Example sentences of "[pers pn] be from the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm from the police . |
| 2 | She 'll be able to tell you something if you 're from the police . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You 're from the police . ’ |
| 4 | Now you 're from the Troops Out movement . |
| 5 | ‘ That you were from the police . ’ |
| 6 | She 's from the dregs . |
| 7 | ‘ You see , one of the advantages of being dead is that one is released as it were from the bonds of time and therefore I can see everything that has happened or will happen , all at the same time except that of course I now know that Time does not , for all practical purposes , exist . ’ |
| 8 | well done , I never can get that word out I stumble with it every time and that gets a signal from the brain that says this is a difficult situation this is something I 'm not used to this is some I it 's very primitive it 's it 's from the days in the jungle or whatever er a fear of fright over absolute it 's fight or flight , and that 's why you start breathing quicker because the blood wants more oxygen because it 's ready to run or to fight because the muscles , it is |
| 9 | It 's for me , Thérèse exclaimed : it 's from the nuns in Soeur Dosithée 's old convent . |
| 10 | I do n't know how it goes I 've forgotten but it it 's from the angels do the next thing , ha |
| 11 | According to the handwritten inscription over the cutting it is from The Times , page three , on June 25th . |
| 12 | As it is from the children of the semi- and unskilled working class who leave school without any qualification that the underclass is being recruited , it is important to ask which children are most likely to fall into this category . |
| 13 | The steps were worn away at the centre , and Grainne wondered if it was from the footsteps which passed this way every night , or whether it was simply from age . |
| 14 | It was at Brives-la-Gaillarde that he was elevated to the kingship , and it was from the cities of Aquitaine that he received the oaths of loyalty , which most kings must have taken by proxy . |
| 15 | It was from the ranks of Oxbridge enthusiasts that these commentators were mostly drawn . |
| 16 | Ivan founded a monastery at Cetinje , and it was from the monks who lived there that the orthodox bishops were chosen . |
| 17 | It was from the kidnappers . |
| 18 | But it was it was from the bosses if you like , in Birmingham , saying , Do n't get involved in this , this is a small scale skirmish , cos this this is not the time . |
| 19 | At speeds of ninety miles a Police car chased a stolen white fiesta … through narrow country lanes … cars coming in the oppositie direction swerve to avoid it car as it weaves in and out of the traffic … at times the Police try to overtake it … without success … forty miles after they spotted the stolen car … the road clears and the Police overtake and stop them … three schoolboys are arrested … one of them … a passenger … is fourteen … in the past eight months he 's been arrested twenty eight times … the day before he 'd been placed under another supervision order by Milton Keynes Magistrates where he 'd faced charges of robbery and burglary and joy riding … it was from the children 's home he 'd been sent that his two friends picked him up . |
| 20 | ‘ In case one of them 's from the kidnappers . ’ |