Example sentences of "from [pers pn] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was my work , then when she came down on duty , she would sit one side of the table with her books and I would sit the other and count all the money , you see , then I would take this money er , in a bag , through on to the black through the , past the ticket collector and take it to the booking office and they took it from me and took it when they took their money to the bank , you see . |
| 2 | You will take my dyes , my remedies , my secrets away from me and use them for others . |
| 3 | He took it from me and put it on the mantelpiece . |
| 4 | ‘ Did n't you see him take it from me and put it inside his own shirt ? |
| 5 | As it happened , I emerged a little late and I fear I rather startled the young gentleman , who immediately pulled his attaché case away from me and clutched it to his chest with both arms . |
| 6 | Mrs McDougall , with a quick , concerned look at me , took my basket from me and dumped it on the counter . |
| 7 | He laid the naked red scrap briefly in Effie 's arms , and said abruptly to McAllister , ‘ Let Rose do that while you take the baby from me and find something to wrap it in . |
| 8 | A wooden Scotty-dog with a waggly , leather jointed body nipped my finger , and he snatched it from me and hurled it on to the fire , hitting it repeatedly with the poker until it disintegrated . |
| 9 | Suppose , for example , a particular spirit has chosen this lifetime to learn how to deal with the temptation to do deliberate wrong to others — whether by spreading malicious lies about them , stealing from them or causing them physical harm . |
| 10 | The three youths waited , debating within themselves whether honour had been satisfied as he took his attention from them and returned it to Marion ; and suddenly , as his eyes burned into her like a couple of lasers , it was as if the two of them stood alone and everything else was just background . |
| 11 | ‘ We devised some pretty crude mechanisms for extracting cash from the operating companies every quarter — we did n't even bother to classify it as dividend or interest or repayment of loans , we just took the cash away from them and told them to manage with less . |
| 12 | Acknowledge encouragement and assistance from them and support them in return . |
| 13 | One strategy is to take a statement from them and tender it under the Civil Evidence Act to see if the other side serve a counter notice requiring them to be called . |
| 14 | The significance of the service lies in the attempt to take the process away from them and place it under the control of national and local welfare élites . |
| 15 | I would be interested to hear from them and discover what paths their careers have taken ’ . |
| 16 | Get full statements from them and send them on their way . ’ |
| 17 | The Department of Transport has refused to buy their home from them and claims their lives would not be seriously affected by the road . |
| 18 | Pressing it more firmly against her breast as his breathing became as erratic as her own , she moved her mouth from his and buried her face in his neck . |
| 19 | The best thing about publishing is that it takes a book away from you and kills it . |
| 20 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 21 | I look forward to hearing from you and trust you will agree either to continue our present arrangements or propose some suitable alternative . |
| 22 | Are you sure that Sergeant did n't take the shot gun from you and put it against er Mr head ? |
| 23 | Thinking they frequented the Creek I would not allow them to be shot but they bent down my grain and destroyed acres of it , and simultaneously disappeared some months after harvest — Where did they come from where do they go ? pray let me hear from you and believe me |
| 24 | It was very nice to hear from you and have your latest news . |
| 25 | I want to gorge on life with you , I want to take your strength from you and give you my care . |
| 26 | Alcohol will turn men away from you and send your soul to hell ; you will be like a ship with a broken rudder , like a temple without its god , like a house without bread … |
| 27 | She drew back from him and took him at his word . |
| 28 | Therefore I am asking you to advise every man who comes without being passed by you that he will not be allowed to return home , and , in truth , I shall take his boat from him and lay himself fast . |
| 29 | The amusement in his voice stung , and she snatched the papers from him and stuffed them deep into the pocket of her briefcase . |
| 30 | They tried to grab the cash from him and knocked him to the ground . |