Example sentences of "name comes [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their family name comes from the Malay tupai , meaning small , squirrel-like animal . |
| 2 | Michael Degnan , 30 years in Bishop Auckland , strutted the theory last weekend shared by Arthur , Squeak and a few others of the Cumberland 's Friday night faithful that the name comes from the cockfighting pit that once was out the back . |
| 3 | The name comes from the Hindustani word nil meaning blue and the Persian word for cow , gau . |
| 4 | It is not a tuck stitch at all , but the name comes from the same term used in dressmaking , where woven fabric is stitched , or tucked , into ridges that look much like this fabric . |
| 5 | The name comes from the old Norse word meaning ‘ to gush ’ and was not only given to the township nearby , but got into the English language as a descriptive name for any jet of water . |
| 6 | The name comes from the Greek hippos ( horse ) . |