Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] come from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tammuz Malamute had literally come from nowhere . |
| 2 | Because we had all come from such different backgrounds , and were individuals bound together only by circumstance , I felt it was impossible to criticise their actions as I did n't fully understand their motivations . |
| 3 | Should anyone be foolish enough to don space armour and climb through the airlock , nothing whatever would be strictly visible — save for what had already come from the ordinary universe . |
| 4 | She was cruelly obsessed with class and if her children had not come from a background that she knew to be reliable she would certainly have ignored them as she ignored the au-pair girls . |
| 5 | Also for most of the time at this period in their affair Boy was either slightly drugged , or drunk , or exhausted ; and he was in a permanent state of sexual tension , for either he had just come from O's bed or he was on his way to it . |
| 6 | Word had just come from Ottawa , he told me , confirming his suggestion that I be promoted to the post of Production Manager for the CBC , as from the end of the month . |
| 7 | Her blonde curls looked as if she had just come from a hairdresser rather than from the hand basin in her own bedroom which was where she had washed her hair this morning . |
| 8 | They were country people in a sense that Melanie was not , although she had just come from the green fields and they might have lived in London all their lives . |
| 9 | When the ball finally reached him , the normally placid boy bared his teeth and , whirling the bat round his head , whacked the offending object back up to where it had just come from . |
| 10 | Skip was saying this to Bilou who had just come from grand-prix multihull racing in France . |
| 11 | It would be no good stroking their Adult , say , if the transaction had largely come from their Child . |
| 12 | Secondees had usually come from supportive school staff groups . |
| 13 | I do n't really know why I always went unless it was to remind myself that I too had once come from some other world than the one in which I lived . |
| 14 | Objections to the application for planning permission had also come from the Western Regional Fisheries Board and Westport Tourism as well as several individuals . |
| 15 | Caroline had also come from Bideford . |
| 16 | The Druze had originally come from Egypt . |
| 17 | Under the Sunni Muslim Ottoman Empire in Syria , they were treated with contempt , abandoned to the poverty of the hill villages in southern Lebanon where they had originally come from Mount Lebanon . |
| 18 | Two years after the secession , Robert of Stratford , the Chancellor of England and Oxford , wrote to Cambridge University with the sobering thought that and until 1854 , Oxford made students swear an oath They even took the Brazenose gate knocker to Oxford in 189O under the impression that it had originally come from Oxford . |
| 19 | The Davises had originally come from Grenada and the Carlsons had got to know them because their eldest child and Daryl had been friends at school . |
| 20 | Ermentrude 's father had originally come from the Worms area , but he had made his career , thanks to imperial favour , in the west . |
| 21 | The suggestion of hiring a car had almost come from these two ; it had been their talk of the small towns , the cedar woods , the mountains , which had fascinated Dan so much . |
| 22 | It took much will-power for the man to drag himself away , presently , on one of Dunbar 's best horses , but consoled and heartened by receiving the best kiss , on parting , that had yet come from Mariot Randolph . |
| 23 | I did not venture to express my opinion , fearing that my taste might have become corrupted by my long residence in the Indies ; but since my companion had recently come from France , it was quite a relief to hear him say that he had seen nothing in Europe quite so bold and majestic . ’ |
| 24 | The noise had definitely come from outside . |
| 25 | Firstly , how could she be sure that note had actually come from Rohan ? |
| 26 | I just wonder when Mr asks for other figures from the independent sector what would have happened if the figures that you 've got before you today had actually come from the private sector . |