Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , many of them know that their relatives and friends will be calling in to see them from time to time ; but ‘ from time to time ’ does not take care of those long days and nights in between , when , apart from their often desperate need for company , they feel frighteningly cut off from the world of people who would come to their aid at once if they fell ill , if only they had the means of contacting them . |
| 2 | She found herself wondering idly whether , if she and Johnny were to make love now , here beneath the apple tree , Ben would be able to see them from his garden , or Mrs Draper from her bedroom window . |
| 3 | Adventure Training put him in contact with me and after five days Bombardier Michael Goldsmith and a subaltern had come to see me from the Outer Hebrides with a view to offering an army vehicle . |
| 4 | the O Little Town were you planning to arrange them from the |
| 5 | ‘ Now that I 've had the frocks made , I think I will definitely do the pantomime — even if they have to suspend me from pegs , ’ she declared . |
| 6 | We owe it to our children and grandchildren to spare them from the epidemic of smoking-related disease , disability and death from smoking that has marked the middle and later years of the 20th century . |
| 7 | If the purpose of the march was to force the French to battle it failed ; Charles 's council debated whether to go on the offensive against Gaunt 's army , but in the event their belief in the military superiority of the English was still sufficiently strong to inhibit them from offering an open challenge , and they agreed to pursue the usual defensive tactics . |
| 8 | The gypsies themselves are puzzled by the apparant determination of the council to evict them from a site well away from public view . |
| 9 | This uncertainty might , on the one hand , encourage social commentators in the attitude expressed by a writer in The Economist in 1848 : ‘ In our condition suffering and evil are nature 's admonitions ; they can not be got rid of ; and the impatient attempts of benevolence to banish them from the world by legislation , before benevolence has learnt their object and their end , have always been productive of more evil than good . ’ |
| 10 | To banish them from their doom . |
| 11 | This recommendation was not accepted , however , and the authorities still have to balance the need to provide access to the parks with the need to preserve them from the increased pressure that results . |
| 12 | These districts were not very fruitful in peat , and they would have to carry them from a distance of many miles ; in some cases a pavement of large stones led from the main road to the door of the dwelling . |
| 13 | I fell down in a kind of madness , and they had to carry me from the room . |
| 14 | In the past a Welsh dealer had brought ponies and kept them on the moors at Hartshead to fatten them up for a few weeks prior to the fair , and Mr Rawson had often helped to drive them from there to Lee Gap . |
| 15 | I want you to drive me from King 's Cross down to the cottage , right ? |
| 16 | It may be possible to find such books in your office , or to arrange to borrow them from a public library . |
| 17 | Rita 's sorrow today at having to leave her children thousands of miles away is well concealed by her satisfaction at being able to support them from afar . |
| 18 | ‘ Fairly early on we decided we 'd have separate people doing the Dalek voices because the actors hired to work them from the inside were being engaged more for their physical skills in manipulating Daleks than for their formal acting abilities , made redundant by the energies just to operate them . ’ |
| 19 | Admiral Paul Rowe , of Rotherham Starfleet Command , was waiting to meet me from the train . |
| 20 | The barrister , too , may find that such facts are missing from his brief , and have to extract them from his instructing solicitor in conference . |
| 21 | This morning the 780 employees of Digital in Galway will wake up with a hangover after a night 's mourning and stare into an uncertain future , wishing that some divine intervention could be called upon to extract them from their present straits . |
| 22 | ‘ A person who receives goods on sale or return and at once passes them on to someone else under a like contract is entitled to demand them from that third person just as soon as the original owner of the goods has the right to demand them from him , but I am clear that , if he allows a period to elapse before he hands them on to a third person on sale or return , he has done an act which limits and impedes his power of returning the goods . |
| 23 | ‘ A person who receives goods on sale or return and at once passes them on to someone else under a like contract is entitled to demand them from that third person just as soon as the original owner of the goods has the right to demand them from him , but I am clear that , if he allows a period to elapse before he hands them on to a third person on sale or return , he has done an act which limits and impedes his power of returning the goods . |
| 24 | A dozen books took up the space of three dozen nomes , and while Grimma privately thought that some of the books were more useful than many of the nomes , she 'd accepted Dorcas 's promise that they would come back , one day , and try to retrieve them from their hiding place under the floor . |
| 25 | Let me just , just show you a little thing here just enclosing , just linking it up there , there it is , it 's , it 's a well known little picture , it 's a picture of a wheel where there in the centre the hub is Christ , you see when the hub has got to be the centre otherwise the wheel does not run true and there with Christ is the hub , the centre of your life , the centre of my life , and you and I our lives our selves , there on the outside , were the rim and there 's those spokes that hold it together and make it run true the spoke of , of the bible , God 's word allowing him to speak to us , the spoke of prayer , our communion with God , our praying to him , the spoke of obedience following him obeying him , bringing our lives into , into line with what he says in his word , he says if you love me you will keep my commandments , that 's why we 've got to learn and get to know them from his word and then the spoke of fellowship somebody as likened them to prayer , being like air , our breath , the bible being like food , giving us nourishment and strength , fellowship , it 's the family situation and in just as in a nature family there is , that is the place for care , it 's the place for support it 's the place of sharing , it 's the place of love , where it should be , so God 's family , and then the final one their obedience like exercise , keeping fit , it 's the callisthenics , it 's keeping the muscles toned , obeying what he tells us in his word , well that 's what it means to be a Christian bringing ourselves into line with him and allowing him to re-fashion us in his image and it 's a process that 's going on all the time , Wesley and his hymn talks about us being used and the scripture being changed from glory into glory , till in heaven we take our place there , like him , John says when we see him , we shall be like him , but we shall see him as he is and that 's God 's purpose for you and for me , to be like him , and the moment we come to him and respond to him , the process starts and it goes on , day in , day out , night in , night out , week in , week out , over the years him changing and fashioning us into the image of his son , because that 's how he created us originally , he created to be like him and in this new creation , we were singing we are a new creation , it 's to be like him . |
| 26 | The tackle should be compatible with the size of fish you hope to catch and the type of water you are trying to pull them from . |
| 27 | Prisoners may be left locked in their cells for longer , because there is not the staff to supervise out-of-cell activities or to escort them from place to place . |
| 28 | These volumes are aimed to provide serious students with the rudiments of the craft , and yet to launch them from the craft into inspired practice . |
| 29 | Many more have claimed him to be a genius of the hidden writings of the past ; an unsurpassed esoteric ; an extraordinary magician who deliberately mixed up his mysterious verses to hide them from weaklings and meddlers . |
| 30 | Before banks or even locks and keys were invented , the usual way of protecting valuable objects and money was to hide them from other people . |