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 After both his first two visits Frere came unhappily from the bedroom , managing a brave but unconvincing smile and admitting only his boundless gratitude to Louisa for her pains .
8 Although the current intake came entirely from the college 's National Certificate Programme , the aim is to broaden the entry .
9 Fundamental criticism of the idea of safeguarding the rights and interests of individual States by means of some form of balance came only from the authors of the various peace projects produced during this period .
10 The initial drive for a single European market came largely from the Thatcher government following a major policy speech at Chatham House in March 1984 by Sir Geoffrey Howe , the then Foreign Secretary .
11 She was hopeful that he would enjoy reading Dora 's Dolls ' House to her after tea , when she came downstairs from the nursery .
12 Philip came away from the door and looked at the paper too .
13 But as those boxing her in came away from the rails at the entrance to the home stretch she found a good run up the inside , and when Teleprompter ran out of stamina with just over a furlong to go Pat Eddery shot the favourite into the lead and made for the wire .
14 The race was really on now , and as the quartet came away from the third last and turned into the straight Desert Orchid suddenly had a fight on his hands — not from Ten of Spades , who had exhausted himself in drawing the grey 's sting and now fell heavily at the second last , but from Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin .
15 In the end I went along and scraped a pass , largely to avoid the horrendous scenes with my parents that would ensue if I came away from the temple of learning empty-handed .
16 When we came away from the chapel I asked the boys if they were pleased that they had all gone to say goodbye to their grandpa .
17 He came away from the Old Entrance , having collected those of the destroyer 's crew not taken off by ML 6 , and as Micky Wynn came up with his special MTB , Robert Ryder told him to fire the torpedoes at the outer lock gate in the Old Entrance .
18 In the hotel lobby , Bodie came away from the desk and spoke briefly to Cowley .
19 ‘ I was pretty saddened when I came away from the doctors .
20 ‘ He asked the senior players if they 'd seen anything as they came away from the dressing-room and they said they had n't .
21 Backley , who came away from the throwing area clutching an icepack under his right elbow ‘ as a precaution ’ , was fifth best of the 12 qualifiers .
22 It came away from the wall and he had to grab on to a crate to stop himself overbalancing .
23 Buttons landed perfectly and came away from the jump so well that by the time her father had collected himself and his horse Artemis and Buttons were alongside them .
24 She came away from the window and stood in front of me .
25 " What 's the matter , James ? " he asked as I came away from the phone .
26 I came away from the Oxford seminar with a clear idea in my mind about what I should do to stimulate discussion on this subject in Wales .
27 He came away from the lawyer 's office with the keys of the house in his pocket .
28 Isabel started to run towards him just as another block of stone came away from the wall , hurtling downwards .
29 Curtailed in his researches he may have been , but Gould still came away from the parched furnace of the scrubs with some of the rarest novelties yet of his collection and a vast number of specimens of every description .
30 As it came away from the cold flesh , so she cut it into strips , and she wrapped each strip of skin around a piece of bone .
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