Example sentences of "[pers pn] come from a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I come from a Jewish family which includes victim 's ; that picture of myself was a particularly horrible one . |
| 2 | ‘ I come from a great medical mafia , most of my relatives are medically involved one way or another , ’ she told David Frost yesterday , adding that none of her family have private health insurance . |
| 3 | ‘ I come from a village called Um Al-Farajh , ’ she said . |
| 4 | I think what was different in my approach , and it partly goes back to my background , is that firstly I had been working on educational planning , and that secondly I come from a background of market research . |
| 5 | I come from a learners ' perspective , a needs ' perspective , and I do n't believe that anybody has a God-given right to make those programmes with all these resources without thinking about it that way . |
| 6 | I come from a military family , that is to say a family that has always followed the drum , and probably had to carry it too . |
| 7 | My first ambition was to be a concert pianist , but I come from a long line of actors and I suppose it was inevitable really that I 'd follow them . |
| 8 | I come from a fanatically rugby-conscious Welsh miner 's family ; five of my six brothers played it with some distinction . |
| 9 | I come from a family , many of whose members fought in the last war , but at least that was a serious war . |
| 10 | I 'm not er a great fan of the monarchy , although that I would say that I come from a family which is , devoted a large portion of it 's life in service and work to the royal family . |
| 11 | Now , there 's been lots of talk about gay and lesbian people not having no rights , I come from a Jewish society , I 've got people who suffer anti-semitic ri , feelings , there 's lot of erm multi-ra , ethnic majorities who cover on this programme , and I think that issue has to be looked at as well . |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps I come from a long line of knights and no-one ever told me . |
| 13 | ‘ Because I come from a booky family , in some ways I 've taken writing for granted — it 's like coming from a family of butchers and going into the meat trade . |
| 14 | I come from a village It 's like er , erm a lion in general , a lion in cage . |
| 15 | ‘ I come from a small village in the far north of Scotland . ’ |
| 16 | For I come from a time when your novel is generally acknowledged as a masterpiece of literature and prophetic insight , a time when Frankenstein is as familiar a name to the literate as Gulliver or Robinson Crusoe is to you ! ’ |
| 17 | In that way , you are ahead of your age : I come from a civilization long hypnotized by the idea of its Nemesis . |
| 18 | I 've never had an honorary degree before , in fact I come from a generation which found it difficult to get to university so I did n't have a degree of any kind |
| 19 | My social history is very different from Trevelyan 's , one of the most remarkable books on English social history , because of course I come from a very different background , I 've different experience from Trevelyan , but also I 've been writing at a different time . |
| 20 | You come from a musical family … |
| 21 | If you come from a certain town or region , you will know what the different voices mean better than someone who comes from outside because you 've learned the code . |
| 22 | If you come from a long line of octogenarians , then clearly you will need to work out the sums on the basis of the next 20 years or longer . |
| 23 | When you come from a big family , as I do , erm yo you can have any size of wedding as long as the right people are there , anybody gets excluded it 's er to be horrendous ! |
| 24 | You come from a modesty culture . |
| 25 | Anne ‘ s quick wit made her popular and one of the women said admiringly , ‘ You can tell you come from a big family , girl , the way you come out with the wisecracks . ’ |
| 26 | You come from a rich country . |
| 27 | You come from a world in which you make all the rules . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ You come from a violent city like LA to what you think will be a nice peaceful place and what happens ? |
| 29 | And if you come from a family that do n't bother and they have n't got the time to show you how to do things , or do things with you , and do n't send you to a nursery school then you start you know just I suppose like what they do is . |
| 30 | You scum of the earth de , de , de , de , de , de , de , de you should only have that attitude if you come from a deprived childhood |