Example sentences of "[pers pn] come from a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heading ‘ Letterman productions , Hollywood , London , paris ’ , with a movie camera logo , seems to me to come from a comic book , but it obviously reminds Mr Shah of his brief association with Ava Gardner , Clark Gable and John Ford . |
| 2 | I came from a rough area so that 's the way it worked . |
| 3 | ‘ I came from a poor family in the countryside and communism gave me a chance for a better life . |
| 4 | I do n't come from an evangelical background , I came from a raw environment straight into the contentions of the Big Man and you could n't have been too extreme . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps I come from a long line of knights and no-one ever told me . |
| 7 | ‘ I come from a small village in the far north of Scotland . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I come from a Jewish family which includes victim 's ; that picture of myself was a particularly horrible one . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was a lesson on how to conduct yourself in huge menacing Dublin traffic if you came from a small place like Knockglen . |
| 13 | If you came from a poor family the only way you could get secondary education was by gaining a scholarship . |
| 14 | She came from a prominent Bristol family of nonconformists and industrialists , where her father had long been active in the abolitionist movement . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She came from a large family of seven children , of whom she was the eldest . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She came from a well-known north London family , and was the widow of a proctor . |
| 19 | She told the poor people who had taken her in that the girl was illegitimate , and that she came from a bad family with an evil reputation . |
| 20 | Oh , lucky ewe , I said , does she come from a respectable flock ? |
| 21 | Do you come from a big family ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Do you come from a large family , Maura ? ’ |
| 23 | Did you come from a musical family ? |
| 24 | ‘ You come from a violent city like LA to what you think will be a nice peaceful place and what happens ? |
| 25 | You come from a rich country . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | You come from a musical family … |
| 30 | 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 ! |