Example sentences of "[pron] was from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was from a family in Northern California , about thirty miles out of San Francisco ; I had an older brother who had and still has a great collection of 45s , but we were actually swimmers . |
| 2 | I was from a working-class area . |
| 3 | Cunning — she could find out where I was from the town code . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ He was very much an East End boy and I was from the country , ’ explains Shrimpton . |
| 6 | I tried opium , and my first experience with anything really hard , using it intravenously , was when I used Omnopon which was from a lifeboat , y'know , from the life-saving equipment on a lifeboat . |
| 7 | She was from a very high-class family . |
| 8 | She was French , her name was Joanne and she was from a well-respected French circus family . |
| 9 | As she was from a neighbouring Emirate which had a far less critical attitude toward the participation of women in education , Girl ‘ A ’ , it was discovered , had taught in an infant school after finishing her own schooling . |
| 10 | In January 1917 Lewis married Elsie Schneider in New York ; she was from a Jewish family . |
| 11 | I was not wearing any special clothes , but this lady — she was from an old Lucknow family could see by my manners that I was not a common person . ’ |
| 12 | The Labour leader said that in her supposed splendid isolation from Europe , Margaret Thatcher showed she was from the Greta Garbo school of diplomacy . |
| 13 | She was from The Blue Anchor , bound for Tigers Bay . |
| 14 | She was from the hareem of Um Hamed , a large and powerful hareem dominated by Um Hamed 's mother-in-law . |
| 15 | She said she was from the American magazine , Leaders of Mankind . |
| 16 | His second was that she was from the estate agent 's . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She said she was from the |
| 19 | Her philosophy of life changed when she was 17 and met this girl who was from a really weird and fucked-up background , but who was ‘ so positive ’ . |
| 20 | On another occasion , a lovely lady called Elsa who came to tidy my room , and who was from a South American country , took me into her confidence and told me about some of the problems she was facing . |
| 21 | He had already christened his guide , who was from the local tourist board , Uncle Ebenezer . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Buyoya , who was from the politically dominant minority Tutsi tribe , expressed his preference for " democracy within the single party [ UPRONA ] " . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | This showed how very different everything was from the situation that had developed in England over the course of centuries , and colonial developments always gave Englishmen the idea that they were moving into empty land and seeing what could be made out of it . |
| 28 | Of the surviving compositors I interviewed , one was from a family of 9 children , another from one of 8 , one had at least three sisters , and the last was one of only two , whose father had died young . |
| 29 | One was from a retired ship 's captain , now living at Fowey in Cornwall , giving news of his house and garden ; the others were impersonal , acknowledgments of subscriptions to various charities , and some business letters from the estate agent who dealt with the letting of the two other flats . |
| 30 | One was from a member regretting inability to help in ‘ 86 and saying she intended to ‘ pile in for ‘ 87 . ’ |