Example sentences of "came [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The radicalism of the campaign came wholly from the Conservatives , redolent of the shift in the political and intellectual climate of the period generally since 1974 . |
| 2 | The rich vicarage of Churcham , valued at £20. 4s. 5½d. , had no glebe at all , while not only was there none at Tirley , the vicar 's income of £9. 6s. 8d. came wholly from the farm of the tithes . |
| 3 | Rope and spars came mostly from the Baltic states and the convoys got through with difficulty . |
| 4 | Howard Seymour , of BZW , said the profits came mostly from the write-down of Barratt 's land banks , which made up much of the losses 18 months ago . |
| 5 | The thing came right from the top of the company . |
| 6 | Resistance to this proposal came especially from the SPD in both East and West Germany , which supported the idea of early unification but not of bringing forward the elections in the West . |
| 7 | She might have sat all afternoon , nibbling and stuporous , exhausted but not sleepy ; but the glazier finally came down from the upper floor , cheerfully announcing that all was now right and tight and he would be on his way . |
| 8 | This may sound harsh , but it seems to me that when we lost our empire our eyes came down from the horizon and looked at our feet . |
| 9 | There was Lindsay like this little tremulous Pierrot ( because Lindsay was very little at the time — much thinner ) in these little white tights , and the coat which was like a little 18th century golden coat came down from the flies , if we were lucky enough to have any up there . |
| 10 | He came down from the knoll and seemed to be searching for somebody . |
| 11 | That jarring manifestation of furious technology seemed as remote and ridiculous as a dream , as silence settled down on Kielderhead and the hawk 's whistle came down from the moors . |
| 12 | Ramapithecus was one of several primates , such as the baboons , which came down from the trees to develop terrestrial living . |
| 13 | He might have been listening to Moses when he came down from the mountain . |
| 14 | George MacDonald saw the people from Strathnaver arriving at the sea : ‘ When they came down from the Strath to the sea-shore they suffered very much from want of houses . |
| 15 | Trails of misty Lochaber rain came down from the Nevis mountain range and the round purple heather-clad hills of Glen Loy . |
| 16 | Thousands of imported sheep had left their devastating mark and the latest ‘ crop ’ , the deer , finished off any saplings the sheep might have missed when they came down from the high tops in the winter . |
| 17 | The barges used to come down the Leeds and Liverpool canal right down to Tate and Lyle 's , where they had chutes that came down from the building into the barges and the coal was sucked up because the coal was very fine ; and the poor people there — they 'd be on the other side of the canal and one would perhaps get on a barge and throw two or three pieces of coal and then scamper up . |
| 18 | Then at the appropriate moment , he unfurled a battered black umbrella , shielding his camera as he came down from the car . |
| 19 | In her plain blue suit she came down from the Clubhouse with two of the owners who seemed to want to be near the horses at ground level . |
| 20 | Most of the owners came down from the Clubhouse to watch the saddling of the runners in the Jockey Club Race Train Stakes , and all the sportier of them wore the rosettes . |
| 21 | It was as if Moses came down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments to find Christ and the disciples standing in the crowd . |
| 22 | He was waiting for them with his barge by the first footbridge over the canal as they came down from the moor . |
| 23 | At Christmas they always played ‘ You came down from the stars ’ and at Easter they usually played a Pastorale , and what with the roar of the traffic and the crowds of chattering shoppers or tourists it was practically impossible to distinguish the tune except in short bursts . |
| 24 | These primates came down from the trees and gradually learned to walk upright . |
| 25 | Nurse Jones was a busy woman and he valued the minutes he had with her over a cup of tea when she came down from the bedroom . |
| 26 | came down from the clouds one day . |
| 27 | The smells that came down from the higher ground might tell him something . |
| 28 | He could see by the dark light that came down from the night sky , a sky that glowed with vivid city lights , that on stands in nearby cages other eagles were listening to his story and staring at him silently . |
| 29 | One by one , the men came down from the top of the rock , and sat with their arms around each other , out of the wind . |
| 30 | In 565 he came down from the islands to try and convert a Pictish king . |