Example sentences of "she came from " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was of course aware that she came from a Catholic to a barely Protestant country in a state of intense flux and religious upheaval ; her new subjects presented her with a set of pressing confessional and political problems . |
| 2 | She came from outside the parish as there is no entry of this marriage in the Register Books nor is there mention of the marriage of her sister , Susanna , to Georg Ehret , the botanical artist , in 1738 . |
| 3 | This may say something about Bridget Freemantle , that she did not stand on her dignity in her friendship with the poet , even though she came from a more genteel background , and was about the age of Leapor 's parents . |
| 4 | But there is still the possibility that she came from the area north-east of the City . ’ |
| 5 | Her teacher was white — indeed , all the teachers were white — and told them with great pride that she came from England . |
| 6 | I had never seen a bank nurse before and assumed she came from the Natwest . |
| 7 | In fact she came from a pool of nurses , hence ‘ bank ’ . |
| 8 | She came from Bagnol and had started her day at 8 o'clock : she would arrive home at 4.0 to 4.15 after her bus journey . |
| 9 | She came from Chorlton-on-Medlock and he created the Sunshine troupe around her . |
| 10 | I considered I had had a sheltered upbringing — perhaps ‘ genteel ’ is nearer the mark — but she came from the world of country weekends , day and night nurseries , nannies , and never having to worry about where next week 's housekeeping money was coming from , or having to do the washing up . |
| 11 | Like everyone else in the village , he knew who she was and where she came from . |
| 12 | I said that I understood she came from the Continent , and she told me that she was born in Denmark . |
| 13 | She came from a large family of seven children , of whom she was the eldest . |
| 14 | She came from County Antrim , he told me . ’ |
| 15 | Later that evening she had told him that she came from Newcastle , that her widowed father had remarried and that she and her stepmother could n't get on . |
| 16 | She came from ‘ over the hill ’ , from the higher part of Littondale , and she was as silent as her native dale . |
| 17 | It seemed to me then , in my gymslip innocence , quite obvious that nobody would love ( in any passionate sense that mattered ) any female over 40 , whether she came from Fairyland or Finsbury Park . |
| 18 | His wife was Elizabeth Adlam , whom he had married in 1765 ; baptised in 1737 , daughter of William and Ann , she came from a fairly prolific Frome family . |
| 19 | And if people remembered her they would not have known where she came from . |
| 20 | He did not wish to make her unhappy by any further probing after such a flow of confidences , so he just asked her which city in England she came from , this being a question all immigrants were accustomed to . |
| 21 | I remember when she came from India after your grandmother died . |
| 22 | She had no money when she came from India , except for a little in bonds , or something , but not enough to live on . |
| 23 | She is pleased for Naomi Campbell , although she says that she should ‘ remember where she came from . |
| 24 | ‘ I was simply trying to find out if she came from a family that loved good literature . ’ |
| 25 | She came from a housing estate in Tadley , and her husband worked at the Establishment behind the Falcon Gate . |
| 26 | Lucille Castineau had lived all her twenty-seven years in the Norman countryside and , though she came from a noble family , she proudly considered herself to be a farm woman . |
| 27 | She came from an eminent legal family and the wedding took place at Croxton , Cambridgeshire , where her family had a home , on 2 May 1758 . |
| 28 | The clerk even asked where in Germany she came from . |
| 29 | Not that I was trying to hide where she came from , but I did n't want her to be singled out . |
| 30 | She came from a large family , and it must be supposed that her mother or one of her sisters helped to care for the children while she was at work . |