Example sentences of "[pron] come from the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see , I come from the criminal classes . |
| 2 | Hotels which were in the first days of making order , and factories which came from the old Factories Act . |
| 3 | The popes had to come to terms with the nobles and those who came from the noble families of the city naturally built up their own families and factions in order to survive . |
| 4 | J. Three of the trading estates have had New Towns built with them to house workers and their families who come from the larger towns or from villages where there is no more work . |
| 5 | The children come from East and West Sussex , although to my astonishment there 's one who comes from the far reaches of West Sussex , right away over erm the other side of Chichester . |
| 6 | The SPA won 38 seats with 25 per cent of the vote , only six of these seats being directly elected and 32 of them coming from the 40 seats to be allocated on the basis of proportional representation . |
| 7 | They came from the armed forces , from war work , from factory , farm , workshop and office . |
| 8 | They came from the four corners of the world , east and west , north and south , and they spoke many languages . |
| 9 | Encouraged by the pride of the town authorities , the Guy Fawkes celebrations provided an annual explosion for the town 's poor : deprived as they had been of saints ' days with the advent of Puritanism , they came from the miserable hovels cramped in the town 's back alleys to protest not only against the symbols of oppression but also , in bad years , against the local oligarchy . |
| 10 | They came from the big houses down the loch or over the pass towards Loch Lomond , or the castle at Inverary , from miles and miles , little girls in furred and caped coats and dresses gathered into heavy bows behind the cascades of ringlets . |
| 11 | The curriculum is designed by teachers who unconsciously reflect the view that city life is best , even if they come from the rural areas . |
| 12 | They come from the roughest jails where they expect trouble all the time . |
| 13 | They come from the upper classes and are socially acceptable . |
| 14 | Yes , they come from the local schools and erm The Watch , the children of what they call The Watch erm part of the Sussex Trust come along , and erm oh , they just pop in and very often they , at the end of term they come with tadpoles and things that they Oh , I , I have n't mentioned the frogs and toads , we 've plenty of those . |
| 15 | Leonard Cheshire and I were pilot officers together in No 4 Group at the beginning of the war ; he came from the dreaming spires of Oxford and I had just been commissioned as a pilot officer after serving a stint of five years as a sergeant pilot . |
| 16 | It came from the following advisers : trade union , medical , employer , police , potential defendant , AA/RAC , the advisee 's own insurance company , workmate or fellow patient , friend , relative . |
| 17 | It is called Kulta and it comes from the distant reaches of Lapland . |