Example sentences of "[conj] he come [adv] from " in BNC.

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1 His name implies that he came originally from Upper or Lower Brailes ( Warwickshire ) , near Shipston-on-Stour .
2 He is 33 , he appears unstoppable , and he is perfectly aware that he came back from the grave .
3 What really sets Mr Thaksin apart is that he comes not from southern China but from Chiang Mai in northern Thailand .
4 I 've just had this new hoover bought me for Christmas , and he comes home from work and I say it only took me five minutes to do the stairs , and all this sort of thing , because it used to take so long before .
5 and he comes out from
6 I 'll leave dad 's until he comes home from the doctors !
7 Until he comes home from work .
8 Until he comes back from and that
9 Just to think of what he would say if he came home from a Council meeting and found an American soldier sitting in his parlour made Carrie 's stomach shrivel .
10 If she put an ashtray in the wrong place , she 'd get beaten up ; if she never put his paper in the right place , she 'd get beaten up ; if he came in from work and his dinner was n't on the table , she 'd get beaten up .
11 If he won here too , if he came back from Barashevo without a stain of the shit and slime of this place on his tailored khaki uniform then the road upwards and onwards was clear to him .
12 because if he comes in from school he knows he 's got half an hours work
13 He has an awful thirst since he come back from serving in Egypt .
14 Since he came home from the war , he ca n't get any work , see ?
15 Personally , I would mind , as Gary has been crap since he came back from injury .
16 ‘ That since he came back from Australia he 's been living with his mother . ’
17 Bob Sillitoe says that since he came back from Kilimanjaro he 's been looking for something else … another challenge … the climbing has given his son a great sense of confidence
18 The second suspect was a resident of Consett , but on the night in question his wife had given birth to their first child , and the doctor and the midwife both vouched for the fact that the man had never left the house after he came in from work at half-past five until he went to work the next morning , an hour after he had heard his son first cry .
19 He went , finally , on a beautiful September day in 1949 , some three months after he came down from Oxford .
20 He said that after he came back from Margaret 's funeral , to which she did n't go , she seemed quite stunned and sat staring in front of her , and saying ‘ I 've lost my man ’ , over and over again .
21 I have known Basil for about thirty years , I knew him shortly after he came back from Vienna .
22 Elliott Gabellah , vice president of the Rhodesian ANC , met us the day after he came back from the independence celebrations .
23 John got the ticket in a bucket shop the day after he came back from China .
24 From a letter written so that I could read it to Basil before he came home from hospital :
25 Former England skipper Wilkins , who partnered a young Durrant in midfield for a season , championed the youngster 's cause long before he came back from injury .
26 When he came here from Russia , he was penniless , which is why he became a doorman at the Ritz .
27 He said he felt no pain , apart from injections which he has never been fond of , and when he came round from the operation the first thing he asked for was the Ipswich football scores and a drink .
28 No need for secrets , so Mrs Files telephoned her daughter straight away , then told Frank Grimwood who came by with four brace of partridge from yesterday 's let shoot ; who stopped Alec on the tractor with a load of silage behind ; who met Tom in the grainstore ; who found Mary in the estate office when he went in to fill out his time sheet ; who confided in the postman when he came with the afternoon mail ; who amazed Mrs May in Forester 's Cottage when he delivered her Freeman 's Catalogue and a postcard from her son holidaying in Pouket ; who stunned her husband when he came in from the saw mill .
29 In fact , Sir Adrian had no preconceived ideas about the sort of career he would follow when he came down from Cambridge with a degree in economics .
30 He might have been listening to Moses when he came down from the mountain .
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