Example sentences of "that [pers pn] was from " in BNC.
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| 1 | At home the attitude of my parents-in-law was that I was from outside Pakistan , so I must be very independent — although I never showed my independence . |
| 2 | Later , at the staff table , Sarah told Catriona and Patrice that she was from New York and that she and her mother were travelling around Europe . |
| 3 | ‘ The fact that she was from middle-class Dublin was obvious in that she was more strident than the farming kids from the south-east of Ireland . ’ |
| 4 | His second was that she was from the estate agent 's . |
| 5 | Rolle fingered his chest in consternation , trying to work out where this strange warmth had come from , but soon decided that it was from God , because it brought with it a flood of pleasurable and consoling emotion . |
| 6 | Lutyens 's family were brought up to believe that it was their father who invented Nanna , and that it was from their own night nursery window in Bloomsbury Square that Wendy and the boys flew with Peter Pan to the Neverland . |
| 7 | Just another wartime control tower , readers may think , but fans of the famed 1940s bandleader Glenn Miller will know that it was from Twinwoods , Beds , that Miller , then a Major in the USAAF and in charge of the American Band of the AEF , departed in a UC–64 Norseman on December 15 , 1944 for Paris — never to be seen again . |
| 8 | The sound came again and she understood then that it was from the interview room beyond his wall ; . |
| 9 | It is suggested that it was derived from the hauling of boats along the river and that it was from this place that manual hauling of boats along a tow path began , but in all fairness I think this can be discounted . |
| 10 | She 'd automatically assumed that it was from Ryan , only of course it was n't , and if she had been thinking rationally before she would have known it could n't possibly have been from him . |
| 11 | The G.W. condemned stock from all its depots , but as no name is quoted the assumption is that it was from Swindon . |
| 12 | I can only assume that it was from his previous experience as chairman of the Greater London council in 1985-86 that he learnt all about ’ getting your friends appointed to the key jobs ’ , and that that is why he assumes that the same is happening in the civil service now . |
| 13 | Harley thought that it was from 1694 that the Dissenters acted " against all their principles and the liberties of the nation " by adhering to the ministerial section of the Whig party . |
| 14 | There was a window open on the third floor , but marks consistent with the rubber-soled shoes he was wearing suggested that it was from the parapet in front of the four dormer windows in the roof . |
| 15 | I knew that one as soon as I saw that it was from that is was a reject one . |
| 16 | And the fellow who told her that he was from another planet . |
| 17 | She only knew his first name and that he was from somewhere near Luton , Beds . |
| 18 | I read in a magazine that he was from Scotland . ’ |
| 19 | Zen had told them he 'd been involved in a traffic accident , which had got a good laugh all round when it emerged that he was from Venice . |
| 20 | He was , I would say that he was from here , I would say he 's more in line with er Mrs lives , that 's the sort of back end of er Earls Court . |