Example sentences of "from [pos pn] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want now to turn to a less philosophical question about my passage from my armchair to the kitchen . |
| 2 | Is the Minister aware that I welcome both advances which have been made , but it will be obvious to him from my correspondence with the Department that some bullying still goes on . |
| 3 | I turned from my contemplation of the inclement evening and eased my buttocks on to the warm radiator beneath the window . |
| 4 | If I were pedantic I would have to exclude it from my description of the Basque country , because Sauveterre is definitely a Béarnais and not a Basque town ; but it is close to the edge of Basse-Navarre , and worth a visit , so I shall rope it in here . |
| 5 | From my hotel at the foot of fifth Avenue I made short forays into the neon between soaking my cuts , counting my abrasions and nursing anxiety to sleep . |
| 6 | All experienced knitters know that different dyes knit up at different tensions ( I certainly know this from my experiments with the ballet cardigans — there can be as much as half an inch or about five millimetres difference in measuring the forty stitches ) . |
| 7 | There is a corker gathering steam not far from my cottage over the siting of a compost heap . |
| 8 | I reckon I 'd hardly surface from my bunker for the first few days . ’ |
| 9 | I started with the knowledge , from my experience of the world , that a cat is likely to be very unhappy at being stuck under a gate ; that a human , by virtue of greater intelligence and manual dexterity is likely to be able to free such a cat ; that humans generally like to alleviate the suffering of pets ; and that old women in British society have an — often misplaced — belief in the practical abilities of men . |
| 10 | Our pH 16 values are normally 5 to 9 ; I look upon anything above pH 11½ to be bad — that 's from my experience in the laboratory that to get to a pH of 11 is easily done but to get to a pH of 12 you need a dam sight more alkali . |
| 11 | Erm well you know , from my experience in the mother and baby home , it seemed that even when girls did n't want to live in Flats , |
| 12 | Are you the type who thinks god there 's someone from Spain over there , oh it 's alright there 's a load of people from my nationality in the bar and stick with them . |
| 13 | For this I decided to do a painting looking from my conservatory through the windows into the garden with two white chairs as the focal point . |
| 14 | Unfortunately I had not realised that a stern rope had already been passed to the ship and an indignant shout from my crew on the after deck drew my attention to the long nylon rope which was now snaking dangerously round the bollards as we drew away . |
| 15 | Abu Sueir , was a pleasant station , well-established and well-run by one of the oldest group captains in the RAF , and the adjutant was none other than " Happy " Day or " Wings " Day perhaps one of the best known officers of the pre and postwar RAF , " Happy " was indeed a character much larger than life , and even today when I meet a fellow student from my course in the RAF Club , he related with tears streaming down his cheeks an incident when " Happy " was taking the course on rifle drill . |
| 16 | I 've been away from my part of the family since I was fifteen . |
| 17 | Erm and that 's the product analysis erm from my part of the the team . |
| 18 | Support on the tour comes from My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult . |
| 19 | From My Man on the Road |
| 20 | From My Man on the Road |
| 21 | Mrs Rosenbloom nearly always found out about it and she would be mad that he had taken me from my work with the children . |
| 22 | From my position as the chair of a governing body of a primary school , I do n't actually think it 's given us very much more flexibility in how we run that school or how that school is operated , and I do n't really and I find it very difficult to see the benefits of us becoming suddenly having erm the responsibility of the funding dumped on us , and therefore the responsibility of any cuts from from erm Local Authorities . |
| 23 | From my position at the entrance to the dug-out I could see the wounded in the sunken road in the same positions they were in before the shelling started . |
| 24 | This meant very little to me apart from a salary increase and a move from my position at the extreme right of the Cabinet table to the extreme left . |
| 25 | ‘ Because of my liberal views and activities , the local bishop removed me from my duties in the parish of Larne eight years ago . |
| 26 | Then he will say to those on his left hand , ‘ The curse is upon you ; go from my sight to the eternal fire that is ready for the devil and his angels . |
| 27 | Today rucsacs can be delightful to carry , a world apart from my heap of the 1960s , but in those days I really did not like backpacking . |
| 28 | ‘ Not only have I been separated from my wife for the past five years — but in all that time I 've only once managed to make love to her . |
| 29 | Although I was spending most of my time writing the book on Americans abroad , I see from my records of the late 1960s that I was also presenting several television programmes , both in London and in the north . |
| 30 | From my observations of the initial stages of the current process of change , the major factors appear to be as follows : Resistance to change by those committed to the status quo . |