Example sentences of "where the [noun] have [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't know where the question had come from . |
| 2 | ‘ You gave her roses , ’ she whispered , hardly knowing where the thought had come from . |
| 3 | He wondered where the boy had come from . |
| 4 | Yet Leicestershire also has many parishes where the village has disappeared from the landscape , leaving perhaps only the manor house or squire 's hall and sometimes a forlorn and decaying church . |
| 5 | Nigel explained later that the bridge was where the water had descended from the millpond onto the wheel , which sadly was no more . |
| 6 | Now , watching his grinning monkey face as he swung , arm over arm , the frantic twisting of his body , the silver of the delicate ribcage under the pale flesh where the jacket had parted from his jeans , she felt a surge of love so painful that it was like a thrust to the heart . |
| 7 | At Maidstone , where the company had moved from Reading , a maid-servant had seen Drew frantically trying to remove a stain from his jacket ; the operation had taken half an hour . |
| 8 | There are all sorts of people involved and the various underground factions , that maybe that one has , er as , probably as an afterthought er considered that , that maybe money in the release of any Western hostages , that may be where the story has come from , but certainly from the informed sources , and the , the , er certainly on the evidence of past hostages releases , er we would n't really have expected that er ransom would be demanded , obviously we have to wait and see when er , when the hostages are set free . |
| 9 | No one knew where the money had come from . |
| 10 | Those of us in public life are aware that , whenever complaints of poor service come before us , there are always Labout Members who will blame either the absence of public funds , although they never make any reference to where the money has to come from , or the Government . |
| 11 | Daly won his bet — and the answer to the first quiz was where the word had come from . |
| 12 | Isabel felt herself blushing , but either fitzAlan took pity on her or his arm was hurting too much , for he made no comment on where the bandage had come from . |
| 13 | You know they joined it right at the beginning , they , they 're the ones where the momentum 's come from erm they 're the ones asking the rich peasants to join them , the middle peasants and they 're the ones leading the revolution , th they are the riff-raff if you , you know , want to take one view erm they have n't got anything to lose because of their position er er er er as erm a rich peasant may say , you know , what is there to keep me from joining yo you people have neither tile over your heads nor speck of land under your feet , and it 's true they have got nothing to lose but these are the ones that are pushing the ideas forward and forming the associations . |
| 14 | We drove out of the city on the now four-laned highway , passing the airport and driving over the bridge where I silently saluted the ancient tower standing in the tide-water below , the place where the Sheikha had fallen from her camel . |
| 15 | The former Coleraine and Portadown midfielder refuses to divulge where the enquiries have come from . |
| 16 | And in Bardera , where the population has swelled from 10,000 to 60,000 as the hungry arrive in search of food , huge sacks of maize and cereal are reaching thousands more . |
| 17 | At the time , the proposal was plausible although , of course , it still ducked the issue of where the spores had come from in the first place . |
| 18 | As you might guess , we searched the area where the guinea had come from very carefully but , alas , no more were to be found . |
| 19 | What happened to a trust where the property had passed from the trustee to a third party is a matter for the next section . |
| 20 | The inner side of the track was almost sheer at this point , brown broken rock glistening with water , and I could see at a glance where the rock had come from , a gaping hole oozing mud as though a giant molar had been extracted . |
| 21 | We ran through the dark towards the place where the cries had come from . |
| 22 | Write some short notes about where the stones have come from and how they have got their particular markings and colour . |
| 23 | Much later , it seemed , she awoke and when she turned over and looked towards where the chanting had come from the African men and women had eaten and were packing away and decamping . |
| 24 | She wormed her way under the fence where the wire had burst from its pegs . |
| 25 | I did n't press him on the question of where the design had originated from , for his ready answer was ‘ off the top of my uncle 's head ’ . |
| 26 | There was nothing visible downstairs where we were , so immediately went up the stairs at the side to the production level where the blast had come from , and there we met a group of people who had just come out of the control room and they were cut and suffering from shock 'cos the blast had obviously well it d nearly blown the control room apart . |
| 27 | That is um when sexually transmitted diseases turned up in children , well it must be towels , it must be toilets , it must be clothes , bed linen erm , this is where the infection 's come from apparently . |
| 28 | That 's where the chalk had come from . |