Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Communist Party could apparently hope for little from the Socialist League and for nothing from the Labour Party . |
| 2 | Again it was as if something stared through them from the other side . |
| 3 | I tipped the wink to a pal of mine who 's big in local government , and he managed to fix it for someone from the public health authority to write a letter full of threats and demands and legal gobbledegook . |
| 4 | Instead of being cosily tucked up in her bunk near the bar , she surprisingly came walking towards me from the sleeping car forward of Filmer 's , her diamonds lighting small bright fires with every step . |
| 5 | Cheap petrol at present does not reflect the true environmental costs of global warming and the effects on the health of everyone from the atmospheric pollutants discharged by road vehicles . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , by 1911 there were only 89,000 12–14 year olds in such state-aided secondary schools , and 33,000 aged 15–18 , few of them from the working class . |
| 7 | Between 1914 and 1918 almost 900,000 British Empire soldiers had died in the trenches , most of them from the working class . |
| 8 | Gifts were part of the occasion too : 3,500 children gathered in the Town Hall on the morning of 1 August , 3,000 of them from the Baptist Sunday schools and the rest from the Lancasterian and Infant Sunday schools , and were each given a booklet commemorating the end of apprenticeship . |
| 9 | Nor did he for any of the other hopeful interviewees , most of them from the national papers . |
| 10 | Perhaps after all it was nothing more than that the man reminded him of someone from the old days , and it was not unknown for people from the palace compound to slum in the harbour quarter now and then . |
| 11 | The following morning , after breakfast , a bruised Clare cut a photograph of herself from the local newspaper ; luckily , her face was totally obscured by the banner , which had wrapped itself around her like a winding sheet . |
| 12 | Only the line of grim cages among whose bars whined the winter wind , and above them the great plane trees that bent across the sky , their leafless branches bending in the wind like twisted hands that came down towards him from the angry sky . |
| 13 | And the one that had been writhing on the ground recovered itself , lunging towards her from the other side . |
| 14 | As she passed through the gate , to walk beside the stream , Bob Lamb caught sight of her from the other bank of the beck . |
| 15 | Of the other two paintings , one is a picture of a friend , a girl who was also a student , posing in the same life-room , and the other , a portrait I made of a fellow student and good friend of mine from the Royal Academy , James Tower , who became a noted ceramicist . |
| 16 | She could see the lights of it from the upper windows but never got any nearer . |
| 17 | Given that about 7 million tonnes of surplus straw is produced each year , much of it from the cereal-growing area of East Anglia in my constituency , does my hon. Friend agree that it is an important source of energy ? |
| 18 | In a tough speech to the Crime Reporters ' Association he said the IRA would cease their evil trade if they could see the level of public support given to the police — much of it from the Irish community . |
| 19 | Aha and that gets rid of it from the front page . |
| 20 | There were some hill-walkers with ice-axes coming towards us from the other side of the hill , and I was trying to look as though I meant to come hill-walking dressed like a hairdresser 's receptionist . |
| 21 | And then some at Jailside Parkses and in the , during the winter months we used to , we had a spot to meet about half a dozen of us from the various factories , because we were afraid to walk home through and that way er because men used to wait in Lane . |
| 22 | As to the other , I heard about you from the other side as well , did n't I ? |
| 23 | Passing beneath it from the lay part of the church , the nave , to the chancel , where the priest celebrated , figuratively marked the rite of passage from earth to heaven . |
| 24 | Bored stiff by him , I paid little attention : he retaliated by having me birched for idleness on three occasions , but these attempts to drive Latin into me from the wrong end proved equally unproductive . |
| 25 | He was of course on first-name terms with everyone from the Prime Minister downwards whom he probably and inappropriately called ‘ man ’ . |
| 26 | Worse , he 's spent the last hour with someone from the Daily Express . |
| 27 | Chips with everything from the leathery slices of roast meat , through the squidgy fish cooked in cardboard batter to the limp arrangements of greenery that passed for salads . |
| 28 | Furthermore , the mothers and other relatives of the rapists had received threatening and abusive letters , including one from the National Front , and one letter threatening to rape the daughter of the rapist 's mother . |
| 29 | Viktor had sketched the green enamel and the twinkling diamonds in the tattered book he 'd taken with him from the charnel house that had been his home . |
| 30 | Whitaker had been with him from the very start , a solid , dependable man who knew his own limitations . |