Example sentences of "[pers pn] come [prep] [art] [adj] family " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my case you get pregnant at every verse end , cos I came of a big family you see , mm . |
| 2 | ‘ I came from a poor family in the countryside and communism gave me a chance for a better life . |
| 3 | ‘ Because I come from a booky family , in some ways I 've taken writing for granted — it 's like coming from a family of butchers and going into the meat trade . |
| 4 | I come from a Jewish family which includes victim 's ; that picture of myself was a particularly horrible one . |
| 5 | I come from a military family , that is to say a family that has always followed the drum , and probably had to carry it too . |
| 6 | If you came from a poor family the only way you could get secondary education was by gaining a scholarship . |
| 7 | In fact my own wife , she came of a big family and and she had to look after most of the the younger children until they started work you see and then it was the next one that had to look after them again you see and so on , and that 's how it went on . |
| 8 | Lucille Castineau had lived all her twenty-seven years in the Norman countryside and , though she came from a noble family , she proudly considered herself to be a farm woman . |
| 9 | She came from a large family of seven children , of whom she was the eldest . |
| 10 | She came from a large family , and it must be supposed that her mother or one of her sisters helped to care for the children while she was at work . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Do you come from a big family ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Do you come from a large family , Maura ? ’ |
| 14 | Did you come from a musical family ? |
| 15 | You come from a musical family … |
| 16 | When you come from a big family , as I do , erm yo you can have any size of wedding as long as the right people are there , anybody gets excluded it 's er to be horrendous ! |
| 17 | Anne ‘ s quick wit made her popular and one of the women said admiringly , ‘ You can tell you come from a big family , girl , the way you come out with the wisecracks . ’ |
| 18 | Her real name is Karen and she comes from a wealthy family in the south of England . |
| 19 | Although they come from the same family as the more familiar Corydoras , they differ in both body shape and breeding habit . |
| 20 | Our Stella says the lad who butted him comes from a well-to-do family . ’ |
| 21 | He came of a labouring family and he himself began work in the local cotton industry at the age of ten . |
| 22 | He came from a respectable family . |
| 23 | Like them he came from a rural family , right outside the westernised professional class . |
| 24 | He came from a cricketing family — his father was a leading fast bowler in Antigua — and his great talent was evident very early on , so that he was already popular with the fans as a youngster . |
| 25 | He came from a rich family and was very good-looking . |
| 26 | Banging the table , he shouted ‘ order ’ , and continuing in English — to the amazement of members — he said he came from a noble family in Normandy and in Normandy , they were used to doing things in an orderly way . |
| 27 | ‘ He came from a military family — his father rose quite high in the Navy — so he was as undisciplined in his life as he could be . |
| 28 | Like many German poets of his age , he came from a clerical family and was intended for the church . |
| 29 | Much of his youth was spent in Clermont , a city where the latter had been bishop , and his mentor there was Avitus , whose name indicates that he came from the same family as Sidonius 's father-in-law . |
| 30 | He comes from a musical family and might be faced with a difficult decision before he is much older . |