Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cunning — she could find out where I was from the town code . |
| 2 | I did not know what to do or where to go , so I approached a very nice policeman , told him I was from the country and asked which gate I should use . |
| 3 | ‘ He was very much an East End boy and I was from the country , ’ explains Shrimpton . |
| 4 | Only lot 10 failed to sell , probably due to its similarity to the two previous lots which were from the same series , and its slightly poorer condition . |
| 5 | It also provides poorly for origins of the workers … 116 are shown coming from outside the county , which was Lancashire : 106 are from the county , but this does not disclose which were from the district around Coniston . |
| 6 | The couple , who were from the Portuguese community in Jersey , separated earlier this year . |
| 7 | A telephone call to the Grand confirmed that the Swans , who were from the Forest of Arden and thus constituents of Sir Ralph Grunte , had a double room on the first floor . |
| 8 | ( c.26 ) " Since the kingdom consists of different regions , officers of the first , second , and indeed any rank should so far as possible be picked from different regions , so that [ men from ] the various regions should be able to come to the palace with a greater sense of knowing their way around ( familiarius ) since they would know that men who were from the same kin-group ( genealogia ) or the same region held a place there . " |
| 9 | ‘ You said you were from the Ministry . ’ |
| 10 | You were from the institution were n't you ? |
| 11 | ‘ Why did n't you tell me who you were from the start ? |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm terribly sorry , I thought you were from the British Committee . |
| 13 | He said you were from the Home Office . |
| 14 | I guessed you were from the first , and the fact that you could quite happily and openly go away with him for a weekend everyone would know about confirmed that I was right . |
| 15 | ‘ That you were from the police . ’ |
| 16 | You did say you were from the W I did you ? |
| 17 | The Labour leader said that in her supposed splendid isolation from Europe , Margaret Thatcher showed she was from the Greta Garbo school of diplomacy . |
| 18 | She was from The Blue Anchor , bound for Tigers Bay . |
| 19 | She was from the hareem of Um Hamed , a large and powerful hareem dominated by Um Hamed 's mother-in-law . |
| 20 | She said she was from the American magazine , Leaders of Mankind . |
| 21 | His second was that she was from the estate agent 's . |
| 22 | Erm and she was from the Pentiford area I think , erm oh quite a well educated girl , erm there was nothing to stop them from joining , I mean the London Fire Brigade there are , are fire fighters who are girls , erm and the er they do very well erm there are problems of course , with , with women on fire stations , but nevertheless there 's no reason why they should n't be there , providing they can do the job and I 'm sure those who read the papers and see the news know that in Russia and places like that , women do the , do the job very well . |
| 23 | She said she was from the |
| 24 | He had already christened his guide , who was from the local tourist board , Uncle Ebenezer . |
| 25 | At the consultation a leading psychiatrist , who was from the Society of Friends , insisted that the Devil had no objective reality but was a projection of our fears and insecurities . |
| 26 | She had recognised that her father , too , was common , but that he was a good imitator : from the time he had taken up with her mother , who was from the middle class , he had aimed to act accordingly . |
| 27 | Buyoya , who was from the politically dominant minority Tutsi tribe , expressed his preference for " democracy within the single party [ UPRONA ] " . |
| 28 | Malan , Minister of Defence for 11 years , was reassigned to the Ministry of Housing and Works and also of Water and Forest Affairs , replacing Gert J. Kotze in the latter post with effect from Oct. 1 ; the Defence portfolio was taken by his former deputy , Roelf Meyer , who was from the left of the National Party . |
| 29 | Meanwhile the mother of a nine-year-old boy who was from the same town and died in a ski-ing accident , is being cared for by a church group . |
| 30 | We were conscious of how far we were from the Rothern hut , and of how soft and how avalanche-prone the snow had become in the late afternoon . |