Example sentences of "had come from [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | There was no fresh capital , the project did not have a specific budget so any money had to come from existing tight maintenance and operating budgets . |
2 | It had to come from some distance away since over the centuries the trees and bushes on both sides of the river had been lopped down . |
3 | Jack Millar himself recalled a few stories of his experiences as a salesman , much to the amusement of all present , including his family who had come from far and wide to be there . |
4 | Ahmed had come from that dizzy town to boast that he had seen a bad strange girl leaving Marie Claire 's house and had shouted and thrown stones at her . |
5 | The competition was to take place in August and , although she was for ever panicking about what they still could n't do , she tended to overlook how far they had come from first beginnings . |
6 | More seriously , he thought that it was probably a corrupt version of some such name as Krankovitz or Krankovsky , indicating that one branch of the family had come from eastern Europe . |
7 | People would stop in the street asking how we were and where we had come from all in perfect English . |
8 | Surviving papers relating to the removal of 433 paupers and vagrants between 1740 and 1762 show that 40 per cent of these unfortunates had come from other parts of East Anglia , 15 per cent had travelled up to 100 miles , 6 per cent had started from London and Middlesex and 39 per cent originated elsewhere , including thirty-three people from Scotland and sixteen from Ireland . |
9 | But by then , the show-down had come from one of support for the clergyman to one of outright resistance to the regime . |
10 | Local residents again pointed out that so far all the dust that had blown had come from one three-acre section of the lake : ‘ The worry is that if it 's not attended to and if the entire 150 acres rise up and start blowing at the same time it could be a national disaster . |
11 | I had the impression — fleeting , I grant you — that the photo had come from one of the pockets . |
12 | That would have set them a puzzle , would n't it , if the fibres had come from one of them ? ’ |
13 | A defence lawyer said both defendants had come from broken homes and had been brought up by their mothers . |
14 | Opposition to the scheme had come from both international environmental groups and from local communities and Indian organizations . |
15 | The initial legal advice had come from Foreign Office lawyers . |
16 | The initial legal advice had come from Foreign Office lawyers but the contrary advice came from Sir Nicholas . |
17 | The vehicles had come from diverse locations such as stately homes , shooting estates , garages , scrap yards and castles . |
18 | Even the family car had come from some Church-loan scheme . |
19 | A lot of the men , had come from this pit where dad worked . |
20 | A number had come from scientific backgrounds , fathers ( usually ) were nuclear physicists , engineers , doctors or maths lecturers , and often provided an impetus to study science through discussion of it at home or through help with homework . |
21 | No , we had a cheque which we presumed had come from Social Services |
22 | We sent a message of solidarity to the 250 women on board the ship , who had come from different parts of the world including the Arab Region . |
23 | One feels that Nyerere was specifically addressing educated people like himself , who had come from different backgrounds , absorbed European culture and manners , discovered a common nationalist cause and gone through a political campaign successfully together , yet still knew relatively little about one another 's cultural traditions . |
24 | Fund raising for the state-of-the-art machine began in 1987 and senior technician Peter Barton said help had come from several organisations including the WRVS , the Guides and the League of Friends . |
25 | If they had come from any other man or woman in the kingdom of Scotland , they would have been considered treasonable ; writing to her brother Henry , Margaret made constant pleas for the English to send troops into Scotland to restore her as Regent and crush any opposition to her and the Earl of Angus . |
26 | On the infrastructural side , most of the investment had come from Urban Programme and derelict-land grant sources . |
27 | Initial funding had come from local businessmen and delegates — mostly businessmen themselves — from a dozen countries had paid their own air fares and hotel bills . |
28 | The Scots trailed 12-0 to Nadroga at the interval though , as in Canberra , the opposition scores , through Lala and Esala , the latter 's converted by Suka , had come from Scottish largesse when originally in possession . |
29 | The Scots trailed 12-0 to Nadroga at the interval though , as in Canberra , the opposition scores , through Lala and Esala , the latter 's converted by Suka , had come from Scottish largesse when originally in possession . |
30 | Whatever information they had came from such second-hand reports as they were bound to pick up either in Marseilles or in Italy or in the Balkans , without having to visit the country for themselves . |