Example sentences of "[pers pn] have come from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had come from the hotel expecting to return , and was quite unprepared . |
| 2 | There was little conversation : nothing had happened in Dent that day worth the telling , and it was none of their business to ask where I had come from and where I was going . |
| 3 | The questions of who I was , where I had come from and where I was going struck them with confusion . |
| 4 | Where I had come from , in the English provinces , the markets were quite small , and reserved for food . |
| 5 | They could not understand where I had come from , or how I could possibly survive . |
| 6 | My Houy master was very interested in me , and as soon as I could speak the language , he asked me to explain where I had come from . |
| 7 | I did not want anybody to know where I had come from . |
| 8 | In spite of my difficulties , all the officers and men showed great kindness and patience ; except for one Australian officer who did not disguise the fact that he would have been only too happy to send me back to where I had come from . |
| 9 | My best course would have been to follow the track to the village , strike the road , and then to go along the road until I met the track by which I had come from the shore . |
| 10 | There had been little birdsong in the devastated places I had come from and I think it was the striking on my ear of the calling of a blackbird , so meaningful somehow as it sounded out clearly from the delicious chatter in those trees that made me feel the war was over . |
| 11 | And then I had come from erm what shall we say , a general , my grandparents had kept a general shop and general I mean , from baking , he was a baker er a butcher a coalman and my grandmother saw after the haberdashery , hats etcetera and the grocery . |
| 12 | So I had co I had come from , what would you say , the right stock , had n't I ? |
| 13 | That , and my only tape , ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ , reminding me of where I 've been and where I 've come from . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , master , ’ I neighed , ‘ I 've come from a country on the other side of the world . |
| 15 | " I 've come from a bit farther than Chelsea tonight , " |
| 16 | I 've come from the market . ’ |
| 17 | Cos I 've come from higher class to the low lower class . |
| 18 | Yeah , but looking at college like I 've come from school like , and I never liked it at school . |
| 19 | I 've come from a village background actually , and homelessness was n't a major problem in our villages because a lot of these sorts of characters somehow were adopted by the community . |
| 20 | And erm that 's quite special for me , it 's erm my homeland , where I 've come from , but I 've been twelve years in this vicinity around here , so there is erm if you like , a divided loyalty with the four kids . |
| 21 | I have come from the Thackrays . " |
| 22 | I have come from London to see you , a lot of people know that , and I have a taxi waiting outside with my luggage in it . ’ |
| 23 | And how strange , she thought , that I have come from him , and you are but now going to him , and yet I do not envy even you , the most enviable of women ! |
| 24 | Maybe I can never convince you that I am other than a spirit , for what I have to tell you is this : that I have come from two hundred years in the future to speak to you — to sit here by this window and talk as we talk now ! ’ |
| 25 | I have come from the people . |
| 26 | Now one can say well what are we aiming for in terms of the sexual harassment free environment , and I think that what one would be aiming for is if not the atmosphere of a girls ' convent school one 's certainly aiming at an environment where women can work and study and interact without the sense of being constantly on display as sexual objects , and , you know , to that extent I do n't know if it is the case that a large number of the respondents are saying , you know , ‘ I have come from an environment when I have n't had to deal with this before , and I do n't expect to have to deal with it ’ then we should certainly sit up and take notice of that . |
| 27 | ‘ She has come from the cool north . ’ |
| 28 | In role the teacher enters as a traveller to tell them that she has come from a neighbouring village , where Roman soldiers are delivering a decree that all will have to pay a new tax ; the traveller has to go on her way . |
| 29 | Out where you 've come from ? |
| 30 | And yet because you 've come from a P A Y E background , you feel you 've got to get up in the morning , and go to work . |