Example sentences of "he [was/were] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean that 's a , a thing that er I remember seeing a TV documentary and there was this bloke , I du n no if he was from the Terence Higgins Trust , I do n't think so , but erm er anyway he was going on about this , this very thing that there 's often the homophobic imagination er has this sort of slippage between you know , consenting adult activity and if you 're gay , if you 're homosexual then this probably means that you 're also interested in seducing children , you 're also interested in sado-masochistic activity er you 're also interested in , you know , a whole variety of other , you know , things which |
| 2 | He was from the Sheffield and was followed by an officer from the staff of the operations ship of Admiral Woodward , who was accompanied by his wife and little daughter . |
| 3 | He was from the south side of the dale , which by custom went to Cotherstone , whilst we on our side went to Romaldkirk . |
| 4 | She took a look at this man before her and summed him up in five seconds flat : he was from the country ; he was perspiring because he was wearing his one and only suit which was too heavy for the weather ; his shoes were outrageous , huge , clod-hopping things , but at least they had been polished ; his hands were heavy , his fingers thick as sausages so he was definitely a man of the land ; despite all that , he was quite polite and well-spoken though with a strong accent that she could identify as being Scottish but from which part of Scotland she could not say ; for some reason she was quite sure he was a liar . |
| 5 | Nobbs wrote Reggie Perrin because ‘ he was from the world I knew , we were from Kent , my father got the 8.16 to Cannon Street every day , ’ but he wrote Henry Pratt because ‘ it was the early '80s , Thatcher had taken over and I knew her politics would create a more divided nation . |
| 6 | He was from the leisure office looking after the . |
| 7 | She 'd known what sort of man he was from the start . |
| 8 | He said he was from the Harrow Road Station but had only recently been transferred there from West End Central . |
| 9 | He came to the door , said he was standing as a candidate , but did n't say he was from the BNP . |