Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Six each saw benefits to themselves from joining the Common Market and hence signed the treaty of Rome . |
| 32 | The British raiders had the race to themselves from the final turn as Jodami overhauled his chief rival in an exciting duel that was only decided on the line . |
| 33 | When they are contacted by reporters following up on a story , they typically say something equivocally critical about IQ 's heritability , so as to quarantine themselves from controversy and , above all , to protect-themselves from false charges of racism and elitism . |
| 34 | I mean Mr Chairman it may just say honestly , I mean this is among ourselves from the commercial point of view there 's no doubt about it , I 'm in the grocery trade , the more you get on a lorry when you deliver you get every single |
| 35 | Judge for yourself from your own experience . |
| 36 | ‘ The king my father learned of my regard for yourself from Sir Thomas Vaughan who saw it as his duty to inform him , ’ Edward told her with notable reluctance . |
| 37 | My expectations have been met in full measure , as I think you may ascertain for yourself from our well-beloved Tom Ingledew who conveys to you this packet . |
| 38 | I learnt to make new clothes for myself from the skins of dead animals . |
| 39 | They probably ripped it off themselves from a Hollywood still . |
| 40 | This illustrates the line to be drawn between credit which people genuinely choose for themselves from a range of options , and credit which they use and go on using almost automatically — credit which is therefore not entirely subject to the healthy influence of open competition and free consumer choice . |
| 41 | There 's nothing important in any of these locations , and if the adventurers fancy a bath they 'll have to fetch water for themselves from the well outside ( location 8 ) and heat it somehow . |
| 42 | At some time or other the twin siren songs of forward and backward integration have led most large companies to do everything for themselves from manufacturing their own plant and spares , sometimes even as far as owning their own retail outlets . |
| 43 | Yet we all of us swim between the outside world and the internal , trying to look at ourselves from the outside and also looking from the inside at the world , having a sense of ourselves and how we look that may be variable and dependent on many things — mood , confirmation from others , self-esteem , changing trends in what is considered attractive . |
| 44 | I always tell such guys to try to look at themselves from behind ! |
| 45 | Among them were three Velvet Roses ; single , double and Royal , all , Miller said , raised by himself from seeds of the pale Provence Rose . |
| 46 | We went out to breakfast with Mr Robinson , a pleasant but prosy old gentleman who told us a complicated tale of a bust of Wieland , retrieved by himself from unworthy oblivion , to the great delight of Goethe and other literary eminences . |
| 47 | The table documents a growth in the proportion of those living by themselves from around 10 per cent in 1945 to over one-third in 1980 . |
| 48 | I must stress that the equation is not one that Bukharin himself put forward , but has been derived by myself from his set of simple equations for equilibrium conditions . |
| 49 | We grew up together , I 've looked after her by myself from when she was two , which was when I split up from her father . |