Example sentences of "[subord] i [be] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last , the visitor interrupts Paul 's conversation and comes to the point : ‘ You , I believe , have guessed where I 'm from . ’ |
| 2 | Where I 'm from , I should n't have to worry about a black cop beating me upside the head when he 's with his white partner , you know , and that happens a lot . ’ |
| 3 | where I 'm from ? |
| 4 | Cunning — she could find out where I was from the town code . |
| 5 | He demanded twice , in an extremely hoarse voice , where I was from . |
| 6 | Anyway I said oh I said you 're not expecting me , said who I was and where I was from . |
| 7 | One of my boyfriends said that it 's as if I was from another planet . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | as if I 'm from Jamaica or whatever . |
| 10 | This is because I am from the planet Bzargl in galaxy E-220 , and arrived in your solar system in 1962 , disguised as a salesman for Rolls Razor . |
| 11 | I 'm fit to be Prime Minister because I truly represent the people of this country — their hopes for economic success and social justice , and their aspirations , because I 'm from them . |
| 12 | Because I 'm from a whole different generation . ’ |
| 13 | I was reminded of this , fresh as I was from reading some of the slanging that made the Bermondsey bye-election so appealing , when looking at a joint release from six trades unions . |
| 14 | Severed as I was from Father and from Helmut , living in a foreign country , was it the fear of further severance that kept me in this unequal concurrence ? |