Example sentences of "[pron] from another " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we speak to a child , or to someone from another culture , we can easily estimate this knowledge incorrectly . |
| 2 | But I preferred to think that you were … well , you know … someone from another planet . |
| 3 | And even if someone from another age is standing on this spot , a ghostly paintbrush in her hand , her eyes would n't see what I see . |
| 4 | ‘ So it 's someone from another part of town . ’ |
| 5 | Gin had been the great popular comfort of Paradise Street in her childhood , gin and tea , so she took it as someone from another background might have made a dish of bread and milk . |
| 6 | The solicitor detached himself from another group and joined them . |
| 7 | The Miller , in his tale , re-emerges in the target figure that superficially seems meant to represent the Reeve ; the Reeve then retrospectively identifies himself with a trickster and target figure : the trickster who makes a fool of the character supposed to represent him but who is subsequently made a fool of himself from another quarter . |
| 8 | A driver had wrenched himself from another machine and was running back . |
| 9 | I ca n't wait for you any longer , especially when I consider how long it might take to extricate you from another relationship if I give you time and you use it to involve yourself with Jones or whoever else you might have in mind … |
| 10 | If the March crisis over missile modernisation now seems something from another era , so too do the fears of the summer . |
| 11 | He was so very familiar on the streets of the town , with that zipped yellow jacket and his jeans , yet be looked like something from another world in the garden . |
| 12 | ‘ And you , a man of science , believe that the creature is supernatural — something from another world ? ’ asked Holmes . |
| 13 | Ellen would lie in bed at night watching the objects on the mantelpiece in the glow from the street light , hoping they would move again : that something from another world would intervene , give her a clue as to the nature of her existence . |
| 14 | But I remember with Chris especially — he did n't seem human — ’ she smiled quickly , forestalling Alan 's amused interruption ’ — but like something from another planet . |
| 15 | In composing the Rhapsody , Rachmaninov tried to vary the Paganini theme as much as possible by differentiating the instrumental sections one from another . |
| 16 | For his part , he can not ‘ abstract one from another , or conceive separately , those qualities which it is impossible should exist so separated ’ . |
| 17 | The conscious use of analogy , metaphor , playing a hunch , brainstorming , sheer chance , trial and error or heuristics are the stuff of the think tank , where lively minds , well versed in vertical thinking , strike imaginative sparks one from another . |
| 18 | I can often discover our different species of Oaks , one from another , by their form of growth , half or a whole mile distance ; and I am sure he must be very sharp-sighted that can know them , at half that distance , by their leaves , acorns , and cups , all together . |
| 19 | They do not know one from another . |
| 20 | We travelled the countryside by day and by night in buses , and were tumbled out of them in the blackout to grope our way ‘ home ’ through streets which , in their uniform monotony , were hardly distinguishable one from another , our torches , with their regulation double layer of tissue-paper over the bulb , showing like grounded fireflies in the intense darkness . |
| 21 | But because mountain peaks require specialist flora and fauna , and are often separate one from another , they also to some extent resemble islands ; and indeed , they have been called ‘ sky islands ’ . |
| 22 | Our physical bodies and subtle structures separate us , one from another . |
| 23 | They are the same size , have the same green skin , and overall it would be hard to tell one from another were it not for their distinctive styles of dress and skin painting . |
| 24 | The members of each set are distinguished one from another by what are fairly well known , the different theories of the nature of probability , all of them consistent with the Probability Calculus . |
| 25 | His days were barely distinguishable one from another . |
| 26 | ( Cowper : The Task ) Individual dog-whelks , like those of all other sexually-reproducing species , vary one from another . |
| 27 | This can hardly be said for composers such as Webern , whose fifty-odd songs have accompaniments which are almost undistinguishable one from another and are certainly unmemorable . |
| 28 | My kids have plenty of friends , and I ca n't tell one from another , or remember their names . |
| 29 | It should be plain that the making of a classification scheme by this process involves analysis , as single concepts must be identified and distinguished one from another . |
| 30 | His rooms differed little , one from another . |