Example sentences of "[pron] have come [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I had come straight from college , it was really difficult for me to tolerate that sort of behaviour , so I managed to er convince the workers to form a union . |
| 2 | I had come down from London looking for a job . |
| 3 | I 've come straight from the hospital , and now I 'm on my way to St Mary 's , where I 'm due at five . |
| 4 | I 've come straight from the calving and I did n't even get a cup of tea when I 'd finished . |
| 5 | That 's why I 've come over from the States , ’ Howard said . |
| 6 | Do you know , I , I 've come I 've come away from Luton , Stansted at times , Cambridge especially when I 've come down , perhaps half a dozen dinners . |
| 7 | It 's the first time I 've come away from an exhibition thinking that the exhibition as such was stupid . |
| 8 | Sometimes when I 've come home from the pictures and I let myself in , it 's so quiet I 'd nearly talk to the statues for company . ’ |
| 9 | I have n't been in here since I 've come back from Devon |
| 10 | I have come straight from the event , and as your lordship sees , I have wasted no time in applying to you . ’ |
| 11 | One day Jesus said to his friends : I am the Bread of Life I am the living Bread which has come down from heaven Anyone who eats this bread Shall live for . |
| 12 | The whole operation has cost about £60 million , around half of which has come directly from central government . |
| 13 | So get in the old shed and then we got a load of swedes , we put it in rack and we come out like chips , chips of raw swede , and then sugar beet pulp , which had come back from the factory . |
| 14 | He wants me to have some tinned pears which have come in from South Africa . |
| 15 | It is significant that one of the few occasions when the author of Ancrene Wisse hints at the contemplative experience occurs in his account of the behaviour appropriate at the Mass : ( After the kiss of peace in the Mass , when the priest communicates , forget the world , be completely out of the body , and with burning love embrace your Beloved who has come down from heaven to your heart 's bower , and hold Him fast until He has granted you all that you ask . ) |
| 16 | Margery 's conversation with her husband when she has come home from the Exhibition |
| 17 | The problem pupils who 've come back from the brink . |
| 18 | ‘ You 've come lately from Winchester , my friend ? ’ fitzAlan enquired of the younger man . |
| 19 | She had come over from the east with her Arab mother , who , once in Britain , had married a stranger in order to stay — rather like buying a spare part to save one 's life . |
| 20 | She had come in from work one evening to find her mother and father dead in each other 's arms . |
| 21 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |
| 22 | She remembered that fated evening when she had come back from Wimbledon after seeing Hindley Foster . |
| 23 | Ever since that ghastly winter 's night when she had come back from Wimbledon and said she was pregnant . |
| 24 | When at last they lay quietly , her head resting on Luke 's shoulder , her hand spread against the damp warmth of his skin , Fran felt as though she had come back from some great journey that had shifted her conception and understanding of everything . |
| 25 | She had not travelled for pleasure since she had come home from her long sojourn and she had wiped out of her memory the simple delights of hot sun and cheap wine . |
| 26 | She had come home from school with Antonia . |
| 27 | At the end of the match Comte Ghislain de Vogüé of Moët et Chandon , who had come over from France especially for the match and the luncheon that preceded it ; and Viscountess Marchwood , wife of the managing director of Moët et Chandon UK , presented the Moët et Chandon prizes , and Miss Liz Kershaw the publisher of Harpers & Queen presented the Harpers & Queen trophy . |
| 28 | Falling under the spell of an older , flamboyantly dressed and well-educated kinsman , Esme Stuart , who had come over from France , he was suspected of dangerously Papist leanings and of some unnatural sexual habits . |
| 29 | I had already employed an attendant , Toril , who had come over from Norway at the end of July to help me during and after my move . |
| 30 | Everyone was wandering around the house getting everything ready for my uncle who had come over from Nigeria . |