Example sentences of "[pron] they come " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a miserable and heart-breaking business to take peasant families who left Vietnam 's poor northern provinces with visions of a new life in America dancing in their heads , who endured dangerous sea voyages , and who believed that Hong Kong 's camps , however dreadful , were a way station to their dream — to take these families and to return them to the red dirt farms and meagre fishing villages from which they came . |
| 2 | It is a miserable and heart-breaking business to take peasant families who left Vietnam 's poor northern provinces with visions of a new life in America dancing in their heads , who endured dangerous sea voyages , and who believed that Hong Kong 's camps , however dreadful , were a way station to their dream — to take these families and to return them to the red dirt farms and meagre fishing villages from which they came . |
| 3 | And , further , ‘ the circumstances in which they came to be made were never reported by journalists . ’ |
| 4 | No one , apart from the Palestinians , seriously thought of a return to the ( Israeli ) part of Palestine from which they came . |
| 5 | Doubtless , given the backgrounds from which they came and the support they received , many of these distinguished citizens would have done well , whatever school they had attended . |
| 6 | The open-air Museum shows buildings removed from the Ulster countryside and re-erected at Cultra in a setting made to resemble the landscape from which they came . |
| 7 | The amount of bone present in assemblages of prey , and the species representation , vary from predator to predator but are always biased with respect to the community from which they came . |
| 8 | Now they tended to find their victims , and the loot for which they came , locked behind strong walls ; if they ventured too far , they found garrisons sallying from these fortresses and cutting off their escape . |
| 9 | On their heads were checked winter head scarves twisted into turbans that showed by the particular shape the area from which they came . |
| 10 | We shall consider each of them in the chronological order in which they came to Anselm 's attention . |
| 11 | This schematic characterization , however , does not do justice either to the manner in which they attempted to keep both poles in play at once , nor to the way in which they came to concede the impossibility of the theoretical projects which they undertook . |
| 12 | Under-strength and under pressure , John Helliwell 's men held out to finish a season in which they came fourth in the Norwich Union East Premier on a high note . |
| 13 | The apparent ineffectiveness of naval forces , particularly when contrasted with the vital role which they came to play in the sixteenth century , may have turned students against the subject . |
| 14 | By plotting the position of stray finds on a map , it is often possible to pinpoint the archaeological site from which they came . |
| 15 | This was the activity with which they came to be most closely identified in the first fifty years of their existence . |
| 16 | This interest drove me to inquire in depth into the experiences and feelings of individuals and to try and identify the processes by which they came to define themselves and other people under one set of categories rather than another . |
| 17 | Parthia was by now a remote state , though formidable : the Magi had some of the prestige of the mysterious region from which they came and offered spiritual goods of their own . |
| 18 | It is important that we decide the matter quickly because , if we do so , the bogus applicants can be returned to the countries from which they came . |
| 19 | While the Romans are described as being tributary , it seems that the lands which had originally been granted to free-born Franks had been exempt from tax , and that the Franks subsequently assumed that any lands which they came to hold were similarly exempt . |
| 20 | Each of the shaded regions is much longer in the a-direction and much narrower in the p-direction than the original regions from which they came . |
| 21 | One can , however , disaggregate some embryonic organs into cells which will reaggregate into patterns resembling the tissue from which they come . |
| 22 | It also has the effect of making doctors jittery about stopping at road accidents which they come across . |
| 23 | Before grapes are allowed the full AOC status of Champagne , the vines from which they come , whether situated in a virgin vineyard or an old one just replanted , must attain their ‘ third leaf ’ , by which is meant that the plants , having produced foliage for the third time , will be three years old . |
| 24 | For the past decade , the two have been exploring the boundaries of costume exhibitions at New York 's Fashion Institute of Technology , from which they come with a dazzling reputation . |
| 25 | J. B. The mothers , the families in which they come from . |
| 26 | But the stage at which they come to believe there is no way in which they can achieve the aim is the stage at which you need to re-examine the objective that the business has been set . |
| 27 | Identified and sorted into groups representing the types and parts of animals from which they come , a catalogue of the bones is compiled including bone measurement which indicates the size of the animals and even their age at death . |
| 28 | Outwards , there has been a call to overcome the sources of alien influence which are corrupting the Muslim societies with which they come into contact . |
| 29 | The key point about her is that although she obviously needs the state and its resources , she does not need these in the oppressive , bureaucratic and regulatory forms in which they come . |
| 30 | The agony of the victims ' families , and the communities from which they come , is just as bad . |