Example sentences of "to [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Flemyngs would be away , no doubt , ‘ at a banquet in Perth ’ , and they were ; a butler spoke to them from an upper window and asked them would they kindly leave a message so they marked the house with dirt and rotten potatoes while the servants rushed to bar the shutters over the windows . |
| 2 | They were free to raise funds elsewhere if they could , and one at least got a substantial sum from a local authority which would not have supported a project of that nature if it had not come to them from their own school children . |
| 3 | It came unclouded to them from our fathers , and we will defend this land , as long as a drop of Indian blood warms the hearts of our men . |
| 4 | Mr Rumback either read to them from books , which no-one heard because the words got caught in his big moustache , or slept . |
| 5 | You 'd be surprised how many specks of dust stick to them from underneath . |
| 6 | Gods speak to them from inside , hallucinating voices perhaps originally those of actual ancestors , later projected into statues but still ‘ heard ’ within . |
| 7 | Many thanks to them from all our branch members for taking on the job of producing our newsletter which is such a vital link and source of information for the membership . |
| 8 | Stupid though it might appear , she went upstairs and spoke to them from an upper window . |
| 9 | Between the Wars the cars were open at first , and drivers had to be well-clad in oilskins to avoid the cascade of water which poured on to them from the canopy of the open-fronted trams . |
| 10 | The ‘ conversion ’ of the UK government has been briefly described earlier ; it is manifested in their July 1989 commitment to spend £10m. on climate change research in 1989/90 and the confident request to them from the Advisory Board for the Research Councils ( ABRC ) for an extra £11m. in 1990 and £13m. in the two succeeding years for additional environmental research . |
| 11 | But for many stall-fed cattle and pigs the crops are brought to them from the fields . |
| 12 | ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ was borne to them from the enemy lines , time and again — into the land between the opposing armies , through their own lines , and away into the darkness . |
| 13 | Indicative Drug Budgets will act as an aid to monitoring the prescribing costs of GPs rather than as a direct cash payment to them from which they pay the pharmacists . |
| 14 | A mother had instituted her sons heirs and added : ‘ Let them not for any reason alienate the lands which will come to them from my estate , but let them conserve them for their successors and give each other reciprocal guarantees to that effect . ’ |
| 15 | As in Australia , they were soon working flat out with people coming to them from all walks of life . |
| 16 | The expedition was not to start until the beginning of May , five days away , and she knew with absolute certainty that the word of it was to come to them from her . |
| 17 | A bird is born with an ability to fly , yet the mother bird will urge her offspring to take that first flight , calling to them from a nearby branch . |
| 18 | One should note , however , that although a mother bird may encourage her chicks to fly by calling to them from a branch some distance away , holding some tasty morsel in her beak as an inducement , all the same , she is not actually teaching them to fly . |
| 19 | But manufacturers can sometimes move the goal posts to suit their own ends — or perhaps they were oblivious to them from the start . |
| 20 | They walked through the garden to the back door when a voice called to them from behind . |
| 21 | The reward to them from credit insurance would be the security which this would give against payment problems . |
| 22 | This is not to set themselves up as nutritionists or as medical experts — but to use the knowledge available to them from every quarter sensibly , and to ensure that others are using their knowledge and expertise in the best interests of the counsellee . |
| 23 | When I postulated that the environmentalists might have a case , they were horrified that I of all people should express such a view , when it had been clear to them from the start that I was different from the others ( my sisters ) . |
| 24 | The pact was prompted by reports sent to them from Buckingham Palace about reaction to the obvious signs of tension and unhappiness between them . |
| 25 | The system enables users to collate information downloaded to them from point-of-sale laptop systems and also to act as a point of information transfer between staff in the field and the head office . |
| 26 | respecting the provisions of the Legislature on this point and the manner in which these provisions have been eluded , as well as to point out the pecuniary advantages [ the system of bounties which the abolitionists had themselves promoted ] which would accrue to them from a vigorous enforcement of the Abolition Laws . |
| 27 | Members of TI will promote ‘ standards of conduct ’ , though they will not have to keep to them from the start . |
| 28 | Their 19th-century kings , with accompanying royal courts , were sent to them from north-west Europe . |
| 29 | A voice called to them from above . |
| 30 | On the whole , during what Duiker has called ‘ the Stalinist years ’ , this was something that was accepted by the Vietnamese Communist Party but one can imagine that it was not always so easy to accept the advice which came to them from their French comrades . |