Example sentences of "they [was/were] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The farther away they were from the centre of authority the easier it was . |
| 2 | And they 'd been down the Lake District , they were from the Lake district . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They were from the Lord Provost of Glasgow . |
| 5 | They were from the North of England , working-class , unemployed but it was thought only temporarily . |
| 6 | He declined to give any personal details about the pair apart from saying they were from the United Kingdom . |
| 7 | They said in the shop that the men who did it had been pretending to take up paving stones — nobody thought anything because it looked as if they were from the Council . ’ |
| 8 | And I they were addressed to him and they were from the council and I simply said , er wrote on the outside erm no longer here , address not known . |
| 9 | In verses 5 and 6 Peter makes direct reference to the flood of judgment which came upon the earth in the days of Noah and at the end of the preceding verse 4 he writes of how the scoffers will say that ‘ all things continue as they were from the beginning of the CREATION . ’ |
| 10 | It is felt that the persons responsible are in fact local , although both youths stated that they were from the Nottingham area . |
| 11 | They did this over two weeks , but there was no means of knowing the energies of the neutrons , the essential information that would tell them whether they were from the fusion of deuterium and be the final proof . |