Example sentences of "and [conj] [pron] come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laughter is the same language the world over , and the sense of pride and group identity which is engendered when a group tells another about who it is and where they came from is a critical factor in the cementation of the group and fostering of indigenous skills . |
| 2 | Recent palaeomagnetic studies , which identify the magnetic secrets ‘ frozen ’ into the rocks when they solidified , have also enabled scientists to decipher when the rocks moved and where they came from . |
| 3 | And Preston very dubious , because she did n't look like she had a baby in her tummy and experience had taught him to be very sceptical about any information his family gave out , especially on the subject of babies and where they came from . |
| 4 | I told him about my family and where they came from , then told him about my father . |
| 5 | What precisely those technologies are , and where they come from , is still under discussion , it says . |
| 6 | When papers are destroyed deliberately , however , as they are in half of the cases of those claiming asylum at the ports , apparently to conceal the identification of the claimants and where they come from , that must adversely affect their credibility — unless they have a convincing explanation . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , we 'll see what we 're up against and where they come from . |
| 8 | On the contrary , the study of the humanities is essential to society as a whole , since ‘ the humanities are concerned with a truthful understanding of where we are and where we come from ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ We shouted back , trying to explain who we were and where we came from . |
| 10 | A German Customs officer asked us about our trip and where we came from . |
| 11 | ‘ We do n't known what you are and where you come from . |
| 12 | Well that was fourteen minutes so you 've got fifteen minutes to ask questions of John , and it would help , I think , if you want to ask a question , to stand up and say who you are and where you come from , which constituency . |
| 13 | For a considerable time , at least some of us have questioned where the IRA is trained and where it comes from . |
| 14 | ‘ And where I come from , ’ he told her , ‘ it 's soft and beautiful . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I am very positive in my views , and where I come from . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | And this were a er field p his regiment with his regiment on , and he wrote his name on and where he came from . |
| 19 | Like everyone else in the village , he knew who she was and where she came from . |
| 20 | Tomorrow , she assured herself , as she brushed her teeth , she would wake up with total recall of who she was and where she came from . |
| 21 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 22 | What has been taken as kind of definition , which I 'll paraphrase I think for this purpose , is that it 's a condition that shows itself in children 's reading difficulty and erm that they are having this reading difficulty despite the fact that they have had reasonable , normal teaching , that their level of intelligence appears to be normal and that they come from an adequate social cultural background . |
| 23 | More important was that German and Italian aid tended to arrive on request , and especially when most needed following Nationalist setbacks or preceding major pushes ; that it was channelled through Franco as Nationalist leader and not , as with Soviet aid to the Republic , through a political faction ; and that it came on easy credit terms with no political strings attached . |
| 24 | An investigation of the Directorate published in Izvestiya of Oct. 22 , 1992 , revealed that the October 1991 order to form it from the troops of the Russian Interior Ministry was unknown to Supreme Soviet deputies ; that its personnel was armed and " in exceptional circumstances " could distribute its arms to people 's deputies ; that it guarded about 75 buildings in Moscow , " two-thirds of which have absolutely no relation to the parliament " ; and that it came under the jurisdiction only of the parliamentary Chairman . |
| 25 | Wherever we see an ancient town church without a churchyard , we may well suspect that the town is the daughter of some mother village near by — now completely overshadowed by its offspring — and that it came into existence at a comparatively late date , since the Norman Conquest anyway , and most probably in the twelfth or thirteenth century . |
| 26 | Most importantly , Rita , just as she makes her own diagnosis , knows — unlike the professionals — exactly what the ‘ shock ’ is and that it comes from somewhere : |
| 27 | Gregory says he was the son of a slave and that he came to prominence in the household of king Charibert , whence he was promoted to being comes of Tours . |
| 28 | Little that is definite is known of her early years , except that she was said to have been a backward child ; that she was sent to a private school , Hope House , in Taunton ; that she broke away from the family tradition of Methodism and became an Anglican ; and that she came to the attention of Dorothea Beale [ q.v. ] , and taught at Cheltenham Ladies ' College from 1877 until 1881 . |
| 29 | She told the poor people who had taken her in that the girl was illegitimate , and that she came from a bad family with an evil reputation . |
| 30 | His death was accidental , but the police would never believe that , and so they came to their terrible decision , to cut the body up and hide it . |