Example sentences of "from [noun prp] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our pilot was said to be the best on the river , but every now and then there was a shudder as we touched a sandbank ; and there was so little water coming down from Aswan that we only squeezed through the lock at Nag Hammadi by all the passengers crowding into the bows of the Nefertari , while her crew hauled on ropes , chanting a shanty that might have been sung on the sunboats of the pharaohs . |
| 2 | We played badminton and sang folk songs , but we knew as we wept and prayed with refugees from Czechoslovakia that it would not be long before we were asked to make even the supreme sacrifice to stop , if we could , the Nazi menace . |
| 3 | Boasts from DEC that its Alpha RISC is at least 1,000 times scalable , are beginning to look like pure hubris : maybe they might be able to snap eight processors together on a bus eventually , but reportedly all its got now is four and supposedly that 's not working too well . |
| 4 | It was from Magda that we heard early in September that a British Sunday newspaper had reported that an Iranian with close links to Hezbollah had said in Beirut that I was to be released immediately . |
| 5 | It was on the rebound from Higginbotham that she took up with the first boy that she came near to liking . |
| 6 | Other wines difficult to beat at the price include three wonderfully good dry whites from Hungary that I 'll be writing about later . |
| 7 | Sir Anthony Browne reported from Surrey that he would have thought it hard to get the money in so quickly had he not experienced the goodwill of the people ; and Sir Thomas Darcy claimed that men were actually saying , ‘ if this be too little his Grace shall have more ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ And I gather from Jeff that I was right . ’ |
| 9 | The independence referendum had provoked warnings from Gorbachev that it would lead to a breakup of the Union and hence disaster . |
| 10 | Well that , that boat from Evesham that we went out on a couple a years ago it had a fish finder on it . |
| 11 | I knew from Rex that his work in Swindon had mystified his contemporaries , so , when you turned up , the one man who might know all about it , it seemed an opportunity too good to miss . ’ |
| 12 | Erm , again a suggestion from Richard that he feel , that we feel we need a new , a procedure for creating a procedure . |
| 13 | England manager Graham Taylor names his squad for Spain next Tuesday — and Gascoigne 's inclusion will be accompanied by a request from Lazio that he does not play more than 15 minutes . |
| 14 | Fribble started to speak again , but received such a blazing look from Fael-Inis that he subsided . |
| 15 | Later that night , after I had returned to Venturous , we received the signal from Falmouth that our suspect had sailed . |
| 16 | ‘ I gather from Noakes that it was crouching in a gateway . ’ |
| 17 | Elsewhere , the close-up , detailed approach which works brilliantly , say , for Imogen Stubbs 's affecting Desdemona ( the pathos of her disoriented , jittery jauntiness intensified by beautiful touches such as the sepia photograph of her estranged father she keeps on the bedside table in Cyprus or the chocolates from Casio that she has secreted in a locked draw , not because she fears sexual misconstruction but because she would like to be thought too grown-up for frivolous sweet-guzzling by Othello ) paradoxically diminishes Iago because it encourages the belief that he can be realistically ‘ explained ’ like a figure in a novel . |
| 18 | Michael sniggered behind Moran as soon as they were on the road together but it drew such a quelling look from Maggie that he went quiet . |
| 19 | The SD station at Kitzingen in Lower Franconia , for example , which in its special report directly on the speech had declared that ‘ the rumours about the Führer are presumably disposed of ’ mentioned in its regular report a few days later that some workers had been heard saying that , from the speed and tone of voice , it had not been the Führer himself , but a substitute who had spoken , and Hitler himself had suffered such a shock from Stalingrad that he had to be kept under closely guarded house arrest on the Obersalzberg . |
| 20 | I understand from Simon that you had been in touch regarding your proposal . |
| 21 | Ukraine 's and Moldova 's refusal to sign this agreement led to threats from Russia that they would be treated as foreign countries . |
| 22 | They then lost Gatting , who had been in better form than anyone , in the first one-day international when his nose exploded after coming into contact with a ball from Marshall that he failed to hook . |
| 23 | Arthur liked her very much , and when he heard from Fred that she was going into hospital overnight to have a minor operation he packed her room with flowers and clownish notes . |
| 24 | The situation was especially serious in the Harer and Ogaden areas , where UN relief operations were suspended in late May until June 15 ; on June 21 the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees announced from Geneva that it had begun a food airlift to 80,000 people stranded near Gode in the southern Ogaden . |
| 25 | I accept from Mr that she would have been a trainee manager for some part of that time and I assess her salary as being something like seven thousand pounds net . |
| 26 | I have an indication from Mr that he wishes to speak . |
| 27 | Despite assurances from GM that it would maintain the British content of Land Rover vehicles at existing levels , considerable unease was felt by many politicians . |
| 28 | Yes , well Tony Primmer 's one of the riders from Eastbourne that we managed to pick up because we can get him in on a low point average . |
| 29 | There are one or two areas where I remained confused but I 'm pleased to hear from Mrs that we 're going to get some more information on milestones and growth because I looked at appendix B and thought well , yes , that tells me something but not a great deal . |
| 30 | ‘ We know from Sweden that they play with a lot of spirit and determination but that they play fair as well . ’ |