Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] from [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As long as I remain detached from you , I see your actions as aids or obstacles to mine , as means to my ends . |
| 2 | ‘ I assume you made it worth her while in other ways , but obviously I failed to discover from her own fair lips how much you thought she was worth , and I 'm damned sure you wo n't admit how much you 've paid over the odds for her favours . ’ |
| 3 | I got evicted from my last place I was at . |
| 4 | When bidding farewell to Porua , I tried to extract from him some word of praise for my activities on behalf of his paper . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's not what you thought of me when I tried to run from you in Glenshee . ’ |
| 6 | Well that 's what I want to get from you now if I can . |
| 7 | ‘ If you have a suggestion on how we can improve , I want to hear from you . ’ |
| 8 | All I want to obtain from you is that the information the , that it will not be excluded around about the end , as soon as they take place . |
| 9 | This is not always the case , though — I once had a kestrel that I 'd decided from its plumage was a male and it turned out to be a female , and although this has never happened to me with a barn owl , I know people who 've made that mistake . |
| 10 | so I hope to hear from her this week . |
| 11 | Otherwise , I hope to hear from you whenever you have a moment . |
| 12 | I hope to hear from you . |
| 13 | I also enclose a copy of a letter raising observations on their replies to my Enquiries and I await hearing from them on these points . |
| 14 | With a warm fire , and a hot meal , I began to recover from my unpleasant experiences . |
| 15 | I knew my family would never accept me as a boy or man , so I began to withdraw from them . |
| 16 | My father was never to speak or write to me again , but after a while I began to hear from my mother . |
| 17 | We had to move into the capital afterwards , because we feared they would come back to look for my husband and I began to suffer from my nerves , thinking about all I had seen.They killed my husband in the end , in 1982 . |
| 18 | This is thanks to the help I have received from my wife , my children , and a large number of other people and organizations . |
| 19 | and I , I went paralysed from my toes and |
| 20 | I remembered moving from one to the other , explaining : I am a writer ; the notebooks are what is precious to me . |
| 21 | I think coming from my working-class background , I was frightened of everything that had a vague look of an institution about it . |
| 22 | ‘ I had only returned from a holiday in Dublin and had n't the price of the airline ticket , so I had to borrow from my mum , ’ said Deirdre , who is the mother of a five-year-old daughter , Emma . |
| 23 | I had moved from his shoulder , so he got up and retrieved my hat . |
| 24 | I would never again speak of sin , certainly not to Lili , for one of the messages I had gathered from her speech was that it would bore her . |
| 25 | So the flooding had not been from the lake — which hitherto I had assumed to be the case ; maybe it had come from the river whose bed , now dried , I had seen from my eminence on the hillside . |
| 26 | This included one of the most severe letters I had seen from his pen . |
| 27 | Hewlett , I rashly said I would send him some of the letters I had received from him . |
| 28 | It had come from Eire , but was so like the one I had received from my folk in Somerset , we could hardly believe a Catholic and a Non-Conformist Junior Church magazine could look so much alike . |
| 29 | ’ Come away in and warm yourself , Archie , ’ I said , adopting an idiom I had absorbed from him . |
| 30 | Somewhere in the back of my mind I think maybe I was afraid that they would find you although I had heard from you by that time and knew you could not possibly be there at the bottom of Loch Craig . |