Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ He was very much an East End boy and I was from the country , ’ explains Shrimpton . |
| 3 | Cunning — she could find out where I was from the town code . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ You said you were from the Ministry . ’ |
| 7 | He said you were from the Home Office . |
| 8 | You were from the institution were n't you ? |
| 9 | You did say you were from the W I did you ? |
| 10 | ‘ Why did n't you tell me who you were from the start ? |
| 11 | ‘ That you were from the police . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 14 | She was from the hareem of Um Hamed , a large and powerful hareem dominated by Um Hamed 's mother-in-law . |
| 15 | His second was that she was from the estate agent 's . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Everyone knew we were from the prison , they stared at us . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | One was from the Arisleus Vision : ‘ With so much love did Beya embrace Gabricus that she entirely absorbed him in her own nature and dissolved him in inseparable atoms . ’ |
| 22 | Five of the initial appointees were from supply companies , five from public electricity authorities , while one was from the engineering industry , two from the trade unions and one from the civil service . |
| 23 | She walked slowly , Anna 's damp hand in hers , keeping to what shade there was from the buildings . |
| 24 | The results showed that there was twice as much free ball from the Currie Cup game line-outs as there was from the World Cup games . |
| 25 | The farther away they were from the centre of authority the easier it was . |
| 26 | And they 'd been down the Lake District , they were from the Lake district . |
| 27 | Some of them , hearing my camelmen speaking Somali , became increasingly threatening , asserting that they were from the Issa , a Somali tribe with whom they were then , as always , at war . |
| 28 | They were from the Lord Provost of Glasgow . |
| 29 | They were from the North of England , working-class , unemployed but it was thought only temporarily . |
| 30 | He declined to give any personal details about the pair apart from saying they were from the United Kingdom . |