Example sentences of "[be] from another [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very often these women are from another country . |
| 2 | He claims much of the transripts already published are from another tape recorded by a woman in Oxford . |
| 3 | She had not slept with Ivan , nor ever would , but was deriving a secret satisfaction from the knowledge that present at her party that night would be all the men with whom she had ever slept : or all save one , and he had been from another country , and she had not known his name . |
| 4 | They think my Yorkshire accent is amusing , and Nicola , my boss , tells friends that I 'm ‘ from the country ’ , which makes me feel as if I 'm from another planet . |
| 5 | Armstrong was too clichéd to be a student vehicle these days , unless it was a London-based medical student ; they are well-known to be from another planet ten years behind the times . |
| 6 | suburban commander and he 's supposed to be from another planet or something or other |
| 7 | He released her , his fingers still loosely in the escaped strands of her hair , staring at her as blankly as if she were some phantom being from another incarnation , a mythical seductress beamed unexpectedly into the passenger seat of his car . |
| 8 | Wayne 's going-out stuff , all hung over the back of his one upright chair , had the definite air of being from another world altogether . |
| 9 | He had time to have a word with everyone and on the occasions when I met him in England he was more than helpful — unlike some of his colleagues in the Press room who pestered you for information when at Leopardstown , then pretended you were from another planet when you went to a big meeting in England . |
| 10 | About two years ago , he 's from my old sch er he 's from another school I mean he 's from , not from this school . |
| 11 | Erm the problem being that if , if erm if it is from another parish erm the priests in that parish can really be very slow in erm supplying you with erm a copy of it . |
| 12 | ‘ Supplies have n't gone into the shops yet so the person who sent the knives to you and Tavett almost certainly bought them from the market , unless it was from another man in another pub . ’ |
| 13 | That lightness of his , each step as though he might take off altogether ! — and then , how he stood there , at the foot of the stairs , straight and slender ; you 'd think he was from another world , he was so pale and fine , with his glistening cropped hair … but he was scowling most horribly . |
| 14 | Little Nemo was from another world when comics were gentle , escapist entertainment . |
| 15 | And the fellow who told her that he was from another planet . |
| 16 | One of my boyfriends said that it 's as if I was from another planet . |