Example sentences of "[noun] had come [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Scots had come over from Ireland and colonised most of Galloway , Kintyre and Arran . |
| 2 | Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty . |
| 3 | Everyone knew the story of how old man Reynolds had come up from nothing to be a landowner . |
| 4 | Ray had come in from the country bank and we sat with Margaret through the short service . |
| 5 | Said his friend-cum-mentor , Irving Layton , in looking back over the period , ‘ I had a very sharp feeling in the early fifties that poetry in Canada had come in from the cold and was starting to gain momentum . ’ |
| 6 | Louis had come up from the saloon . |
| 7 | A lot of flood water had come down from the upper reaches of the Cherwell , and a body placed in the river , say , at Lonsdale Road … |
| 8 | AS THE deadline approached for this quarter 's issue of Wood News , there was a certain amount of nervousness at John Wood House , since only a few stories had come through from our new network of Correspondents . |
| 9 | On the eve of her sailing , she learned from a spokeswoman of the Queen 's that news had come in from Cyprus : that Diniz Vasquez her husband 's young kinsman was trapped in Famagusta . |
| 10 | The train had come in from the sidings and stood in the station , warm and pulsing , its engines reattached , the horses and grooms on board and fresh foods and ice loaded . |
| 11 | ‘ They seemed convinced a whole lot of people had come up from the big city to show off , to be grandees , which was far from the truth . |
| 12 | On Friday night , Tina phoned just after Jack had come back from the supermarket with the weekend shopping . |
| 13 | Peter had come back from hospital in his own but in tearing good spirits . |
| 14 | The British army had come back from Dunkirk with nothing but its rifles . |
| 15 | And a few seconds ago an urgent message had come through from GCHQ at Cheltenham . |
| 16 | But one of them is a copy-editor , I think that is what he is called , and he told me that he thought the item had come in from a friend of Leila 's . ’ |
| 17 | Either a spark had come down from the old fellow 's hole up there or him with hobnail boots had trod on er black powder and set it off and his hole went out underneath his feet . |
| 18 | Eye-witness Maureen Darwin , who was waiting to board one of the US-bound jumbos , said : ‘ It was as if a giant unseen hand had come down from the heavens and just lifted the planes up and across the tarmac . |
| 19 | When Cardiff had come back from the dead , he had shrunk away back down the hessian-screen corridor towards Rohmer . |
| 20 | The Kleibers had come over from Germany some years before the war , and settled in Poplar . |
| 21 | McFarlane had come back from London in December 1985 disgusted with the bartering , repelled by Ghorbanifar and wanting to abandon the operation . |
| 22 | Kalchu 's younger brother had come over from his neighbouring hut and the two men sat spinning , talking and looking after the small children until their wives returned . |
| 23 | Against the black walls there were of course changes in fashion , changes of music , changes in drink ; for instance for a couple of years you could get little liqueur glasses of violently alcoholic black coffee with pyramids of whipped cream on top after one of the barstaff had come back from an affair with a real sailor ( or so he said anyway ) in some German port , Germany somewhere . |
| 24 | Her spirits had come down from the heights to the abyss . |
| 25 | Our older son had come over from San Francisco with his wife and the three children , so they were all here . |