Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] from the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I get all my suits from the movies I 've been in . |
| 2 | I had the sun in my eyes from the windows one side and when I dipped a wing , the stars shining in the other . |
| 3 | My Lord with the greatest respect that that clears my submission from the pleadings , er in the statement of claim . |
| 4 | It 's the first time in all my life I 've been able to see the back of my nails from the palms of my hands . ’ |
| 5 | My gift from the gods . |
| 6 | I love my constituency and will do all I can to advance the interests of my constituents from the backbenches . |
| 7 | When I cross the courtyard my friend from the shadows intercepts , like I knew he would . |
| 8 | I give as good an impression of a drunk as I ever will , but when someone calls my name from the shadows I spin to face the darkness where he stands . |
| 9 | A number of concerned people have contacted me over the past few weeks over my absence from the pages of Shooting Gallery . |
| 10 | I remember that miracle , so easy to forget , that separates my life from the fates of the suburban furies . |
| 11 | ‘ Did you pick up my tompaw from the stores Bill ? ’ |
| 12 | 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 … |
| 13 | At first they climbed to the heights to look down on Nature or to survey the scene — encouraging the building of ‘ stations ’ such as the Windermere Octagon ; but after Thomas Gray 's Journal of a Tour in the Lakes ( written in 1769 ) artists began to take their views from the valleys . |
| 14 | EVER since Greece won its freedom from the Turks in the 1820s — no , ever since the Turks took Constantinople on that black Tuesday at the end of May in 1453 — the Greeks have had a Megali Idea , a Great Idea . |
| 15 | Other brat-pack designers , notably Michael Kors , Isaac Mizrahi and Marc Jacobs ( designing under the Perry Ellis label ) , take their notes from the clothes worn in the late Fifties and early Sixties by Audrey Hepburn , Jackie Kennedy and Doris Day ( as dressed by Norell in That Touch of Mink ) . |
| 16 | UK Gold is the new satellite and cable station that is n't coy about where it has got all its programmes from the archives . |
| 17 | I think basically having having heard the argument put forward from from both sides what what we 're really talking about is a is a policy that in in terms of its support from the districts it depends whether or not any particular district council might have such a use for the policy . |
| 18 | The ambassador tried to explain what he knew of the sources of unrest and said he thought the mullahs were getting their money from the merchants in the bazaars , not from the CIA . |
| 19 | In the centuries preceding the scientific renaissance in the West , Muslim scholars did far more than merely reproduce their heritage from the Greeks . |
| 20 | Those members of the public who have not had an opportunity to experience contact with the mentally handicapped except in the most superficial way inevitably draw their opinions from the concepts portrayed in the mass media and , above all , from what they see on television . |
| 21 | The company , based at Ms Gordon 's home in Walthamstow , generates its income from the companies and pays the agency for supplying the successful applicant . |
| 22 | Tenants are required to purchase all liquor , soft drinks and bar items such as crisps and tobacco from Palatine , though at a discount , and they are expected to make their living from the profits after deduction of rent ( paid to Palatine ) , wages , rates , lighting and heating , etc . |
| 23 | Ultimately , however , directives and rules derive their force from the considerations which justify them . |
| 24 | Emboldened by their mandate from the voters , the parties challenged de Gaulle at every turn . |
| 25 | He could recognize their trades from the clothes they were wearing — dyers , carpenters , wheelwrights , masons , stevedores up from the docks , and several cordwainers : the spikes in their hands looked like daggers . |
| 26 | Jane collects her images from the cliffs , the hills , the water , the woods and valleys of this area and interprets through rock forms and natural forms like bark , shells and stones which she finds around . |
| 27 | They lifted their heads from the stones and squinted , as if they 'd only been half aware of interlopers . |
| 28 | Neither would she be shouting about their liaison from the rooftops . |
| 29 | Knowing their speed from the films and their weight and limb lengths , McMahon found that the configuration of motion in human walking perfectly matched what he had predicted from 19th-century physics . |
| 30 | And at one point , showing how the books were formed into the New Testament by the early Church , the report expressed the belief that God gave the early Church its three gifts of ordering of the New Testament , creeds like the apostles ' creed , and the ministry of bishops in their succession from the apostles . |