Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] from [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed my wife believes that if when I die I am cut in half , the letters ICI will be found stamped through me from top to bottom , like Blackpool rock . |
| 2 | ‘ This course is made for me from tee to green but I 've got a lot to learn on the greens , ’ he said . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ When your brother Maurice 's wife was ill and David was an infant I understand you looked after him from time to time . ’ |
| 4 | Erm , mainly out of perversity , I do admit , because I must be the only social scientist of my generation who 's read all of them from cover to cover . |
| 5 | Kidneys are usually obtained from dead people and many of them from victims of road accidents . |
| 6 | It is a real link , not just a ‘ we 'll be thinking of you from time to time ’ relationship . |
| 7 | WML is a real link not just a ‘ we 'll be thinking of you from time to time ’ . |
| 8 | Sir Philip Egerton having been kind enough to give me a Frank I embrace the opportunity to send you some account of Mr. Gould and his movements , presuming that as you expressed a wish to hear of him from time to time , a letter on this subject might not be devoid of interest . |
| 9 | The audience can pick up the dramatic thread running through the cadenza and make sense of it from beginning to end . ’ |
| 10 | There has been much criticism of the government 's housing policy , much of it from organisations outside parliament . |
| 11 | Central government may assign a local authority a large guideline figure for capital expenditure but also assume it will finance a lot of it from sales of council houses , for example , and hence give a small credit approval . |
| 12 | The routine of the annexe on Friday after school was disturbed by Mr Crumwallis making ineffectual invasions of it from time to time . |
| 13 | Much of it is a matter of planning and approach , and most of us from time to time talk with colleagues and seek advice from older and perhaps wiser hands . |
| 14 | I could repeat the catechism for you from beginnin' to end , and chunks of the Bible . |
| 15 | This column has been set aside for the punchcard machines , but I 'm not forgetting that some of you have manual machines and I hope in future issues in to include something for you from time to time . |
| 16 | And I went by night and fought against them from dawn until midday . |
| 17 | His arm lay against hers from shoulder to elbow and there was nothing they could do about it . |
| 18 | Well they keep complaining about the refectory food so they come over here and have mutton stew with me from time to time , and they I quite like their company . |
| 19 | For three years now , I 've carried this pack with me from place to place — a penance , a mortification , a burden that weighed as heavy as sin — thinking never again to open it , never again to be asked to take out my chisel or swing my mallet . |
| 20 | They had brought tales with them from England of witchcraft and the King 's concern ; an Essex man who had come with the Hopewell on the return voyage recalled how when he was a child , a pricker was calling on all the households of the nearby villages to discover the sources of a murrain on the flocks . |
| 21 | With 23 branches throughout the United Kingdom , and more being established , the Institute offers members the opportunity to discuss export subjects with other experienced practitioners and to enjoy social functions with them from time to time . |
| 22 | She lived with the child and her father stayed with them from time to time in the flat on the north side of Glasgow . |
| 23 | Margaret Wynne Nevinson , an active suffragist , rebelled against the way ‘ marriage was dinned into me from morning till night … from a business and commercial standpoint ’ . |
| 24 | I know Mother traded with him from time to time , and once sent a quantity of wool away to another mill and had some back as grey blankets . |
| 25 | Kate did not seem to play a great part in her husband 's political life : she appeared on platforms with him from time to time , but she was by no means an automatic member of his entourage . |
| 26 | Eating out will be the most difficult for the first two stages , but you can certainly get away with it from time to time . |
| 27 | Atomism , opposed to holism , holds that each sentence has its own meaning , which it can carry about with it from theory to theory . |
| 28 | He has read it before but he dips into it from time to time as a priest might consult the Bible in preparation for a sermon , or a poisoner Feltman 's Toxicology in preparation for a murder . |
| 29 | faced with a line of print there is one tendency to fixate near the beginning of the line and another to move the eye along it from left to right . |
| 30 | ‘ We can never dismiss yesterday as though it never happened , because we carry it with us from moment to moment until the end of our days . ’ |