Example sentences of "it [be] a [noun] from [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 We would n't have been passing the church except that we called in to collect Maggie Sullivan and it 's a shortcut from her place to the Feathers . ’
2 I do not like the mobile , but it is a present from my new sister so I pretend .
3 It is a message from our Higher Self .
4 It was a present from his mum … hours later Les , 17 , and his 3 mates were dead
5 It was a present from my mother . ’
6 Then driving to the house in Donegal in her pea-green Polo Fox ( ‘ I did n't choose the colour , it was a present from my daddy ’ ) she admitted , with amusement , she did not have a real idea what Parr did , and did not care a jot .
7 Wilkinson was reluctant to get involved in the controversy but countered : ‘ It was a goal from my head . ’
8 Her husband found her one day wearing a rose pinned to her gown that was not from his garden , and guessed it was a gift from her lover .
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