Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] from the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Between 1914 and 1918 almost 900,000 British Empire soldiers had died in the trenches , most of them from the working class . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And the one that had been writhing on the ground recovered itself , lunging towards her from the other side . |
| 10 | As she passed through the gate , to walk beside the stream , Bob Lamb caught sight of her from the other bank of the beck . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Aha and that gets rid of it from the front page . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As to the other , I heard about you from the other side as well , did n't I ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He was of course on first-name terms with everyone from the Prime Minister downwards whom he probably and inappropriately called ‘ man ’ . |
| 20 | Worse , he 's spent the last hour with someone from the Daily Express . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Whitaker had been with him from the very start , a solid , dependable man who knew his own limitations . |
| 24 | As she was telling the shuffling Grimauds that light thickens , and the crow makes wing to the rooky wood , a voice cried above her from the high scaffolding . |
| 25 | We are in an orchard with a sunken road leading into it from the main road . |
| 26 | He added thoughtfully , ‘ I was going to call in someone from the other practice , but I do n't see why … ’ |
| 27 | And even as its sound struck the cage about him , there was a crash and a judder and the sky was falling in upon him from the darkening night . |
| 28 | I had a letter about him from the Amalgamated Society of Joiners and Carpenters , of which he had been a prominent member . |
| 29 | I glanced at my watch , found I had forgotten to adjust it and read the time for him from the digital clock at the base of the instrument panel . |
| 30 | And , ’ he went on before she could interrupt , ‘ you ca n't deny you were all over me from the very beginning . |