Example sentences of "from [pos pn] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None has arrived but if his death took place as I saw the angel pass I would not hear from my sister Ellen for some time . |
| 2 | ‘ One German in particular , a Major Kuntz , actually remembered me operating from my Bofors Gun position all those years ago ’ . |
| 3 | This gives an annual opportunity for me to get up to dates with Fordyce Maxwell of The Scotsman , an old friend from my Berwick days , at the preliminaries . |
| 4 | But all this is hindsight : it is a series of thoughts and feelings which sprang from a visit on a painful occasion ( my mother 's funeral ) , and not from my childhood experience of childhood itself . |
| 5 | And that meant a lot to me at the time because all the paintings I was doing were subjects from my childhood years . |
| 6 | From my childhood days it was little more than a map , a puzzling weaver , a many tailed whip in the hands of the north wind . |
| 7 | Flaky pastry from my Banbury cake cascaded on to my knees . |
| 8 | The trolley had been pushed a few feet away and my handbag removed from my shopping bag . |
| 9 | I did allow myself a Metastim tablet from my belt pouch , but even its effect was minimal , and temporary . |
| 10 | Once the channel tunnel is built , from my Manchester constituency alone , seven freight trains a night will leave Trafford Park for Europe . |
| 11 | And he had seen me walking from my hotel apartment with Dana — Americano , he said disdainfully . |
| 12 | From my hotel window I had watched the tiny procession bearing its little donkey aloft , then seen the children sweep the streets with the palms , startling a piglet from a gutter . |
| 13 | By my first week in-country ( my third on mefloquine ) I had reduced sensation in my legs , was waking up with a start from severe nightmares which subjectively had lasted for hours ( in reality for only 15 min ) , and occasionally wondering what it would be like to jump the eight floors from my hotel room . |
| 14 | GEMS FROM MY TICKET COLLECTION |
| 15 | EVEN MORE GEMS FROM MY TICKET COLLECTION |
| 16 | ‘ You did Celia a favour — she deserved it , I suppose , but you parted me from my twin sister without a single qualm . |
| 17 | ‘ I felt numb from the neck upwards , which is the ideal way to play this game , ’ he said , ‘ and I had a little lesson yesterday from my friend David Jones . ’ |
| 18 | Like all British officials of the Egyptian Government I had been dismissed from my university post eighteen months before , and I was glad that the British Council was able to offer me a small post in Athens , instead of piece work in Cairo . |
| 19 | Then we found a small house about one hundred yards from my university department . |
| 20 | But because I work during the week , Saturday is the only time I have , apart from my lunch hour . |
| 21 | from my vantage point I saw nothing in the few seconds between the County Inspector 's announcement to have incited what appeared to be a concerted start by the police . |
| 22 | I had just seen Dad and another man carrying a tool box to safety when a loud shout from a policeman sent me scurrying back from my vantage point . |
| 23 | At the end of the pitch I ran out of strength and quick draws at the same time , and this seemed a legitimate excuse to frig about , rest and admire the superb view from my vantage point high on the mountain . |
| 24 | U From my vantage point I could see through the railings into the front garden where Shep was slinking noiselessly into position beneath the stones . |
| 25 | They remained as they were ; in some fashion they were communing , and I could sense from my vantage point the necessity that linked them . |
| 26 | Still , I 've accepted advice from my film star chums , who are more used to this than I am , I now have my mail and phone calls intercepted . |
| 27 | From my angle Edward and I were now firm friends . |
| 28 | I had a fine view from my sitting-room window . |
| 29 | Next I listened to the recent EMI disc comprising Dvořák 's American and Smetana 's From my life Quartets performed by the Alban Berg Quartet . |
| 30 | ‘ I usually travel with an assistant from my management company and she does the same so we look a fine pair , both of us sitting there with dozens of jars in front of us , but it does the trick ; it takes my mind off the fact that we are 30,000 feet in the air at the time . |