Example sentences of "[vb past] from a [adj] family " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came from a respectable family . |
| 2 | He , too , came from a Roman family and perhaps in some way had been the patron of the young cardinal deacon of SS . |
| 3 | ‘ I came from a poor family in the countryside and communism gave me a chance for a better life . |
| 4 | If you came from a poor family the only way you could get secondary education was by gaining a scholarship . |
| 5 | Lunia Czechowska came from a prominent family of Polish intellectuals . |
| 6 | The couple met through running when Mota , who came from a sporting family , was just 19 . |
| 7 | He came from a rich family and was very good-looking . |
| 8 | Bentley Drummle came from a rich family living in the country . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Like them he came from a rural family , right outside the westernised professional class . |
| 11 | he told Dr Schäfer of a friend , a fellow student at the University Ballet School , who came from a Coloured family . |
| 12 | Margaret came from a wealthy family , and Richard was anxious to allay any suspicion that he had married for money . |
| 13 | Muhammad Mossadeq came from a wealthy family of landowners who had served a minister to the Cadgers . |
| 14 | He probably , she thought , came from a wealthy family . |
| 15 | The upkeep of such a house would require a substantial income , she thought to herself ; she remembered that Veronica came from a wealthy family . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | Like many German poets of his age , he came from a clerical family and was intended for the church . |
| 19 | She came from a large family of seven children , of whom she was the eldest . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | McGeechan senior came from a large family ; Ian 's mother was an only child . |
| 22 | I mean it was only Margaret 's sister , you see Margaret came from a large family , so there was always |
| 23 | Thus Barbarossa came from a noble family , with a background that suited him to his eventual imperial career . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Mihály Zichy ( 1827–1906 ) came from an ancient family of Hungarian counts . |
| 27 | The victor , John F. Kennedy , came from an Irish-Catholic family . |
| 28 | Mrs Goreng came from an aristocratic family . |
| 29 | It is important here to draw attention to d'Indy 's political and religious beliefs - beliefs remarkably similar to those of the Action Française , an authoritarian , ultra-nationalistic and counter-revolutionary movement formed soon after the Franco-Prussian War.D'Indy came from an aristocratic family and , apart from an early flirtation with Bonapartism , he remained throughout his life an ardent Royalist . |
| 30 | Mr Martin comes to Edinburgh from Basil Blackwell , which he developed from a small family business with sales of under £1 million into a major international publishing group with a turnover of more than £14 million . |