Example sentences of "[pers pn] was 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 | The Labour leader said that in her supposed splendid isolation from Europe , Margaret Thatcher showed she was from the Greta Garbo school of diplomacy . |
| 5 | She was from The Blue Anchor , bound for Tigers Bay . |
| 6 | She was from the hareem of Um Hamed , a large and powerful hareem dominated by Um Hamed 's mother-in-law . |
| 7 | She said she was from the American magazine , Leaders of Mankind . |
| 8 | His second was that she was from the estate agent 's . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She said she was from the |
| 11 | But it was from the first emphasised that a priesthood of succession should be established through Aaron , Moses ' brother . |
| 12 | It was from the beginning very successful , which I take to be evidence of the growing sense that the established English synthesis was weakening , with a corresponding desire among students and teachers for new orientations . |
| 13 | It was from the ranks of Oxbridge enthusiasts that these commentators were mostly drawn . |
| 14 | When he spoke , it was from the first Tory bench below the gangway , the place he used as a backbencher before his ministerial days , in his youth as the Chingford Skinhead . |
| 15 | There was a faint glimmer of light from her window ; it was from the night-light which she kept burning . |
| 16 | It was one of those rare occasions when a covert operation could be examined in the full glare of publicity and it showed what a foolhardy idea it was from the start for , even if Crabb had returned safely , it is unlikely he could have brought back enough information to have justified the risk in the first place . |
| 17 | But the sun 's rays reflected wickedly off the intense blue waters of the lake , so it was from the small window of the launch that I — a different creature by far — watched the pyramid shape of Taquile drift by , and the few kilometres of Amantani come into view . |
| 18 | Even more important however , it was from the eastern window here that Jaroslav Martinic and William Slavata , both fanatical Catholics and Habsburg supporters , were defenestrated by members of the Bohemian Protestant Estates in 1618 ( see p. 10 ) . |
| 19 | Platzer again was responsible for the statuary and it was from the Platzer workshop too , in the mid-18C , that the Jesuit saints flanking the nave came . |
| 20 | SAVE 's contention was that the entrance to a park was of crucial importance , however distant it was from the house itself . |
| 21 | But it was from the beginning an erotic exercise . |
| 22 | She did n't know whether it was from the night that she had overheard his conversation with her mother in the bedroom , or when she saw him fling that shovel at the young man who , she knew , could have felled him with one blow , that she had lost all respect for him . |
| 23 | It was from the beginning an area of Birmingham rather than a self-contained town superimposed on the landscape , and its running and development have always been independent of the chocolate factory . |
| 24 | It was from the research and development section of the famous mint manufacturers . |
| 25 | It was from the caravan that he ran People Against Nuclear Power , with its acronym PANUP , the small organization of which he was both founder and president . |
| 26 | It was from the Toronto Golf Club in 1985 and headed |
| 27 | If Italy provided Ramsay with the polish of sophistication and a kind of classical elegance , it was from the French that he learnt a quality he was to make quite his own : gracefulness . |
| 28 | In Christ all things have become new , and yet everything remains as it was from the beginning … ’ |
| 29 | It was from the Machine Knitters Association of Western Australia , inviting me to be the principal demonstrator at their seminar in January 1992 . |
| 30 | It was from the USA that the ‘ group system ’ of investigation now advocated by ICAO originated as , to a certain extent , did the present format of ICAO aircraft accident reports . |