Example sentences of "from [pos pn] [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | On wet days at Great Casterton we took it in turns to lecture , and on one of them I offered to talk about the Fosse Way as a Roman military frontier , a subject which had intrigued me from my work at Lincoln . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Diarrhoea , which I had now had for five days , finally drove me from my bed at six-thirty . |
| 6 | Back from my vacation at glorious unsunny Bucket World . |
| 7 | I was turned down by all the universities on my UCCA application form , because I had received a bad report from my headmaster at Downside School who said I took drugs , which was true , but was also an admission made to him in confidence . |
| 8 | Dear Charles , I have decided to resign from my post at the School for Italian Studies . |
| 9 | Three or four times they varied the system to pull me from my palliasse at a dead hour of the morning-about three-thirty or four a.m . |
| 10 | Smith said : ‘ I know Mark well from my time at Newcastle . |
| 11 | The matter has been under negotiation , off and on , for several years now , as I remember from my time at the Home Office . |
| 12 | I had no reason to suppose that the letter was anything but genuine — it was on the shipping company 's notepaper , and , insofar as such recollections are of any value , the signature at first glance was in keeping with the signature I remembered vaguely from my days at Upper Thames Street . |
| 13 | And it 's frightening , but I , I mean , I know from my days at British Telecom , I 'd say I was on that phone , really |
| 14 | ‘ My dear , Hari , do n't you think I 've learned anything about human nature from my stay at the prison ? ’ he said softly . |
| 15 | He had not woken when I returned from my meal at two . |
| 16 | I instruct you to pay direct debits from my account at the request of Campaign for Real Ale Limited . |
| 17 | To my bank manager — Direct Debiting Instruction I instruct you to pay direct debits from my account at the request of New International Publications Ltd ( NIP Ltd ) . |
| 18 | I borrowed The Saint from my father and historical novels like Katherine from my mother at home . |
| 19 | The world does funny things but I can tell you that 's the furthest thing from my mind at this point in time . |
| 20 | ‘ The truth is , no one was further from my mind at the time than my god . |
| 21 | Lesley : ‘ I think at least 50 per cent of our songs ' lyrics come from my anger at men and sexism generally . ’ |
| 22 | There , like others , he left the Percys to suffer from their rashness at the battle of Otterburn . |
| 23 | The winner will be awarded £100 by Turn-a-Round , who offer a full woodturning service from their base at Rockland St Mary , Norwich . |
| 24 | Helicopter gunships ply constant missions from their base at Kombolcha : yesterday I watched MiG-21 fighter-bombers , loaded with bombs and rockets , take off from Dire Dawa and head west . |
| 25 | Before they reached this happy state , however , they were to carry through several operations and long hours of dangerous training from their base at the Hayling Island Sailing Club on an isolated spit of land called Sandy Point on Hayling Island ( near Portsmouth , Hampshire ) . |
| 26 | Six RAF Tornados are expected to leave for Iraq from their base at Marham , Norfolk , by the weekend . |
| 27 | Every morning throughout the summer they would march smartly from their capanna at the Albergo Excelsior to the Hôtel des Bains at the other end of the Lido . |
| 28 | Neighbouring freshwater wells have become unusable , and the smells from the vandalised creek , at times flowing in multi-coloured currents with dyes from the chemical treatments , have at times been so pungent that inhabitants of the area along the banks of the Yellow Creek have been awakened from their sleep at nights with extreme nausea and vomiting . |
| 29 | Class 1 contributions are paid by workers in employment and are deducted from their pay at the statutory rates . |
| 30 | One can find examples of paper that has become so brittle that pages break away from their binding at a touch , and if anyone tries to handle the pages pieces break off . |