Example sentences of "to i from [art] " in BNC.

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1 He knows full well that we are not related , though he once waved to me from a passing train .
2 ‘ He came to me from a very reliable source . ’
3 My mother was reading to me from A Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia , and I can remember exactly where she had got to in the book when , thinking I looked feverish , she took my temperature and put me to bed .
4 ‘ He called to me from a winter place .
5 He should have sent the child to me from the moment she could feed herself , Roirbak thought , sure Ari had been contaminated and spoiled by the life she 'd led at Taler 's Bump .
6 When I 'm in the kitchen she calls to me from the sitting room , where she is sewing .
7 The fly , which has settled on my forehead and reads to me from the Sixth Book of the Aeneid , is the same fly which buzzes round the head of Virgil in Mantua .
8 The voice of your brother 's blood is crying to me from the ground .
9 This last point is certainly not irrelevant , since the commemorative scroll sent to me from the Palace names Leslie as of the Parachute Regiment ; and under this unit did he appear for the last time in the Army List .
10 All Leslie 's letters to me from the sealed camp at Fairford bore ( as well as the R.A.F. censor 's stamp ) undated postmarks .
11 He said , ‘ Sickness has given me this fortune that this sultan has come to my side , at morn so health and well being have accrued to me from the arrival of this King without retinue .
12 The lack of even a hint of that attitude in Runcorn , combined with his remarkable equability , endeared him to me from the start .
13 Haas , talking to me from the team HQ in Illinois , was anxious to underline that neither he or Newman had unfairly , unethically , rocked the Williams boat .
14 He would always teach trainees : " If a client asks you a question you do n't understand , say — " Hold on a minute sir , a call has just come through to me from the States " — put him on hold then , and ask me .
15 It has seemed a certainty to me from the beginning ; the decision of the Council is tomorrow .
16 Then he muttered to me from the corner of his mouth .
17 Of his death , the only reference found is the entry in Maskelyne 's account book for 13 March 1784 : ‘ Recd of Mrs Grace Sisson , thro ’ the hands of Mr Henry Robin Auctioneer my dividend for £88.14.11 due to me from the Estate of the late Jerh Sisson — £15.0.0 — and gave it to the Widow . ’
18 As a works convenor , I work along twenty shop stewards , and I can tell this Congress that the message that they 've given to me from the people from the people that have elected them , is that they 're sick and tired of the perpetual bleating of the T U C about how they have to abide by the laws , when the only laws that are there are the laws that are bringing this movement down .
19 For instance , a letter to me from the Highways Department mentions a Forrest Road — Lothian St. cycletrack , which it says has had preliminary approval from the Transportation Committee and was ‘ shortly to be forwarded to the Department 's design and construction staff for detailing the works ’ .
20 He called to me from the place .
21 ‘ But Ken was making it very clear to me from the very beginning that I was not going to get away with anything , ’ Pertwee told me .
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23 That 's right , just looking at the er the tables that I 've managed to get faxed to me from the Football League today .
24 After we had talked , Philip read to me from an unpublished memoir which he had entitled ‘ The Two Burtons ’ .
25 I had seen him once before when he had waved to me from an upper window and I had waved back .
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