Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | British rail tell us that the Scotland to Brighton train which is due to call at Oxford at 5.35 is running 2 hours late this evening , but I have nothing to report to you from the buses . |
| 2 | British Rail tell us their services are running to schedule this evening and I 've nothing to report to you from the bus services in the area . |
| 3 | As to the other , I heard about you from the other side as well , did n't I ? |
| 4 | However , the individualistic approach of modern Darwinism which looks at it from the point of view of the reproductive success of individual genes , is n't like the older group selectionistic thinking was , prejudiced in favour of any group . |
| 5 | He , too , suffered from an occasional enlightening vision which came to him from the dim past and which he must have suppressed at the time … |
| 6 | Nobody looked at him from the windows . |
| 7 | He tries to guess what you say to him from the vowels . |
| 8 | Five years after the revolution Lenin complained that the Communist Party had good political control only over the top echelons of the vast bureaucracy : ‘ Down below , however , there are hundreds of thousands of old officials who came to us from the Tsar and from bourgeois society and who , sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously , work against us ’ ( quoted in Merkl , 1977 , pp. 166–7 ) . |
| 9 | She came with us from the orphanage back home , two hundred heads in two hundreds beds and two hundred broken hearts under two hundred army surplus blankets and the good nuns to look after us . |
| 10 | ‘ That 's more than you 'd dare , Deveraugh , ’ she threw at him from the relative safety of the riverbank , and he laughed softly , the sound of it filling her ears as she sped across the grass . |
| 11 | It is an odd building , when you look at it from the front , because it is very asymmetrical . |
| 12 | But the , the reason why that 's true maybe , might n't it , that if you look at it from the child 's point of view , the crying is a , is a signal it 's sending to its parent . |
| 13 | You get to it from the cliff-top . ’ |
| 14 | When I 'm in the kitchen she calls to me from the sitting room , where she is sewing . |
| 15 | She waved at him from the door and went down to the street . |
| 16 | Tilda did not understand what he was doing , but she stared at him from the height of the mast until he became conscious of her , and turned round . |
| 17 | They were , in fact , probing towards the central issue of the Watergate affair : not who planned it , but who knew about it from the start and who had ordered the cover-up . |
| 18 | No , if you think of it from the users point of view , not necessarily . |
| 19 | She smiled at him from the opposite stool . |
| 20 | He rose to his feet , genuinely pleased to see the pretty girl who smiled at him from the doorway . |
| 21 | At Hammersmith Erskine 's building will sit on an island site , doing its best to protect those who work in it from the surrounding aural and visual pollution . |
| 22 | Again it was as if something stared through them from the other side . |
| 23 | There were about twelve or more German prisoners , all of them staring at me from the gloom of the interior . |
| 24 | Everyone waved at us from the street and were ever ready to help with directions . |
| 25 | The first generation might practise some " levelling " — an adaptation and " evening-out " of any highly marked regionalisms in their speech — but would basically stick to the linguistic habits they brought with them from the Caribbean . |
| 26 | For as the people became urbanised , the ancient ways and practices they brought with them from the countryside or the pre-industrial town became irrelevant or impracticable . |
| 27 | He smiled almost gently , but there was nothing gentle about the glitter in his dark eyes as they ran over her from the smooth shining coil of her silver-blonde hair to the long slender legs encased in elegant sheer navy stockings . |
| 28 | I know how they 're supposed to work , I know all about the importance attached to establishing a rapport and initiating trust and building confidence and all that shit ( and I 'm almost flattered they have n't done the old good-cop bad-cop routine , though maybe they just do n't do that at all any more because everybody knows about it from the TV ) , but I really do feel something for McDunn : he 's like my lifeline back to reality , my ray of sanity in the nightmare . |
| 29 | Then he muttered to me from the corner of his mouth . |
| 30 | How differently did it appear to him from the Berelands ' assessment ! |