Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adj] [noun pl] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among them are outstanding objects from the Olmec , Aztec and Maya civilisations including a turquoise Aztec mosaic mask in the form of two intertwined rattlesnakes , painted codices from pre-Hispanic times , among them the Codex Zouche , stone architectural fragments from Mayan sites and jades from the Olmec period . |
| 2 | ‘ I was 10 minutes from the title , ’ he said ruefully afterwards . |
| 3 | I was 300 yards from home in a restaurant and had only used my car anyway because it was pouring with rain . |
| 4 | This means you are 47 miles from mile 0 . |
| 5 | His strong belief that she was withholding things from him did , after all , have some basis in fact . |
| 6 | We are twelve miles from the border agreed to in 1925 between the British and the Irish . |
| 7 | ‘ We 're 45 minutes from town , so , after training there 's not a great deal on the agenda . |
| 8 | Sorry I 've kept Martin , but we 're old friends from Manchester . |
| 9 | for safety — we 're 40 miles from a hospital : |
| 10 | The rescue helicopter still had n't arrived when we were fifteen miles from the coast and Warton gave me Blackpool 's frequency and wished me good day ’ . |
| 11 | We were ten minutes from the airport when a jete flew overhead and the pilot said : ‘ Welcome to Alexandria ’ . |
| 12 | Scrawled on a wall behind her are various titles from the ‘ Homebrew ’ album : ‘ Twisted ’ , ‘ Buddy X ’ , ‘ Trout ’ . |
| 13 | The supposition that Theunis — or maybe his father — invented the name Krankoor shortly before emigrating comes from the fact that no surviving Krankoors , nor records of such a family , have come to light in Holland ; two Crankos live in The Hague but they are recent arrivals from South Africa . |
| 14 | Barth introduces seven correspondents , or rather reintroduces them since they are all figures from his earlier works , and Barth himself is projected into the fiction as an updated form of ‘ Mr. B. ’ , Pamela 's seducer in Richardson 's novel . |
| 15 | They are illiterate coolies from Canton mostly , emigrating to Cochin-China . |
| 16 | They 're all characters from Britain 's longest running Soap Opera , the Archers : a nightly addiction for hundreds of thousands of people not only in Britain but throughout the world . |
| 17 | They 're intelligent letters from women saying they like my series . |
| 18 | I have had more submissions than he said about South Ayrshire , but mostly they were tear-out strips from newspapers and from people who had been — |
| 19 | Although they had no special interest in meteorites , the geologists collected the specimens and shipped them to Japan , assuming they were all pieces from a single meteorite shower . |
| 20 | He said that they were professional witnesses from London , explaining that , if a prosecution lawyer was having difficulty in obtaining a conviction , he would handsomely reward a witness who would state under oath that he had seen the crime committed . |
| 21 | Dot did n't like it when Mrs Parvis spoke in this way , as though they were dusty victims from under the rubble . |
| 22 | They were senior captains from the flagship of Everard 's coasting fleet and they were somewhat surprised to learn that we had a flagship too . |
| 23 | They were 15 minutes from a battling victory at St James ' Park and seemed to be riding tremendous pressure when referee Steve Bell stepped in to award the Division One high-fliers a spot kick . |
| 24 | This was a particularly dangerous practice at this station as trains approaching on the down line could not be seen until they were 40 yards from the station due to a bend and a road bridge . |
| 25 | Said Jacklin : " I guess they were empty words from Ray . |
| 26 | By this time they were several miles from Humberside and , the climb completed , they loosened the formation and Spencer scanner the cockpit . |
| 27 | They were 270 kilometres from the Pole . |
| 28 | They were ten yards from the vehicle . |
| 29 | They were ten miles from Bath when they reached the village of Chilcompton , remarkable for a beautiful stream which bordered the village street on one side and which abounded with trout and eels . |
| 30 | The figure that I have is about 800 submissions , but most of them were tear-out strips from newspapers . |