Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think most people heard about it from r.s.s. , but I hope some have come on from TSB . |
| 2 | I think most people heard about it from r.s.s. , but I hope some have come on from TSB . |
| 3 | Suddenly a coughing fit seized him and a stab of agony lanced through him from back to front . |
| 4 | Her left arm hung uselessly at her side , agony tearing through it from shoulder to wrist as the circulation returned . |
| 5 | BELVILLE : I hope , Lady Davers , she can make as great a convert of you from pride as she has of me from libertinism . |
| 6 | Everyone , I think , is vulnerable to the guest , or guests that descend upon you from time to time . |
| 7 | Our thanks go to Mrs Margaret ( Peggy ) Kaye , a member of the Fareham Branch , and an ex-pat WAAF , who writes to us from Orlando , Florida to tell us of a moving memorial service that took place at Arcadia , Florida on 27 May 1991 . |
| 8 | Mrs Billy Bond writes to us from Forest Row , East Sussex to say that most knitting machine shops are run by friendly and helpful people but Knitmates is outstanding . |
| 9 | Preston 's maternal grandad , his Great-Uncle Eddie and a cousin called Pete had all died from having things dropped on them from cranes down the docks . |
| 10 | A customer asked Sarah if her brother had been near Guernica in Spain when bombs were dropped on it from aeroplanes . |
| 11 | The system enables users to collate information downloaded to them from point-of-sale laptop systems and also to act as a point of information transfer between staff in the field and the head office . |
| 12 | Because she is a woman , John glances at her from time to time : because she is a woman . |
| 13 | I saw guys around my age [ in their forties ] dying around me from abuse , and I knew I had to quit to survive . |
| 14 | He had watched her cast aside her thin robe , and he had smiled with such infinite love and such intimacy , that pain had twisted through her from breast to womb . |
| 15 | ‘ This course is made for me from tee to green but I 've got a lot to learn on the greens , ’ he said . |
| 16 | ‘ -if I knew of the lady 's death before Monday morning , I learnt of it from Monsieur de Craon . ’ |
| 17 | Margaret Wynne Nevinson , an active suffragist , rebelled against the way ‘ marriage was dinned into me from morning till night … from a business and commercial standpoint ’ . |
| 18 | For those still in ignorance , I can reveal what every true-blooded Briton should have dinned into him from birth . |
| 19 | Hunter Square can not possibly be this type of space — it has to generate activity as a result of life spilling into it from buildings around , rather like what happens in Covent Garden . |
| 20 | With this in mind , Neal Taylor has written to me from South Devon with a request for a simple battery indicator . |
| 21 | Early in 1943 Leslie had written to me from North Africa : ‘ I had the unusual experience of seeing a Messerschmitt 110 shot down by A.A. fire not 100 feet above my head . |
| 22 | We move to Croydon in Surrey now , Mrs E has written to us from Croydon , Elizabeth . |
| 23 | Whatsoever of thought or feeling came to him from England , or by way of English culture , his mind stood armed against in obedience to a password , and of the world that lay beyond England he knew only the Foreign Legion of France in which he spoke of serving . |
| 24 | Lothar immediately sent emissaries into the regna assigned to Charles " so that they [ i.e. leading men there ] should not accept Charles 's lordship " , while Lothar himself moved south-east " to receive those who came to him from Provence " . |
| 25 | There was one which came to me from America which said , ‘ Alan Bates plays his part in a style which makes Bela Lugosi seem a master of nuance . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I thought he came to us from Hong Kong that time ? |
| 27 | When Sid Boyling gave us the light and waved us on , I read my brief prepared introduction and Mr Murray began : ‘ My friends , I speak to you from Melachusetuck , the old Indian name for Moose Jaw , and it is my pleasure to visit the studios of CHAB , your own community station , which your loyal support and encouragement over the years has made possible . |
| 28 | It is said that the plaintiffs endeavoured to run the business because of the negligent advice received by them from Mr on the twenty second of October the plaintiffs were unable to withdraw from the contract . |
| 29 | And I went by night and fought against them from dawn until midday . |
| 30 | We would have to wait until the following day to hear about them from Suor Eusebia . |