Example sentences of "came from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lightning flashed in a wild dance of death , and thunder came from every part of the huge sky . |
| 2 | and came from every pore in his body . |
| 3 | Shots came from every side of the stockade , hitting the wooden house , but the bullets did not get through the thick walls . |
| 4 | Letters and phone-calls of support also came from every corner of Britain . |
| 5 | Singer Colin Angus said : ‘ One letter came from a kid stuck in a shelter in Zagreb . |
| 6 | The Glyndyfrdwy Extension , two miles in length opened on Good Friday following a twelve month construction period , costing nearly £200,000 , much of which came from a consortium of the Wales Tourist Board , Welsh Development Agency , Clwyd and Glyndwr councils . |
| 7 | One comment came from a councillor on the Social Services Committee , Jim Haggerty : |
| 8 | Thomson came from a generation of American composers which had to find its own way without benefit of university patronage . |
| 9 | The people running the CEGB came from a generation who believed in the power of technology to solve problems , in motorways and in growth of consumption . |
| 10 | Hugh was scathing about any form of non-structuralist criticism , particularly if it came from a feminist — I should have thought you and he would have had absolutely nothing in common . |
| 11 | And if you came from a chapel and puritanical background of dark and moral mills where the only promised warmth was hell-fire , then — given the opportunity — you skidded all over the field like a jackpot rabbit . |
| 12 | The dull reflection came from a gold finger ring . |
| 13 | Proposals for qualitative improvement in new dwellings came from a committee set up by the Local Government Board ; chaired by Sir John Tudor Walters , an MP and Director of the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust , it dealt with matters relating to building construction and the provision of dwellings for the working class . |
| 14 | These somewhat standard indictments nevertheless came from a scholar who had grown up in the York school under Archbishop Ecgberht and gained maturity in the household of Archbishop Aethelberht as master of the school until he joined the court of Charlemagne in the early 780s . |
| 15 | Some of the stimulus for this came from a survey of senior medical students , yet when 30 current house officers were consulted all but two said that , though they would be happy to have the opportunity to apply for both jobs at one hospital , they would not have applied for a one year block contract that restricted them to one hospital . |
| 16 | There was a faint buzzing then a voice — tinny and distorted — came from a speaker beside the camera . |
| 17 | The only light came from a street-lamp . |
| 18 | They came from a poem about the founding of Rome . |
| 19 | This insight came from a cab-driver : |
| 20 | In Japan the stimulus for the building of the first railway line came from a famine in 1869 . |
| 21 | This ‘ hurt the feelings of the Chinese people ’ ; worse , it came from a man China considers ‘ an old friend ’ . |
| 22 | This came from a man standing behind the shrill woman . |
| 23 | This time the interruption came from a man in the front row of the audience , a tall man who was leaning forward , and George looked at him , feeling less hostility than the woman who had shouted at him earlier had created ; and then he realized it was because he spoke in an educated voice . |
| 24 | The last evidence of the day came from a man called Povey , a coalman , who said that between 5.05 and 5.25 , he had seen a man who he identified as Drew , drunk as a sack in Broad Street ( adjacent to Cross Street ) . |
| 25 | The sound that had made O look up came from a man who was sitting on the floor , leaning against the wall of the tunnel , looking not much like a beggar , but just someone worn out ; perhaps he had collapsed there and was resting . |
| 26 | The first came from a man in the front row , a crumpled , resilient-looking individual with the look of someone who has been dropped on his head from a great height at some stage in his life . |
| 27 | The autumn design is composed of some brown fern-like leaves that came from a tree at the bottom of my garden , some tiny pieces of Japanese maple , some elderflower buds , gorse flowers , a few tagetes , some hydrangea florets and some ‘ Red Ace ’ potentillas . |
| 28 | Not surprisingly the impetus for what became the National Council of Evangelical Free Churches ( normally called the National Free Church Council ) came from a Congregationalist , J. Guinness Rogers . |
| 29 | He had been well educated , and came from a home where much love was shown , but alone in the darkness he imagined a thousand evil eyes upon him , and his one instinct was to blast away with his gun with murder in his heart . |
| 30 | He would not have liked to guess her age , had never seen her in anything other than half-light , and knew nothing about her beyond the fact that she came from a village to the north which she had told him , stood in the shadow of the pyramid of Saqqara . |