Example sentences of "they had come from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nina tugged Anne back , towards the way they had come from . |
| 2 | The old man had been a seaman , and they had come from Chatham seeking a relative who had once lived next door , but who they found had moved . |
| 3 | The competition was to take place in August and , although she was for ever panicking about what they still could n't do , she tended to overlook how far they had come from first beginnings . |
| 4 | They eventually learned to speak English and explained they had come from St Martin 's Land , a twilit , subterranean place . |
| 5 | While servitors were bringing food and wine , the visitors accounted for themselves , where they had come from and what had transpired , the situation at Berwick and over on the West March . |
| 6 | They had come from Italy . |
| 7 | Puzzled , I finally twigged where they had come from : the synthetic rock — supposedly safe — that I had decorated the tank with . |
| 8 | I thought — I mean , I thought they had come from Stuart . |
| 9 | In between the various tests there was a delay of two or three days when we would be left on tenterhooks in case we had failed ; every afternoon people would be told to pack their bags and would be deposited at Aubagne station to take a train back to where they had come from . |
| 10 | Originally they had come from the Dartmoor Pony Sale as weanlings the previous autumn and had spent the winter in a large stable . |
| 11 | I knew so little about who had held them and how they had got out , it seemed as if they had come from a different world , a different time . |
| 12 | I had enquiries made as to the origins of the zombis , but no one knew where they had come from . |
| 13 | Someone stepped on a loose plank in the alley down which they had come from the bridge , and the timber squealed . |
| 14 | Probably she would have a good few stories to tell about the world they had come from . |
| 15 | The Pole Star and the Southern Cross gave early sailors some idea of where they had come from and the direction they needed to take . |
| 16 | This time in the hotels I particularly noticed how many people of different tongues were also staying there — all babbling away and making me wonder who they were and where they had come from . |
| 17 | They were not very loud , like the crack of a fairground rifle , and they had come from behind him , from the playground . |
| 18 | On the carpet by the tallboy were several red carnations , as fresh as they had come from the florist , and beside them , a shattered glass spill . |
| 19 | He loitered , untroubled but curious , for they were no small company , and by the line of their march they had come from Ruthyn . |
| 20 | She did n't know how far they had come from Gloucester , but surely after an hour at a steady gallop they had put enough distance between themselves and the castle to halt for a few minutes . |
| 21 | They had come from the Murray . |
| 22 | If they had come from any other man or woman in the kingdom of Scotland , they would have been considered treasonable ; writing to her brother Henry , Margaret made constant pleas for the English to send troops into Scotland to restore her as Regent and crush any opposition to her and the Earl of Angus . |
| 23 | Whatever information they had came from such second-hand reports as they were bound to pick up either in Marseilles or in Italy or in the Balkans , without having to visit the country for themselves . |
| 24 | Mind you , a lot of them had come from the army and from the navy — but I do n't think that makes man 's nature alter to that effect . |