Example sentences of "we came from " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is significant , however , is that few of the grant-aided organisations that we came from still exist today . |
| 2 | Predominantly because we came from outside , but clearly assisted by the fact that we were women . |
| 3 | A year ago we came from Nashville , Tennessee , USA , transferred by Jeff 's employer , Cigna , Inc. , for a couple of years — a temporary move , but one of great significance in our lives . |
| 4 | Yes , there were er , I think there was one , two , three , four houses , four or five houses that were occupied before we came in , they were still building The Chantry incidently and er you know it was a it was quite a shock to us and the wife was a bit upset you know when having to , we came from Plymouth actually , Devon , and er the wife was a bit er down you know all the night travelling all night with the children |
| 5 | the flat in , in London , the flat we came from and so we had accumulated a little more furniture than one would usually have in two rooms and the kitchen and we got here and were allowed to spread ourselves , if there 's one criticism that one could say about this house , is that the size of the rooms confines you to what you put in them , they 're square , that the , the division between the living room and the dining room is through a pair of glass doors , where perhaps that could of been arranged with either sliding doors or some other feature so as not to separate it yet again into two square boxes and erm |
| 6 | We came from our own country in a red room |
| 7 | " Your anthropologists laugh at us for saying we came from the stars . |
| 8 | ‘ We shouted back , trying to explain who we were and where we came from . |
| 9 | GUIL : Wait a minute — we came from roughly south according to a rough map . |
| 10 | To put it another way , if we came from down there ( Front ) and it is morning , the sun would be up there ( His left ) , and if it is actually over there ( His right ) and it 's still morning , we must have come up there ( Behind him ) , and if that is southerly ( His left ) and the sun is really over there ( Front ) , then it 's the afternoon . |
| 11 | And er when I did go to school , er all the bottom of er Mill there used to be all sand banks , and me and the other girl , we we came from this school , to look at this here man with a bear , a big bear . |
| 12 | We came from Newcastle to Northamptonshire . |
| 13 | We look where we came from . |
| 14 | But physics and astronomy offered the hope of understanding where we came from and why we were here . |
| 15 | ‘ We came from the North , ’ said Mrs Molesworth , making herself sound like a Viking horde . |
| 16 | In the village he was told to come to us because we came from Yugoslavia too . |
| 17 | A German Customs officer asked us about our trip and where we came from . |
| 18 | I often felt as if we came from different planets ! ’ |
| 19 | I 'm not being facile , but we came from the sea , we 've dumped on it for years and it looks like it 's getting its own back . |
| 20 | I mean any anybody services , which is probably the the background we came from , success on Wall Street . |
| 21 | I mean originally where we came from you know they er , the snows and er and the cold weather we were eleven hundred feet above sea level |