Example sentences of "had come from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he found out his daughter had a stroke he had to come from America and look after her and like then , from then on , he was just like , had that money in the bank , really . |
| 2 | C. Under the guidance of the two men shown on the left , the skills of the Belfast shipbuilders made the shipyard of Harland and Wolff the greatest in the world , even though the steel had to come from Scotland . |
| 3 | He was aware that his powers were limited : ‘ The civil service , the police , the judiciary , defence and external affairs were all in the hands of the Governor and … all decisions thereon had to come from Whitehall ’ ( p. 147 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ The locomotive for our London to Glasgow train was based in Leicester , ’ Mr Gisby says , ‘ so it had to come from Leicester to London before it did any work . |
| 5 | At Tain the ancient stones in the graveyard above the railway line looked in as I ate an apple bought in Ness in Lewis that had come from Spain . |
| 6 | That shipment too had come from Spain and had been tracked by Customs . |
| 7 | Although he had been born in Wine Street , Bristol , his cloth-making ancestors had come from Wellington , and his grandfather had farmed in the remote Somerset hamlet of Rich 's Holford below the southern slopes of the Quantock Hills ; his eccentric uncle , John , was comfortably established in a ‘ most delightful villa ’ a mile from Taunton , and Bath had intermittently been Southey 's own home since childhood . |
| 8 | She admitted she had come from London to gain recruits for the Communist Party , but denied any attempt to stir up strife . |
| 9 | The second item had come from Fischer in Alexandria . |
| 10 | The main impetus for this had come from Roh 's policy of improving links with communist regimes , which had resulted in the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and its eastern European allies in 1988-91 . |
| 11 | It was not until 1881 that the world 's Methodists held their first Oecumenical Conference in London 's City Road Chapel : the suggestion had come from America . |
| 12 | It had come from America in a parcel . |
| 13 | His doctor constantly suggested to him the benefits of sun and sea air ( not that he needed any encouragement to visit the sea , since it still evoked for him the happiest memories ) , and in July they travelled , with Eliot 's sister who had come from America , to the Isle of Wight for two weeks . |
| 14 | Spiritualism had come from America , and had aroused great excitement there . |
| 15 | No word had come from Rose , and surely she would have cancelled their arrangements at the least hint of scandal ? |
| 16 | I discovered he had come from South America . |
| 17 | Further pressure for North Korea to sign the safeguards agreement had come from Japan . |
| 18 | Marshall suggested that a quarter of all the acid rain which had fallen on Norway in the previous century had come from Britain . |
| 19 | The most elaborate response for broad-ranging rationalisation had come from Britain in 1952 with the Eden Plan , but this had been a response to Britain 's anxiety about what the little Europe of the Six might achieve . |
| 20 | Speaking in Dublin after meeting an Irish-American delegation led by former Congressman Bruce Morrison , he said that ‘ optimistic signals ’ had come from Britain indicating that the talks could be re-started . |
| 21 | Still in the realm of half-backs , the original conclusion from the post-match inquest into who had called the back-row move which led indirectly to that heartbreaking injury to Craig Chalmers — that it had come from half-back — was subsequently rescinded . |
| 22 | The text of Lumen Gentium had been more or less left alone , but it was now prefixed by an ‘ Explanatory Note ’ ( Nota praevia ) which , it was clear when Archbishop Felici communicated it formally to the Council two days later , had come from Pope Paul himself . |
| 23 | It was true that Harvey Newbegin 's family had come from Russia but there was nothing Slavic about him that anyone but Signe could detect . |
| 24 | Chris , Marius and the Swiss who had come from Lille were here ; Alex had been turned down at the last moment on a medical detail . |
| 25 | Others she favoured included Nigel Lawson , her Chancellor of the Exchequer , the grandson of a refugee from Latvia , and David Young , to whom she gave a peerage and a seat in the cabinet — his father had come from Lithuania . |
| 26 | Her father had come from Lithuania and started working as a tailor 's presser , then he ran a clothes shop in the parlour of his house in Strangeways . |
| 27 | He loitered , untroubled but curious , for they were no small company , and by the line of their march they had come from Ruthyn . |
| 28 | The old man had been a seaman , and they had come from Chatham seeking a relative who had once lived next door , but who they found had moved . |
| 29 | They had come from Italy . |
| 30 | Elizabeth 's older brother , Richard , 34 , had come from Somerset to see the place where his ‘ little sister ’ died — and to join in a defiant swim from the murder beach . |