Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] from the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I drank my coffee and listened while you talked about the Government 's commitment to looking at the quality of life you should be working towards for our people ( or that we should be working towards for your people — I am not quite sure whether your use of the words ‘ we ’ and ‘ our ’ included me or not ) ; but before I could raise the questions that remained in my mind from the night before — let alone my new uncertainty as to what exactly was meant by the expression ‘ the quality of life ’ — a young man had come in and murmured something to you about ‘ the Governor ’ and ‘ the Bank ’ . |
| 2 | Little darts stuck into my legs from the knee down . |
| 3 | Well I used to run my business from the teashop in and I ha they put phones and everything in for at the corner table . |
| 4 | ‘ The only blessing about my absence from the side recently is that owner Sam Hammam has not had to pay me my goal bonuses ! ’ |
| 5 | He lifted and transferred my soul from the depths up to the heights , so that I ardently longed for the pleasures of heaven more than I had ever delighted in physical embrace or worldly corruption … |
| 6 | However many of the group 's participants were extremely disappointed that the Chairmen of the Welsh Development Agency and the Development Board for Rural Wales withdrew their support from the statement just before its publication , despite their officers having contributed fully to its preparation . |
| 7 | It has been argued that , as newly privatised companies will be responsible for obtaining their investment from the market rather than from the government , the PSBR will fall . |
| 8 | However , this implicitly assumes that the investor may be able to reinvest the dividend for the same return at a lower risk than the firm ( or for a higher return for the same risk ) which , given the asymmetry of information , can not be the case unless the firm itself has an inferior investment policy , in which case the investor would be advised to withdraw his or her investment from the firm completely . |
| 9 | In fact , several of the warnings were from colleagues at the centre who had withdrawn their association from the centre early last year . |
| 10 | A reputable agency will advise you on the wording and placing of your advertisement and may even take its fee from the newspaper not from the client . |
| 11 | They take their name from the place where in Genesis ‘ Jacob wrestled with the Lord ’ and are a group deeply concerned about ethical , social , and international issues . |
| 12 | Obsessed with Siti , the youngest , he stole her sarong from the bank so that she could n't fly back to the stars with her startled sisters . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , I do know , ’ she said , rising to collect her things from the kitchen where she had left them , ‘ but I have no intention of obliging the Master further , either now , or in the future . ’ |
| 14 | But their distance from the point where contact is directly made between teaching and learning is important . |
| 15 | In the mortgage deed the respondents further covenanted that they would purchase all their requirements from the appellants exclusively . |
| 16 | Suddenly I stepped out into her path from the gateway where I had been waiting . |
| 17 | In order to simplify access to the data , a set of computer programs enables prospective users of the data not only to obtain data , but to tailor their excerpts from the database precisely to their own requirements . |
| 18 | Many of those that are dissatisfied with state education quietly withdraw their children from the system rather than campaign for improvements . |
| 19 | Ngo Van Loc instinctively eased his foot from the accelerator again , but Jacques Devraux lifted his open hand in a gesture of admonishment and leaned across to press the horn in the canter of the steering wheel . |
| 20 | Grabbing his bike from the hedge where he 'd hidden it , Jack raced with all his might , his long , gangling legs pumping for all they were worth . |
| 21 | Corbett picked up his cloak from the floor where he had tossed it . |
| 22 | Niall took his eyes from the road long enough to glance in her direction . |
| 23 | Kirov averted his eyes from the photograph abruptly . |
| 24 | He told a parliamentary committee in 1840 that once the money was received and the Chinese buyer got his opium from the ships offshore , then it was the buyer 's business what became of the opium . |
| 25 | At last he joined her , shaking the water from his hair and grabbing his towel from the rails where he had left it . |
| 26 | This , combined with an impeccable knowledge of his business from the bottom up he worked as a lift fitter 's mate for a year and the quality of the Pickerings product are the reasons that the company should see off the imminent dip in profits . |
| 27 | Middlesex are expected to announce his retirement from the game today . |
| 28 | Then put your other arm right down in his sleeve from the top as far as you can until you can grasp the rope . |
| 29 | Vincent waded into his father with such anger that his expulsion from the house inevitably followed : such grossness was an offence to the fragile truce they were only just sustaining . |
| 30 | His name had not been mentioned to her at all yet she knew his name from the description straight away . |