Example sentences of "[indef pn] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the twang in her vowels that commanded attention , people thought to themselves ‘ here 's someone from a Woody Allen movie . ’ |
| 2 | ( Someone from a different culture may interpret it quite differently ) . |
| 3 | Someone from a different culture , or world , visiting our society could be excused for thinking that crime was a basic , ever-present feature of our everyday lives . |
| 4 | It is perhaps less easy to see how someone from a privileged background can be led to seek emptiness as a physical state , when it is obviously such an unpleasant , even painful , one . |
| 5 | ‘ I interviewed someone from a rape camp in Doboj . |
| 6 | It might help to talk about how you feel with someone you trust and who knows how the system works , for example , someone from a self-help group or an individual health visitor or advisor . |
| 7 | ‘ Of course at first I just thought it was someone from a boat that had been driven in by the weather . |
| 8 | However jewel-like the good will may be in its own right , there is a morally significant difference between rescuing someone from a burning building and dropping him from a twelfth storey window while trying to rescue him . |
| 9 | It involves an act of imagination to see one 's society and culture through the eyes , as it were , of someone from a different culture , to whom the normal ways of living and acting in Western societies appear odd and to demand explanation . |
| 10 | And if , for example , rescuing someone from a hole meant destroying priceless Michaelangelo 's to get to him I would n't even see that as a real choice . |
| 11 | In my experience , clients will not give up their contacts amongst the trade media and they feel at their most confident when talking to someone from a publication in their own trade or profession . |
| 12 | I knew why , they had the queer sensation that they were being addressed by someone from a bygone age . |
| 13 | Someone from a hostel in London came to see me and said they would have me , so when I went to court in Sheffield the judge decided to put me on bail for four weeks , on condition that I stayed at the hostel and that I did n't drink , and also if I attended the Jules Thorn psychiatric unit , which is part of St Pancras Hospital , for a ten-day assessment . |
| 14 | He remembered the menacing phone-calls to Nicola and wondered aloud whether someone from a drugs syndicate had been trying to scare her . |
| 15 | ‘ No , it would have to be someone from a family of rank , would n't it ? |
| 16 | But , what I 'm saying is , if you , salesmen particularly get one , you 'll need one to get round the country your patch , but you need to get familiar with the towns up and down the country for deli , for delivery , cos your customers will talk about the area and you 're talking to someone from a transport café , you have n't got a clue where the towns are . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , sorry to disturb you both , ’ he said , warily , ‘ but someone from the Senate has just rung up , Charles . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Someone from the publicity department of his publishers had set it up . |
| 21 | A week later someone from the social services came to see us . |
| 22 | Worse , he 's spent the last hour with someone from the Daily Express . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ You all right there ? ’ said someone from the table to me . |
| 27 | In practice it means that the keynote lecture will be given by someone from the New World . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , ’ she replies eagerly , ‘ someone from the British Committee is supposed to be meeting me . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We do n't know what death does to someone from the planet Krypton , ’ a DC Comics spokesman says . |
| 30 | I 've got someone from the village coming in every day to check that no one tries making a nuisance of themselves . |