Example sentences of "[pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And how far am I from the signpost ? ’ |
| 2 | Erm , I from Edinburgh branch , I 'm the Assistant Manager of Services there , erm , that means I 'm in charge of Personnel and Admin , erm , Personal Insurances and our Technical Services Unit . |
| 3 | Now what bearing am I from you ? |
| 4 | In what , what bearing , sorry , what bearing am I from you ? |
| 5 | the inside nought instead of the outside , or you could have it upside down or anything else , but that 's pointing North , you must line it up so it points North , right , now what bearing am I from you ? |
| 6 | Well I from what I 've known . |
| 7 | I obviously I from what was coming out you probably could n't work out very much to help you but nonetheless I know that I would want to do that as a person . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , sorry to disturb you both , ’ he said , warily , ‘ but someone from the Senate has just rung up , Charles . |
| 9 | It was the twang in her vowels that commanded attention , people thought to themselves ‘ here 's someone from a Woody Allen movie . ’ |
| 10 | The programme pretty well began with an interview with someone from the Bundesbank which , as running orders go , is a bit like a long-jumper beginning his approach with his laces tied . |
| 11 | Then , someone from your band can take charge or reading them through every week , taking notes on anything which might be useful . |
| 12 | BRC was contacted and we found them somewhere to live and someone from their own country to look after them . |
| 13 | ‘ Without someone from here to look after him ? |
| 14 | He was tempted to tell her to hire someone from the gutter press if she wanted more earthy writing , or some bloody feminist if she wanted a sensitive novel . |
| 15 | Someone from the publicity department of his publishers had set it up . |
| 16 | A week later someone from the social services came to see us . |
| 17 | I always thought that to be a religious Jew , you had to dress like someone from nineteenth-century Poland . |
| 18 | Worse , he 's spent the last hour with someone from the Daily Express . |
| 19 | Almost a third of the pupils were obliged to eat worm-cakes and do their busy on sheets of newspaper until someone from the clinic was satisfied that they were no longer a threat to the health of fellow-pupils . |
| 20 | The most remarkable thing is the way in which someone from the most privileged home in the land should strike a chord with those from the most deprived backgrounds . |
| 21 | They wanted her to succeed , just as they would have wanted someone from their own family to make it . |
| 22 | If someone from Faraj comes to blows with someone from Fadhil , all the members of the groups descended from Muhammad should unite against all those descended from Mahmud . |
| 23 | If someone from Faraj comes to blows with someone from Fadhil , all the members of the groups descended from Muhammad should unite against all those descended from Mahmud . |
| 24 | It serves his purpose if someone from the Socialist Workers jeers him , for he answers with jokes , then reminds his audience that the stooges are the ugly face of socialism . |
| 25 | ‘ We 've been refusing that man a cheque book for months but he just went inside and someone from senior management , who has n't been behind a counter for years , just hands one over without a thought . ’ |
| 26 | ( Someone from a different culture may interpret it quite differently ) . |
| 27 | There is a general rule that the holder may disclose information held in confidence if necessary to protect his own interests , and it may be that disclosure is justified if needed to protect someone from harm . |
| 28 | ‘ We are beginning to think that it might have been someone from his past , ’ Bragg said . |
| 29 | The date over the door is 1708 and a fire place is dated 1758 , but in an early Parish Register someone from Dubber Beck was buried in 1632 . |
| 30 | When a putative diagnosis of yaws is made in someone from an endemic area , on the strength of positive treponemal blood tests , it is customary to give a course of penicillin which would be adequate to treat latent syphilis should this have been the cause of the positive STS . |