Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , where it cut the highway , the steep bank of the river would give them protection from the full force of the hurricane . |
| 2 | I went to a meeting and they asked if I would try to get them contacts from the West , ’ said Mrs Charlton . |
| 3 | Pictures of the gate were shown to the court and several witnesses have been recalled , among them inspectors from the from the RSPCA which brought the charges . |
| 4 | In common with any other community , the Deaf Community has had its share of people who have performed deeds of bravery that earned them recognition from the appropriate authorities . |
| 5 | The RCD won 3,750 council seats while the remaining 34 went to independents , most of them defectors from the RCD . |
| 6 | And , perhaps , with this act of treachery I can finally buy my freedom from the burden of buried horror that bound me to Andy twenty years ago , so that — dispossessed of that trespass — I 'm left free to betray him again , now . |
| 7 | You may recall my story from the April issue , headlined No Protection . |
| 8 | I found my way by memory up the stairs and pulled my case from the top of ‘ our ’ wardrobe . |
| 9 | ‘ I get all my suits from the movies I 've been in . |
| 10 | As the 1992 Art Materials Exhibition looms over the horizon , I would like to share my experience from the last exhibition and make a plea for the next . |
| 11 | As the 1992 Art Materials Exhibition looms over the horizon , I would like to share my experience from the last exhibition and make a plea for the next . |
| 12 | I think he must have taken the key for my cottage from the board by the kitchen door . |
| 13 | There 's my notes from the when I actually passed a repeat and we did n't say that travel agents sales were going to be done on that number . |
| 14 | So I always imagine the pattern spreading outwards across my knitting from the N1 cam until it reaches the point cams , where it stops . |
| 15 | Now that when , as soon as I get my cheque from the British Legion for two hundred , roughly . |
| 16 | ‘ You know I can not abide to light my Woodbine from the campfire . ’ |
| 17 | I spent many hours contemplating ( as we fishkeepers do ) the fact that I would like an extra pond to separate my goldfish from the Koi . |
| 18 | ‘ I picked up my teeth from the pitch and wanted to play on , but a dental consultant from the crowd advised me to have them put back as soon as possible ’ — JAMES CHANDLER ( Bedford wing ) after the Pilkington Cup home defeat by Harlequins when he was alleged to have been punched by an England flanker . |
| 19 | Well I I think I I 've had my doubts from the start and I you have you 're iffy about it and I do n't want anybody whose iffy generally does n't make it with us . |
| 20 | ‘ Although now I come to think about it , I had my doubts from the start . ’ |
| 21 | I drank my coffee and listened while you talked about the Government 's commitment to looking at the quality of life you should be working towards for our people ( or that we should be working towards for your people — I am not quite sure whether your use of the words ‘ we ’ and ‘ our ’ included me or not ) ; but before I could raise the questions that remained in my mind from the night before — let alone my new uncertainty as to what exactly was meant by the expression ‘ the quality of life ’ — a young man had come in and murmured something to you about ‘ the Governor ’ and ‘ the Bank ’ . |
| 22 | Last Sunday you may remember I held up something at the start of the service , and it was my mail from the previous day and we homed in on one buff letter which had H M inspector of taxes in it . |
| 23 | After completing a tour of the baroque wonders of Prague , I decided that my detour from the Danube had lasted long enough , and that it was time to head south again . |
| 24 | This morning I telephoned my agent from the kiosk on the corner of the road to make sure that he had received the first fourteen or fifteen thousand words of my novel and , hopefully , to hear him say that , yes , he thought a publisher would give me a worthwhile advance ( much needed ) on the strength or promise of this sizeable chunk . |
| 25 | A rough horseblanket rubbed against my chin and a lacy canopy of cow parsley shaded my eyes from the bright light . |
| 26 | A big , flat coal barge was passing under the bridge and I averted my eyes from the sight of it . |
| 27 | ‘ The movies are true , ’ screamed my eyes from the back of the yellow can which I took from the airport . |
| 28 | For the remainder of the carol I was on tenterhooks , not daring to take my eyes from the lectern . |
| 29 | I had the sun in my eyes from the windows one side and when I dipped a wing , the stars shining in the other . |
| 30 | My main problem has been dragging myself away from my favourite armchair , prising my eyes from the television and relinquishing my white-knuckle grip around the remote control . |