Example sentences of "[conj] she came [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like everyone else in the village , he knew who she was and where she came from . |
| 2 | And if people remembered her they would not have known where she came from . |
| 3 | Where she came from , where she was going to , or what her name was , nobody knows . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ So you do n't know anything of Mrs Marr 's background , where she came from , who her friends were ? ’ |
| 5 | Where she came from , the Gates of Heaven Ajar were the finest tribute , floral or otherwise , that she could offer . |
| 6 | Tomorrow , she assured herself , as she brushed her teeth , she would wake up with total recall of who she was and where she came from . |
| 7 | Apart from an explanation of the reason for the survey , how he or she came to be selected , a guarantee of anonymity , etc. , each question must maintain the respondent 's cooperation by treating him or her with courtesy and gratitude — a few ‘ pleases ’ and a ‘ thank you ’ are essential . |
| 8 | On the questionnaire form , the pupils were asked to guess the age and sex of each speaker , his or her background , and where he or she came from . |
| 9 | Although she came from a financially privileged background , her education was superficial , governesses being followed by day-schools , a brief interlude at King 's College , London , where she possibly read Latin , continental history , mathematics , and elementary science for two terms , and a year in Dresden . |
| 10 | Mrs Webster said that she came into my bedroom several times , fearing I might be in a coma ! |
| 11 | Of course Luiza should n't be paired with the lanky and very young tenor ; they 'd have to replot the run-up to that part so that she came into the ballroom with someone else . |
| 12 | Whatever it is , now the moment 's here that she came for , that she half foresaw , she wo n't tell . |
| 13 | And thus it was , that February evening , that she came to be standing at the top of the monumental sweep of the staircase , under the huge doorway , pausing for a moment , offering tribute to herself and all her gods . |
| 14 | And thus it was that she came to be , that February evening , standing at the top of the tower block staircase , leaning against the wall and panting a little from her climb , pausing for a moment and thinking gloomy thoughts about life and death . |
| 15 | And thus it was that she came to be , on that February evening , poised at the very crown of the hill in Kensington Gardens , looking down the hill , with her back to Bayswater and home and trembling with the fear that she had at last grown up . |
| 16 | We know that she came to grief . |
| 17 | the summer that she came to us . |
| 18 | Little that is definite is known of her early years , except that she was said to have been a backward child ; that she was sent to a private school , Hope House , in Taunton ; that she broke away from the family tradition of Methodism and became an Anglican ; and that she came to the attention of Dorothea Beale [ q.v. ] , and taught at Cheltenham Ladies ' College from 1877 until 1881 . |
| 19 | ‘ I know she came to Oxford and I 'm certain in my own mind that she came to Breakspear College . |
| 20 | However , now that the papers had been reporting the recent news of her husband 's return from Australia — apparently determined to impress his name and tough personality on the City of London — it was obviously about time that she came to a decision about her future . |
| 21 | It was only when she went to America , headlining for the first time , that she came across the curious racial classification with which music there is compartmentalised . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But there is still the possibility that she came from the area north-east of the City . ’ |
| 24 | Her teacher was white — indeed , all the teachers were white — and told them with great pride that she came from England . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He would not have liked to guess her age , had never seen her in anything other than half-light , and knew nothing about her beyond the fact that she came from a village to the north which she had told him , stood in the shadow of the pyramid of Saqqara . |
| 28 | Rose , for her part , thought that McAllister talked funny , and when Sally-Anne had told her that she came from the United States of America she had stared at her as though she had said that she came from the moon . |
| 29 | Rose , for her part , thought that McAllister talked funny , and when Sally-Anne had told her that she came from the United States of America she had stared at her as though she had said that she came from the moon . |
| 30 | Her sturdy common sense , the downright attitude to life which never ceased to surprise him , the constant loving references to a papa and a mama who sounded remarkably practical themselves , even if they had spoiled their beautiful daughter , informed him that she came from a background very unlike any that Dr Neil had ever encountered . |