Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where I come from , if we see a pigeon we throw a stone at it . |
| 2 | ‘ Where I come from it 's tougher country than this . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ And where I come from , ’ he told her , ‘ it 's soft and beautiful . |
| 4 | Now ‘ Bordah ’ , though so pronounced refers to Border , one of South Africa 's smallest sports provinces , where I come from , on the south-eastern coast , covering the area of the Cape Province 's border with Natal . |
| 5 | Where I come from , erm most of the the the fish , the fishing part of the community , up until just two , three years ago we had a tradition of women 's working practices which were handed down for hundreds of years from the female side . |
| 6 | Where I come from , we were taught to prefer the best of everything . |
| 7 | " The American South where I come from is mighty proud of its good manners , messieurs , " said the senator , flashing them a smile of exaggerated charm . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's called democracy where I come from . |
| 9 | ‘ Where I come from there is always a war going on somewhere or other . |
| 10 | ‘ Where I come from , it 's normal . |
| 11 | They do n't forget so easily where I come from . |
| 12 | She looks at me sometimes and gives sad little sighs , bewildered smiles , as though she really is n't quite sure where I come from . |
| 13 | Today , in my constituency of Brecon and Radnor , where my father came from and where I come from , unemployment has doubled in the past 15 months . |
| 14 | ‘ Where I come from is chock-a-block with perfectly useful and agreeable people who happen to be old . ’ |
| 15 | I am very positive in my views , and where I come from . |
| 16 | erm in the days when they had terraced houses back to back terraced houses erm well anywhere in the country I guess but but where I come from it was fine for the people who lived with their doors on the on the road but the people who lived at the other side of the block they could n't get from the road so every so often down the down the terrace they had a little alley way an entry I think you 'd probably call it in Scotland , do n't they ? |
| 17 | It is a lot quieter here than Derby , where I come from . |
| 18 | Those words are n't used where I come from . |
| 19 | no Arthur that 's how we made it where I come from |
| 20 | Where she come from ? |
| 21 | IN Britain it 's more your style or where you come from or your haircut , whether you like The Stone Roses or whether you think such-a-body is shit . |
| 22 | ‘ We do n't known what you are and where you come from . |
| 23 | ‘ It must be very different where you come from , ’ Lady Grubb said enigmatically to Len , who came from Putney . |
| 24 | You 're no American , but what else do you call these black folks where you come from ? ’ |
| 25 | Well that was fourteen minutes so you 've got fifteen minutes to ask questions of John , and it would help , I think , if you want to ask a question , to stand up and say who you are and where you come from , which constituency . |
| 26 | Maybe it 's different where you come from . |
| 27 | No not really — they just sit down and they listen to me and they 'll say something — " Brenda where you come from ? " [ laughs ] somefin' like that , you know what I mean , cause I 'm born English so they aks me what I want to speak Patois for ? |
| 28 | where you come from as well . |
| 29 | Where you come from can sell just about anything in the home counties . |
| 30 | ‘ It is n't always easy but it 's those hard patches where you come together . |