex-students , and he records in simple puzzlement that Raskolnikov has been growing increasingly moody and suspicious and introverted ; ‘ he has no time for anything , people are always in his way , and yet he lies about and does nothing ’ — a confirming echo of Raskolnikov on his bed telling Nastasya the maid that he is working , by which he means thinking . |
| 17 | We have come from the country to a city , and I shall have a chance to get settled in and find new friends before they all take off . |
| 18 | ‘ Anyone would think you had come from the country . ’ |
| 19 | He must have come from the country for the lava-lava was rarely seen in the towns , however small . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The initiative has come from the order of Irish Dominican monks who live at San Clemente , and particularly from Father Leonard Boyle , prefect of the Vatican Library and former member of the community . |
| 22 | You could buy salmon , which I suspect could have come from the King 's Reach skirting Balmoral ) for 2/6d a pound ; and there was no dearth of whisky for which I had yet to acquire a taste . |
| 23 | Did the new scheme come from the philosophy of government 's financial managers to save money rather than from the YTP providers themselves ? |
| 24 | The ‘ meaning ’ of the dream seems therefore not to have been implicit in the dream itself but to have come from the interaction between its imagery and Stevenson 's consciously controlled imagination — ‘ All the rest was made awake … ’ |
| 25 | Further support for this concept has recently come from the work of Iftikhar et al who showed higher concentrations of bile in oesophageal aspirates from patients with Barrett 's columnar lined lower oesophagus . |
| 26 | She had come from the BBC . |
| 27 | A plain black obsidian which the Minoan craftsmen tried may have come from the Siftlik area of Cappadocia . |
| 28 | The solution was provided by Mark Cole , a brilliant climber and naturalist who had come from the UK with us . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Backing has also come from the Strathfoyle Community Association , which has just celebrated its 20th anniversary . |