Example sentences of "he came from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came from the far north and at the Highland games he used to array himself in kilt and sporran and throw cabers around like matchsticks . |
| 2 | In fact I knew nothing of his family life — only that he came from the poorest part of the town , a row of " yards " containing tumbledown cottages , some of them evacuated because of their condition . |
| 3 | Fran had read all she could about Luke Calder before the interview and knew that he came from the poorest part of Glasgow and that he had got to where he was today by dint of sheer hard work and determination , but , looking at him now , she found it hard to imagine that he had come from anything but a moneyed background . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Silly-Willie met her in the hall , he came from the farthest door ; his step was as fast and light as his dancing . |
| 6 | Clever , witty and articulate , he came from the intellectual elite which McCarthy so effectively attacked as responsible for many of America 's problems . |
| 7 | As Dulé had never heard his mother tongue , he and his new companions could only surmise , from the similar flare of their nostrils , the high broad set of their shoulders on slender frames , and the deep oval plunge of their chins on thin , round necks , that he came from the same part of the hinterland of West Africa , was of the Iqbo people in his origins . |
| 8 | Much of his youth was spent in Clermont , a city where the latter had been bishop , and his mentor there was Avitus , whose name indicates that he came from the same family as Sidonius 's father-in-law . |