Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [pron] from [art] " 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 | Saunders was arrested later and told police he ‘ legged it ’ after someone shouted at him from a car . |
| 4 | It just so happens that , before I came to this debate this morning , I was flicking through a pile of press cuttings when I came across one from The Journal ( Newcastle upon Tyne ) , a north-eastern regional newspaper . |
| 5 | Mr Rogich says , unhelpfully : ‘ I look at everything from the historical point of view because I think that gives greater impact to the message . ’ |
| 6 | So I make a joke of it — I flirt with everyone from the tea-lady to the sales manager and no one takes it seriously . ’ |
| 7 | I heard about it from a neighbour this year … |
| 8 | As to the other , I heard about you from the other side as well , did n't I ? |
| 9 | I spoke to her from a great distance . |
| 10 | And as she pushed open the west door Miss Danziger was met by the scent of fennel , the six-foot stems of which towered over her from a huge stoneware pot , very different from the musty scent of piety that greeted her in English country churches . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 … |
| 13 | Nobody looked at him from the windows . |
| 14 | St. Margaret , Queen of Scotland from about the year of the Norman conquest to 1093 , was riding in a litter attended by a company of soldiers and a priest who read to her from a Gospel Book . |
| 15 | He tries to guess what you say to him from the vowels . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | It is like the surface of an orange : if you look at it close up , it is all curved and wrinkled , but if you look at it from a distance , you do n't see the bumps and it appears to be smooth . |
| 20 | It is an odd building , when you look at it from the front , because it is very asymmetrical . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If you look upon me from an aerial view , I 'm open . |
| 23 | You get to it from the cliff-top . ’ |
| 24 | When I 'm in the kitchen she calls to me from the sitting room , where she is sewing . |
| 25 | Doyle 's attention was drawn by a youth , wearing suit and bow-tie , who called to him from an empty table . |
| 26 | She waved at him from the door and went down to the street . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The court heard that a police officer on the scene said Ms Leyshon 's burns were so bad she looked like something from a horror movie . |
| 30 | No , if you think of it from the users point of view , not necessarily . |