Example sentences of "[pers pn] be from [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm fit to be Prime Minister because I truly represent the people of this country — their hopes for economic success and social justice , and their aspirations , because I 'm from them .
2 But whereas my wife could have learnt in what direction I was from her had she heard me , there is nothing I can learn from it .
3 Tell her you 're from me .
4 I bear you no ill will , for well I found the tables entirely turned upon me , and that I was in far ore danger from you than you were from me for I was just upon resolving to defy all the censures of the world and to make you publicly and openly my wife . "
5 ah , but when we asked her where she 's from she said India
6 Because we 're talking to a lot of professional people who are from all Scots you name it they 're from it .
7 ‘ I reckon it 's from them emigration people . ’
8 Yes , er , no , yonks and yonks , yonks , yonks , yonks ago we had one for a it 's from them , absolutely ages ago So that 's that lot
9 ‘ Because really it 's from me as well . ’
10 Ring him now and tell him it 's from me .
11 If it 's from me it 's got ta be silly .
12 The inspiration is from me and her , but first of all it 's from her . ’
13 THE PALE : ‘ Shut Up Venus ’ taken from the oddball Irish trio 's debut album ‘ Here 's One We Made Earlier ’ , flipped with new tracks ‘ Unless It 's From You ’ , ‘ Opium Poem ’ and , erm …
14 It 's from you ?
15 It is a happiness so mild and cool that it is like a kind of saintliness after passion : yet it is not satiety … for if she has any unhealth , it is from me ; and that more of her lips than in her heart . ’
16 And yet — any talent I have — it is from him .
17 It is from them that I learn what I have .
18 These two men went directly to the site to place on record the facts of the find and it is from them that we know so much of Hailing Man .
19 Now , the apparent brightness of a star depends on two factors : how much light it radiates ( its luminosity ) , and how far it is from us .
20 Oh yeah , at night , anyway because at night he 's alone and he 's from it and during the day , I know , I know my brother as I ca n't rely on the , and , and , you know , and look at , Michelle would look at , at him all the time , but , put , put the thing on you know .
21 It was from me but yeah it was from Graham , yeah .
22 It was from him that Rostov learned that under normal circumstances the whole camp would have moved about two hundred verst to the north during the late afternoon and through the night — probably all the way to Pesth — but that a full day 's rest had been ordered by the Khan .
23 It was from him that she learned a love of science and a facility at working with her hands .
24 It was from them and no longer from the humble and Oppressed , as in the previous century , that the converts to Christianity were now mainly recruited .
25 Now we come back to the Alletsons ( or Allatsons ) mentioned in the legend as it was from them the Herberts acquired the property .
26 I thought it was from you . ’
27 No , no if it was from a blood transplant then I 'd feel sorry for them , but if it was from you know , then I do n't .
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