Example sentences of "from [pron] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also outpointed Raymond Armand , the Frenchman from whom Hodkinson took the European title in two rounds . |
| 2 | He developed good relations , often deep friendships , with prominent figures of the time , including Ibn Saud , who frequently sought his advice and from whom Van Der Meulen was able to obtain a number of concessions for the Dutch . |
| 3 | These speeches were denounced by Edward Heath ( from whom Thatcher had won the Conservative leadership in 1975 ) as " full of falsehoods — in ordinary English — lies " . |
| 4 | Unlike its classic American predecessor , from whom Rudner and Bergman have shamelessly pinched not only the basic scenario but also many a vignette along the way , Peter 's Friends never unfolds its characters with any psychological depth or surprise . |
| 5 | This is the work of a separate organisation , specialist suppliers of automotive fabrics from whom Sekers secured the order . |
| 6 | The name of Donald 's wife ( if he married ) is unknown , but he had a daughter , Bethoc , from whom John Comyn of Badenoch [ q.v. ] derived his claim to the throne in 1291 . |
| 7 | She stood motionless , waiting for the two to break apart , and found herself staring at the girl from whom Niall was now gently detaching himself . |
| 8 | This was an opening not just to the FLN , from whom de Gaulle hoped ( unsuccessfully , as it transpired ) to force a response , but to the Algerian people as a whole . |
| 9 | And such a change from that of Leo Beenhakker , the urbane Dutchman from whom Toshack took over at the Bernabeu last summer . |
| 10 | Victory will open the door to a money-spinning rematch with Italy 's Mauro Galvano , from whom Benn wrenched the WBC super-middleweight title so brilliantly in early October . |
| 11 | They included railway and police personnel , Mary Ashley , a coach driver , the chemist from whom Tawell had purchased the prussic acid , and the barmaid of the Windmill Inn . |
| 12 | Throughout this period Smith enjoyed the confidence of the lord treasurer , William Cecil , Baron Burghley , and Robert Dudley , Earl of Leicester [ qq.v. ] , from whom Smith subleased the farm of the duties on the import of sweet wines after 1573 . |
| 13 | Nor was he immediately popular with large sections of the Gallic aristocracy from whom Avitus himself had come . |
| 14 | We closed down the Calgary office during the year as part of our planned withdrawal from thee Alberta market . |
| 15 | That 's what I 'd have been doing if I had been there so you 're not so different from me Peter , so you might have , you might be different in other ways John , but I 've got that weakness as well . |
| 16 | Next week we shall be in Scotland with the Helensborough and Gerloch Horticultural Society so I hope we can cultivate your interest again then but for now from Daphne , Fred Walter and from me Stefan goodbye and may I wish a joyous and peaceful Christmas to all of our gardening friends everywhere . |
| 17 | Er just one small question from me John . |
| 18 | They were also unaware that less than 50 miles away from them Fleischmann and Pons — who were also ignorant of these historical works and of the parallel developments at BYU — were beginning to muse about creating hydrogen fusion with the aid of palladium in a test tube . |
| 19 | ‘ One German in particular , a Major Kuntz , actually remembered me operating from my Bofors Gun position all those years ago ’ . |
| 20 | This gives an annual opportunity for me to get up to dates with Fordyce Maxwell of The Scotsman , an old friend from my Berwick days , at the preliminaries . |
| 21 | Flaky pastry from my Banbury cake cascaded on to my knees . |
| 22 | Once the channel tunnel is built , from my Manchester constituency alone , seven freight trains a night will leave Trafford Park for Europe . |
| 23 | Biologists believe the same benthic algae may have been responsible for animal deaths on Loch Lubnaig , near Callander , not far from my Stirling home , and at Loch Insh on Speyside in the past two years . |
| 24 | But it is also a very real disincentive to spending time on learning to microwrite and transferring large quantities of address data from my Psion 128K packs . |
| 25 | Certainly this played a major part in persuading Angela Sommerville , an interior designer based in London , to put her country cottage on the market and switch allegiance to an apartment in Bendinat in Mallorca : ‘ Door-to-door access from my Knightsbridge home to my apartment in Mallorca takes less than four hours . ’ |
| 26 | I 'm now , I 'm not retiring , I 'm just going back to being part of a member from my Hampshire Council of Community Service , and I shall be writing , of course , very rude letter , if the services and the communications of letters do n't come up to standards . |
| 27 | I knew both of them very well from my Lincoln days and had agreed to lecture at this school . |
| 28 | ‘ They get it from my Auntie Ethel , ’ he said . |
| 29 | and from my God my right is disregarded . |
| 30 | ‘ Get you away from my Hector ! |