Example sentences of "come [prep] a [adj] family " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who have come from a joint family in India , Pakistan or Bangladesh to live alone with their husbands in Britain suffer most . |
| 2 | I learnt that people think it is very important to have money and to come from a good family . |
| 3 | They were introduced to one another by a woman friend who thought they should get on well in London as Margaret came of a better family and knew the people , and Ivy had the money . |
| 4 | He came of a labouring family and he himself began work in the local cotton industry at the age of ten . |
| 5 | In my case you get pregnant at every verse end , cos I came of a big family you see , mm . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He came from a respectable family . |
| 8 | He , too , came from a Roman family and perhaps in some way had been the patron of the young cardinal deacon of SS . |
| 9 | ‘ I came from a poor family in the countryside and communism gave me a chance for a better life . |
| 10 | If you came from a poor family the only way you could get secondary education was by gaining a scholarship . |
| 11 | Lunia Czechowska came from a prominent family of Polish intellectuals . |
| 12 | The couple met through running when Mota , who came from a sporting family , was just 19 . |
| 13 | He came from a rich family and was very good-looking . |
| 14 | Bentley Drummle came from a rich family living in the country . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Like them he came from a rural family , right outside the westernised professional class . |
| 17 | he told Dr Schäfer of a friend , a fellow student at the University Ballet School , who came from a Coloured family . |
| 18 | Margaret came from a wealthy family , and Richard was anxious to allay any suspicion that he had married for money . |
| 19 | Muhammad Mossadeq came from a wealthy family of landowners who had served a minister to the Cadgers . |
| 20 | He probably , she thought , came from a wealthy family . |
| 21 | The upkeep of such a house would require a substantial income , she thought to herself ; she remembered that Veronica came from a wealthy family . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | Like many German poets of his age , he came from a clerical family and was intended for the church . |
| 25 | She came from a large family of seven children , of whom she was the eldest . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | McGeechan senior came from a large family ; Ian 's mother was an only child . |
| 28 | I mean it was only Margaret 's sister , you see Margaret came from a large family , so there was always |
| 29 | Thus Barbarossa came from a noble family , with a background that suited him to his eventual imperial career . |
| 30 | 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 . |