Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [was/were] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I guessed you were from the first , and the fact that you could quite happily and openly go away with him for a weekend everyone would know about confirmed that I was right . |
| 2 | The Labour leader said that in her supposed splendid isolation from Europe , Margaret Thatcher showed she was from the Greta Garbo school of diplomacy . |
| 3 | Checks revealed they were from the infected zone . |
| 4 | Checks revealed they were from the infected zone . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm terribly sorry , I thought you were from the British Committee . |
| 6 | Everyone knew we were from the prison , they stared at us . |
| 7 | ‘ You said you were from the Ministry . ’ |
| 8 | He said you were from the Home Office . |
| 9 | She said she was from the American magazine , Leaders of Mankind . |
| 10 | She said she was from the |
| 11 | The last one said it was from the Editor . |
| 12 | The third , in a voice like a cross buzzard 's , said he was from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . |
| 13 | He said he was from the Harrow Road Station but had only recently been transferred there from West End Central . |