Example sentences of "[pers pn] come [adv] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I was pretty saddened when I came away from the doctors . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | " What 's the matter , James ? " he asked as I came away from the phone . |
| 5 | I came away from the workshop with ideas for introducing total quality into education , plus curiosity about the practicality of BS 5750 procedures in a school . |
| 6 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 7 | When I came round from the chloroform I was in bed . |
| 8 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 9 | ‘ I came straight from the shop . |
| 10 | On Saturday 4 June , I came in from a morning 's canvassing in Sutton Coldfield to find an urgent message to call Conservative Central Office . |
| 11 | Then , in the afternoon , I came in from the garden and found her in an armchair , engrossed in a thick , glossy-looking book . |
| 12 | I came back from a business trip to find her gone . ’ |
| 13 | Yes , if we skip all the intermediate years with , after the war I came back from the army to find we 'd been bombed out and were living in requisition accommodation , after a time , the , we were moved into a new flat over some shops . |
| 14 | When I came back from the bathroom , I looked at my watch . |
| 15 | Oh yes well I mean , I , I , I came back from the war |
| 16 | ‘ When I came back from the war , we still had rationing for a few years . |
| 17 | I felt further away from him than I had ever felt , even when I came back from the hospital . |
| 18 | I came back from the Oval to find that Buffy had blown his brains out because his father had refused to pay his gambling debts . |
| 19 | I came home from the hospital one day to find Johnnie all alone and desperate for physio , lying on the sitting-room floor crying his eyes out and starving hungry . |
| 20 | I come away from the courthouse , brushing slowly through the streets , gazing at Liberty 's and the Haunch of Venison Avenue . |
| 21 | ‘ Could we meet downstairs later , after I come back from the course ? ’ |
| 22 | I tell you what I 'll speak to you when I come back from the chippie yeah |
| 23 | When I come home from the river with that heavy basin of wet laundry on my head , my knees begin to shake , and sometimes I lose my balance and fall right on my face . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's not very often that I come down from the pulpit but I feel this would be a genuinely worthwhile exercise , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
| 26 | A good many boys and girls had joined the crowd now and shouts of laughter broke out as a few of them came out from the gate in the kitchen-garden wall , their hands full of ripe peaches , their chins dripping with juice . |
| 27 | ‘ Now that I know your ghost I do n't even have to wait for you to come home from the sea . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Did erm did you notice any great differences when you came back from the war ? |
| 30 | What erm what kind of employment did you find when you came back from the war ? |