Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see the sign saying Welcome to Inverness just as I remember where I left the car and where I left from this morning and just before I turn and stamp to the nearest desk and demand in my highest dudgeon to be taken to Edinburgh on a charted Lear if necessary or limoed immediately to the highest-starred hotel within a reasonable radius for a free overnight dinner , bed and breakfast and unlimited bar tab . |
| 2 | ‘ Back where I came from . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | Now I go back to my home where I came from . |
| 5 | Where I came from no one spoke of such things . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Where I came from . ’ |
| 8 | Where I differ from Bourdieu is that I do not think that this important distinction leads inevitably to absolute aesthetic relativism . |
| 9 | Where I differ from him is on the nature of the collection as a whole , which to me seems a collection of poems differing in method and indeed quality , written over a period of years , and having two distinct sequences , to the Friend and to the ‘ Dark Lady ’ . |
| 10 | Where I come from , if we see a pigeon we throw a stone at it . |
| 11 | ‘ Where I come from it 's tougher country than this . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ And where I come from , ’ he told her , ‘ it 's soft and beautiful . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Where I come from , we were taught to prefer the best of everything . |
| 16 | " 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's called democracy where I come from . |
| 18 | ‘ Where I come from there is always a war going on somewhere or other . |
| 19 | ‘ Where I come from , it 's normal . |
| 20 | They do n't forget so easily where I come from . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Where I come from is chock-a-block with perfectly useful and agreeable people who happen to be old . ’ |
| 24 | I am very positive in my views , and where I come from . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | It is a lot quieter here than Derby , where I come from . |
| 27 | Those words are n't used where I come from . |
| 28 | no Arthur that 's how we made it where I come from |
| 29 | It was a lovely day when the train steamed into Euston , back where I started from , and there at the ticket barrier J. was waiting , as arranged , and I did n't have to salute anyone any more . |
| 30 | Stockley Park near Heathrow is the site of a huge new golf course , where I work from a small mobile office . |