Example sentences of "[pers pn] come from " in BNC.
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| 1 | they 'd like , like them to come from the floor and not from another from a committee member says , yeah I sponsor Billy , and another committee member says I |
| 2 | It 'll take all the for them to come from where they 're coming from . |
| 3 | The heading ‘ Letterman productions , Hollywood , London , paris ’ , with a movie camera logo , seems to me to come from a comic book , but it obviously reminds Mr Shah of his brief association with Ava Gardner , Clark Gable and John Ford . |
| 4 | That I wanted to come from school but they would n't all ow me to come from school because me father had signed for four years you see . |
| 5 | He felt the embarrassment himself sometimes , as all his friends were stony broke , and his came from his father , also . |
| 6 | Well , my first job came during four weeks of my last term at RADA when I had applied and been chosen for a television play called It 's Too Late to Talk to Billy which was set in Belfast — which is where I came from originally . |
| 7 | After eating the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron which he must have liked , he asked me where I came from . |
| 8 | I do n't come from an evangelical background , I came from a raw environment straight into the contentions of the Big Man and you could n't have been too extreme . |
| 9 | Since I came from Scotland she had expected me to be ‘ large , raw-boned and ‘ dower ’ [ i.e. dour ] ' . |
| 10 | You know , when I came from ’ — she thumbed towards the wall — next door , not more than half an hour ago , I was very sad inside . |
| 11 | ‘ Back where I came from . |
| 12 | I was having some of my aquatint plates of the Lake District steel-faced and when , in conversation with Mr. McQueen , he discovered that I came from this area , he recalled that in the past his forebears had printed for another artist from the Lakes . |
| 13 | ‘ I came from a poor family in the countryside and communism gave me a chance for a better life . |
| 14 | ‘ I wo n't get a fellow , I 'm from nowhere , a decent fellow would n't be able to talk about me and where I came from . |
| 15 | Now I go back to my home where I came from . |
| 16 | I had already negotiated my free transfer as part of the deal when I came from Celtic . ’ |
| 17 | I came from a pretty poorish background and now it 's nice to be able to give my parents money , and let them do things like go on holiday . |
| 18 | I came from the very opposite . |
| 19 | The President was amused , conceding that not much cricket or rugby was played in the United States , but as a sports fan himself he understood — especially as a Southerner , aware of the significance of sport in the Deep South , and of the fact that I came from an ever Deeper South than he did … |
| 20 | ‘ I nearly went back to where I came from . ’ |
| 21 | He laughed back when I told him that I came from a poor barrio in Britain and that we were no longer referred to as people either . |
| 22 | Well , he could remember , and he was n't afraid , for he could remember even now … and Kraal began to speak ‘ You asked me where I came from , Creggan , and I will tell you . |
| 23 | Whites who did n't know him , yet condemned him with borrowed certainty as someone who had little interest in cricket beyond its utility as a stick to beat the apartheid policy with , were typical of the society I came from . |
| 24 | I came from m my from , across the hill with my father when I was sixteen , at night . |
| 25 | Where I came from no one spoke of such things . |
| 26 | After a bit , he said , he would want to know where I came from and all . |
| 27 | In my own section , towards the middle of the cloakroom , I saw to my horror two lines of girls staring at me and giggling , and as I came near , one of them asked in a sarcastic voice where I came from . |
| 28 | " But I came from outside it . " |
| 29 | No , I came from India straight to England . |
| 30 | Where I came from . ’ |