Example sentences of "from [pron] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was my work , then when she came down on duty , she would sit one side of the table with her books and I would sit the other and count all the money , you see , then I would take this money er , in a bag , through on to the black through the , past the ticket collector and take it to the booking office and they took it from me and took it when they took their money to the bank , you see . |
| 2 | He swivelled his chair away from me and stared out of the window . |
| 3 | You will take my dyes , my remedies , my secrets away from me and use them for others . |
| 4 | He sat in the seat across the aisle from me and said the cars would be backed into a siding for two days , the engine would be removed and used elsewhere , and there would be a security guard on duty . |
| 5 | All might still have been well , if he had n't , in a desire to make me happier stood away from me and said , " You look lovely . " |
| 6 | He took it from me and put it on the mantelpiece . |
| 7 | ‘ Did n't you see him take it from me and put it inside his own shirt ? |
| 8 | He stopped a little way away from me and fell down on the grass and hid his face in his arms . |
| 9 | She sort of froze for a moment , tried to smile and not smile at the same time , looked uncomprehendingly at me , turned ever so slightly towards the farther side of the road from me and walked away with quick nervous steps . |
| 10 | Begone from me and reflect upon what you have said . |
| 11 | As it happened , I emerged a little late and I fear I rather startled the young gentleman , who immediately pulled his attaché case away from me and clutched it to his chest with both arms . |
| 12 | He pulled up about three yards from me and stuck the boat into full reverse to stop . |
| 13 | ‘ He got away from me and came for me with his fists . |
| 14 | Mrs McDougall , with a quick , concerned look at me , took my basket from me and dumped it on the counter . |
| 15 | He laid the naked red scrap briefly in Effie 's arms , and said abruptly to McAllister , ‘ Let Rose do that while you take the baby from me and find something to wrap it in . |
| 16 | Next time you get a letter from me and feel inclined to belittle my style , remember that the leading journal of the world calls it noble . |
| 17 | Diplomatically , he took the golf bag from me and headed for the car park . |
| 18 | There 's a young woman of 17 who lives just down the road from me and has taken to calling on me of late . |
| 19 | A wooden Scotty-dog with a waggly , leather jointed body nipped my finger , and he snatched it from me and hurled it on to the fire , hitting it repeatedly with the poker until it disintegrated . |
| 20 | He pushed away from me and stood up and stumbled over to a wooden chest , tearing one of its drawers right out so that it crashed to the carpeted floor and a load of jumpers fell out . |
| 21 | When she had a piece within her I said , ‘ Maria , you can turn away from me and sing , because I know you will never be one tiny part of a bar out . ’ |
| 22 | An individual might build a local paper from nothing and retain the ownership intact . |
| 23 | On the left you see the conventional picture of part of the stratigraphical column , with varied sediments , a single small break and fossil records that start from nothing and end as nothing . |
| 24 | He turned away from them and struggled for control . |
| 25 | The three youths waited , debating within themselves whether honour had been satisfied as he took his attention from them and returned it to Marion ; and suddenly , as his eyes burned into her like a couple of lasers , it was as if the two of them stood alone and everything else was just background . |
| 26 | He flung around from them and walked to the end of the room . |
| 27 | Licensed dealers will hold surplus money on deposit from them and take every penny they can . |
| 28 | And he said the boy has been done by Budget for hiring a Sierra from them and taking the engine out |
| 29 | ‘ We devised some pretty crude mechanisms for extracting cash from the operating companies every quarter — we did n't even bother to classify it as dividend or interest or repayment of loans , we just took the cash away from them and told them to manage with less . |
| 30 | He commented on the smell of petrol that came from them and made an elaborate joke of not putting them too close to the flames . |