Example sentences of "[verb] to [pers pn] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our thanks go to Mrs Margaret ( Peggy ) Kaye , a member of the Fareham Branch , and an ex-pat WAAF , who writes to us from Orlando , Florida to tell us of a moving memorial service that took place at Arcadia , Florida on 27 May 1991 . |
| 2 | Mrs Billy Bond writes to us from Forest Row , East Sussex to say that most knitting machine shops are run by friendly and helpful people but Knitmates is outstanding . |
| 3 | The system enables users to collate information downloaded to them from point-of-sale laptop systems and also to act as a point of information transfer between staff in the field and the head office . |
| 4 | With this in mind , Neal Taylor has written to me from South Devon with a request for a simple battery indicator . |
| 5 | Early in 1943 Leslie had written to me from North Africa : ‘ I had the unusual experience of seeing a Messerschmitt 110 shot down by A.A. fire not 100 feet above my head . |
| 6 | We move to Croydon in Surrey now , Mrs E has written to us from Croydon , Elizabeth . |
| 7 | Whatsoever of thought or feeling came to him from England , or by way of English culture , his mind stood armed against in obedience to a password , and of the world that lay beyond England he knew only the Foreign Legion of France in which he spoke of serving . |
| 8 | Lothar immediately sent emissaries into the regna assigned to Charles " so that they [ i.e. leading men there ] should not accept Charles 's lordship " , while Lothar himself moved south-east " to receive those who came to him from Provence " . |
| 9 | There was one which came to me from America which said , ‘ Alan Bates plays his part in a style which makes Bela Lugosi seem a master of nuance . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I thought he came to us from Hong Kong that time ? |
| 11 | When Sid Boyling gave us the light and waved us on , I read my brief prepared introduction and Mr Murray began : ‘ My friends , I speak to you from Melachusetuck , the old Indian name for Moose Jaw , and it is my pleasure to visit the studios of CHAB , your own community station , which your loyal support and encouragement over the years has made possible . |
| 12 | He 's talked to me from time to time . |
| 13 | On our retreat in the last year of school , a visiting priest talked to us from Sister Superior 's throne . |
| 14 | But one thing I can tell you about Port Vale , the ground has vastly changed from last season , the terracing 's been improved , their seating , it 's pure luxury apart from the press box , because I still have to climb that suspect wooden ladder , and perched on top of the main stand is a shed where I 'm speaking to you from Jane . |
| 15 | As a whole , in spite of the splendour of much of the singing , this ca n't quite replace present recommendations , particularly those in the historic field , but I am sure it thrilled the audience in the Suntory Hall a year ago and I shall return to it from time to time for its visceral force and its sense of a tension well sustained . |
| 16 | Madam Deputy Speaker I only wanted to make a short intervention er er on this point and I think I will return to it from time to time because it is a perennial , annual problem of every time the minister introduces a a rule and regulation we can understand it 's extremely useful and how can one say that er regulations about fraud are not useful , it 's just the culture of our country has been besieged by these rules and regulations and I 'm surprised that anybody can actually make any profit or do any business simply because of the weight of officialdom and the weight of rules and regulations which prevents them from getting above er the the surface . |
| 17 | An example , already known to you from examples 2.7.2 is given in the following exercises . |
| 18 | They are coming to us from Dieppe . ’ |
| 19 | There was great scope we saw for matching marketing , the due diligence product outside er Manchester area er that has been particularly successful we are going to have , well all of you are probably aware of of a significant increase in the in the of due dili due diligence work er very encouraging that er most of it I think I 'm right in saying has come , certainly the bigger ones have come from out with the region er and have been introduced to us from bankers er in London , er initially we 've had er a lot of support from our er colleagues in London who 've effected the introductions in the first place , precisely how the partnership virtually work . |
| 20 | Talk to them from Monday about the trade figures due out on Thursday . |
| 21 | The radiator followed three months later , and the exhaust was in place by September — as were the flying instruments/gauges/compass which we had shipped to us from Florida . |
| 22 | A nobleman 's son will have a " slave " of his own age assigned to him from birth , who will later attend school with him in Makassar , and sometimes even university in distant Jakarta . |
| 23 | Mr Rumback either read to them from books , which no-one heard because the words got caught in his big moustache , or slept . |
| 24 | He read to me from Brendan Behan 's The Borstal Boy . |
| 25 | Whether this actually demonstrates anything is debatable — we all have antibodies to Candida because we are exposed to it from birth , and a positive response to an intradermal test is seen in some healthy individuals . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , as Ladbrokes shortened Nashwan 's odds for next Sunday 's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe from 2-1 to 7-4 with a run , French Glory came down a point to 7-1 amid rumours that Pat Eddery would switch to him from Khalid Abdullah 's other probable runner , Assatis . |
| 27 | The ones he sent to me from Spain ? |
| 28 | ‘ Thank goodness you 're back ’ said one of the clerks who had been seconded to us from County Hall . |
| 29 | But it was for the lock from the people , you know and he , he got round like this , and this is the God 's truth as well again , he 'd come to me from America and er they , I had to make locks for certain people they called them statos , status symbols there , in their own houses , you know , where they put this lock on and anybody as he 's got one like that , you know and from America to Dick in Willenhall to make them . |
| 30 | She would write to her from London . ) |