Example sentences of "was from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was from Sheffield and worked as a clerk , and was in a fundamentalist evangelical crusade . |
| 2 | Peter was from Germany , and Helga was from California : they were solo travellers looking for entertainment , travelling together for her convenience . |
| 3 | And something about how she did not speak the French of France because she was from Martinique , and how she was n't rich and she was n't chic . |
| 4 | You have to code the numbers of the athletes and they are supposed to be on the inside so you ca n't read them , but they were outside so you could — you could see which one was from Krabbe , Breuer and Moller . |
| 5 | She was from Bradford West . |
| 6 | I read in a magazine that he was from Scotland . ’ |
| 7 | The only sound in the kitchen , while they watched Ernest reading the letter , was from Enoch , happily singing a nursery rhyme . |
| 8 | One of the dead men and the survivor were from Stockbridge Village , while the third was from Wallasey , Wirral . |
| 9 | A LORRY driver killed in an accident on an M1 contraflow was from Greater Manchester , police said . |
| 10 | The temperature range of the fish to be kept was from 70°s ; F ( 21°s ; C ) to 82°s ; F ( 28°s ; C ) so the temperature was set at 79°s ; F ( 26°s ; C ) . |
| 11 | It was from Finn . |
| 12 | pGEM-7Zf(+) phagemid was from Promega , Wisconsin , USA . |
| 13 | L-Cpl Lawrence Dickson , 26 , of the 1st Battalion The Royal Scots , was from Edinburgh and lived in the Inverness area with his German-born wife , Silke , and their daughter Roxanne , who will be two in July . |
| 14 | My great-grandmother was from Paris . ’ |
| 15 | The flight was from Paris to London , but because there was a strike in London affecting BEA 's Paris to London service a large number of British nationals were transferred to the Turkish DC-10 flight . |
| 16 | By the turn of the century road races were being held regularly , using Paris as a base , and the first real race was from Paris to Bordeaux , and back , in June 1895 . |
| 17 | The first race was from Paris to Lyons in 1900 and it remained an open road race until 1903 when it was held over the Athy circuit in Ireland . |
| 18 | She was from Russia , you see . |
| 19 | As a local — he was from Thorn — and as a farmer with business interests in the Free City , they had trusted his leadership far more than they trusted Forster , whom they saw as a boorish Bavarian appointed by Berlin . |
| 20 | When I was twelve , and I got baptized , erm a lady gave me a little text and it was from Joshua chapter one and it was verse nine and it says have I not commanded you be strong and courageous do not be terrified , do not be discouraged for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go and that 's a verse that I 've been able to remember and to thank God for on so many different occasions all through my training as a doctor and it 's , all the promises in the bible are absolutely true and you can rely on them because it 's not a book written by men but it 's a book written by God . |
| 21 | Er , before we start , I would like to say that we have received a request er , I think it was from Longman Dic tories er Dictionaries to have er , one of our meetings recorded , and er , after discussing with the leader of the Council , er and er we decided that that this may be the best committee to record . |
| 22 | The lesson was from Corinthians . |
| 23 | It was from Dr James Mortimer , who asked for an appointment with Holmes . |
| 24 | I had not yet told Margaret it was from Bill . |
| 25 | She attended to it , to discover the only message on it was from Bill Martin . |
| 26 | I thought it was from generator to a pipe , couple of hand brakes in there . |
| 27 | Triiodothyronine was from Sigma . |
| 28 | Chemicals for radioimmunoassay were from Amersham International except PGE 2 antiserum , which was from Sigma Chemical Company . |
| 29 | Chemicals for radioimmunoassay were obtained from Amersham International except PGE 2 antisera , which was from Sigma Chemicals Limited and TXB 2 which was donated by Dr Lawrence Levine . |
| 30 | It was from Christine . |