Example sentences of "have come [adv prt] from [art] " in BNC.

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1 Here , black has come up from the streets and into the drawing room ; overleaf , neutral tones assert themselves .
2 Once a call has come through from the police the team initiates a ‘ cascade call ’ system where say , one person is responsible for telephoning six other team members .
3 How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " .
4 The other , Bath and England B star Audley Lumsden , is just lucky to have his chance , having come back from an horrific , career-threatening broken neck .
5 The doctor said the driver should have come round from the anaesthetic by now . ’
6 Some may even have come up from the West Highland Way which runs below Am Bodach in a secluded glen parallel to Loch Leven .
7 Otherwise whoever it was would probably have come in from the corridor .
8 That 's why I 've come over from the States , ’ Howard said .
9 Now on Green , now we go , we 've come along from the top of Street right along Road , the toy shop then you get to the Kings Arms and on the other side of the road there was another pub and I ca n't remember the name of it , then there was the fish shop and then the Liberal Club then the pork butchers you 'd think they were all full of meat .
10 The problem pupils who 've come back from the brink .
11 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 .
12 ‘ 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 .
13 Louis had come up from the saloon .
14 He had come up from the bottom and made it to the top : no one was to forget that he was at the top and everyone was supposed to forget where he had come from and how he had got where he was .
15 Last month PHILIP VANN looked at artists who had come up from the mines to become artists ; in this issue he concentrates on those artists who went down to the pit to paint
16 They were by now in Piccadilly Circus , which was as bright as day , and were surrounded by the crowds streaming from the theatres , cafés and dives which populated the area , painted ladies of a certain character being prominent among them — as well as the enthusiastic amateurs who had come up from the East End to make a few pennies , or even be given supper , as a price for their favours .
17 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 . ’
18 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 . ’
19 Ray had come in from the country bank and we sat with Margaret through the short service .
20 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 .
21 It was a relief when Stephen Copley , the Senior Chemist , arrived just before ten , bustling in as usual , his rubicund face with its tonsure and fringe of black curly hair glistening as if he had come in from the sun .
22 Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up .
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 Not surprisingly , the stars of the night series final were the player who had come back from the World Cup .
25 On Friday night , Tina phoned just after Jack had come back from the supermarket with the weekend shopping .
26 ‘ To us , he had come back from the dead , ’ his mother , Camilla Swann , said yesterday .
27 he had come back from the meeting with Patrick , and he had opened a bottle of whisky … automatically his had reached for it , found it between his legs , and he was raising it to his lips when the hurried knocking shook the door again .
28 Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty .
29 And that happened each day till Thursday and then , by then , you were delivering what had come back from the Monday , hoping that when you delivered , and collected the money of course , that you might get something else tt , which I were n't too bad a salesman really .
30 When Cardiff had come back from the dead , he had shrunk away back down the hessian-screen corridor towards Rohmer .
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