Example sentences of "come [adv] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Come down from the ceiling . |
2 | Some of the older blokes , they come out , and they started fighting as well ! ( laughter ) One bloke come down from the flats with just a pair of trousers and a vest on and he started having a go ! |
3 | ‘ It 's not very often that I come down from the pulpit but I feel this would be a genuinely worthwhile exercise , ’ he said . |
4 | ‘ We had a Greyhound come down from the moor once . |
5 | Spider monkeys originate from South America and rarely come down from the trees in their wild state . |
6 | Then , there 's never been a shortage of contributions for London 's musical guidebook ; have all helped to flesh out its pages , along with ‘ Kings Cross ’ , a song that the Pet Shop Boys wrote ( a ) ‘ Because it 's the London terminus you reach if you come down from the North-East ’ ; ( b ) Chris Lowe lived there ; and ( c ) ‘ It seemed like a good title about people waiting . |
7 | Only now has she come in from the cold with her eleventh book being published by Collins ( at £10.95 ) . |
8 | The material , long hidden in KGB files or in the memories of intelligence operatives , is up for grabs as ageing ex-KGB agents come in from the cold to trade in their undercover pasts for over-the-counter assets . |
9 | If an inner-city supplies free art galleries , financed out of taxes on inner-city inhabitants , the rich still come in from the suburbs to make use of these facilities . |
10 | I suppose I thought she 'd either be fantastically frosty and sit on one of those little gilt chairs with a fancy gilt mirror behind her , or else be quite fat and red-faced and come in from the stove holding a wooden spoon and give me a huge embrace smelling of garlic and stockpot . |
11 | And we used to have one gentleman come in from the country . |
12 | Come in from the port end and take a note of the countdown time as you pass the buoy . |
13 | Ten o'clock — we come in from the park and then write up what we saw and do a project on it . |
14 | One example of this is on page 156 when Scout and Jem have discovered that Atticus is sitting outside the county Jail on one of his office chairs and as they cross the square to get nearer to him , four dusty cars come in from the Meridian highway , moving slowly in a line eventually stopping outside the Jail . |
15 | This is a peculiarly steep region , so much so in fact that the snow finds it more than usually difficult to stay where it has fallen ; there have been some sadly famous avalanches near Luz , the hamlets of Chéze and Saligos which you pass as you come in from the north both having been smothered and destroyed in their time . |
16 | Everyone is happy to jump-to and work hard on a new factory opening or a big product launch , but they are not so eager to rush off and fulfil the everyday requests which come in from the media . |
17 | So you come up behind it so that your body and the striker 's ball , that being your red ball and the other ball , the object ball are always the same straight line I mean it does n't matter whether you come in from the side you 're walking up to it in a straight line put your mallet down , swing it through . |
18 | ‘ Normally when people come in from the outside into the securities business they leave management alone . |
19 | They saw the man come in from the street and stand for a moment adjusting to the darkness . |
20 | So why not bluff and come in from the left ? |
21 | 4 Some reflex actions have to be learnt such as tying a shoe lace , chewing a pencil under stress and biting nails , but others come naturally from the moment we are born like digestion , breathing and jerking our big toe out of the bath water when we have forgotten to turn the cold tap on . |
22 | ‘ Come away from the door ! |
23 | er er come away from the Battle of , |
24 | ‘ Come away from the window , Kaptan . ’ |
25 | Of course you may specify a time : ‘ Come away from the edge of the platform immediately ! ’ , |
26 | come away from the foxes please . |
27 | If anyone had been paying any attention , they would have seen the drooping head suddenly lift , the hands come away from the mouth , and the strained facial muscles relax . |
28 | I come away from the courthouse , brushing slowly through the streets , gazing at Liberty 's and the Haunch of Venison Avenue . |
29 | For example : You see like , the parents who come over from the West Indies , they try and teach their children this attitude " you 're English , you was born here , so you must talk the right and proper way , so you must n't talk like that " , but then after a time , as you get older , they do n't really worry about it too much . |
30 | Boats come over from the mainland about three times a day and in total we get about 9000 visitors a year , including 2000 schoolchildren . |