Example sentences of "he came [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came forward from behind his desk and held out his hand as if this were a first meeting . |
| 2 | When he came here from Russia , he was penniless , which is why he became a doorman at the Ritz . |
| 3 | He came away from the Old Entrance , having collected those of the destroyer 's crew not taken off by ML 6 , and as Micky Wynn came up with his special MTB , Robert Ryder told him to fire the torpedoes at the outer lock gate in the Old Entrance . |
| 4 | He came away from the lawyer 's office with the keys of the house in his pocket . |
| 5 | Mr Samways said he came away from the forum feeling angry and frustrated . |
| 6 | You see , you take Mr , splendid policeman , he came straight from the Guards into lodgings in Ipswich . |
| 7 | He came home from a night 's fishing with the news that King George V was having a review of the British fleet , and would sail through the Channel to Chatham at the head of his Navy , leading them in a dreadnought . |
| 8 | Molly remembered the day he came home from the war . |
| 9 | He came home from school some days later and said he had been ‘ thinking very seriously about our situation ’ — he was already beginning to be pompous — and that it was quite obvious that some women were unsuited to a life which held nothing but home and children . |
| 10 | She was very excited by the stickers and would tell her father when he came home from work . |
| 11 | Her husband Harold was a lamplighter and when he came home from work he was obliged to take off his boots in the passage and place them on a sheet of newspaper before entering the inner sanctum . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | From a letter written so that I could read it to Basil before he came home from hospital : |
| 14 | She had been giddy in the mornings and tired at night ; her breasts felt different , she had been sleeping badly , dreaming dreams , longing all day for Tristram to come and take her in his arms and love her , when instead she had had to be content with no more than a covert glance from him when he came home from Knollys 's yard in the evenings , or a touch of his ankle under the table at supper time . |
| 15 | Since he came home from the war , he ca n't get any work , see ? |
| 16 | He came home from the July meeting at Newmarket in 1904 and set men on the following week . |
| 17 | ‘ She hurt him dreadfully when he came home from Africa , crippled and his career in the army over , just when he needed her loving support the most , and now she has the gall to chase him again , when I hoped and prayed that he had finally recovered from her brutal treatment of him . ’ |
| 18 | When he came home from college she 'd be reading The Catholic Mind . |
| 19 | I do n't know I have n't looked at the invitation , he just told me when he came home from school he 'd got a party . |
| 20 | Yep , he came , he came home from comes about |
| 21 | it was fine , I thought right get up and get them bloody curtains washed , I had 'em on the line , but do you think our Mike noticed them , well when he came home from work , because I thought of having to put 'em back up again , I just |
| 22 | erm I do n't have a relative in the Gulf erm but I for my own peace of mind , I wanted to keep up to date with things that were going on erm and also for my husband really , he is at out at work all day and I , you know it was nice when he came home from work for me to be able to tell him exactly what went on . |
| 23 | His name implies that he came originally from Upper or Lower Brailes ( Warwickshire ) , near Shipston-on-Stour . |
| 24 | He came now from his haut-bourgeois voilla in Basel , the banking capital of Switzerland and he was frightened by the forces that the uprising in Iran had unleashed . |