Example sentences of "where [pers pn] had [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They could not understand where I had come from , or how I could possibly survive . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I did not want anybody to know where I had come from . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Between these , gold-dark , dark-gold and violent pink , lay Lady Rose Martindale , solid but not fat or for in less , indeed very woman-shaped , in pink-and-brown striped silk bathing suit , with gold hair spattered softly over the brown flesh of her shoulders and whitish sand speckled on the gleam of her thighs where she had rolled from side to side . |
| 7 | In between the various tests there was a delay of two or three days when we would be left on tenterhooks in case we had failed ; every afternoon people would be told to pack their bags and would be deposited at Aubagne station to take a train back to where they had come from . |
| 8 | I had enquiries made as to the origins of the zombis , but no one knew where they had come from . |
| 9 | The Pole Star and the Southern Cross gave early sailors some idea of where they had come from and the direction they needed to take . |
| 10 | I had got one souvenir and if not identifiable with the shed , at least I knew where it had come from . |
| 11 | ‘ They wanted our money but did not want anyone to know where it had come from . |
| 12 | It called out in alarm , turned , raced back to where it had come from and then disappeared . |
| 13 | Pascoe saw where it had come from , that excitement , that unstoppable hunger . |
| 14 | Two uniforms were trying to put an extendable ladder up to the skylight — God knows where it had come from — over the bath without actually having to look at the body . |
| 15 | If I knew where it had come from I would do it . |
| 16 | Sometime before Jacques married he had moved from the rue Dauphine St Andre des Arts , where he had lived from about 1714 , to the rue de Seine , in the parish of St Sulpice , where he had a large five-storey house in which he lived for over 40 years until his death in 1763 . |
| 17 | When he woke up , chilled and stiff , he could not at first understand where on earth he was nor where he had come from . |
| 18 | When he woke up , chilled and stiff , he could not at first understand where on earth he was nor where he had come from . |
| 19 | He had come up from the bottom and made it to the top : no one was to forget that he was at the top and everyone was supposed to forget where he had come from and how he had got where he was . |
| 20 | And he felt the strange eagle in the cage next to his waiting for a reply to her question about where he had come from . |