Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since I mention native speakers ' feelings in this connection , and since I am elsewhere rather sceptical about appeals to native speakers ' feelings , I had better explain that in this case my evidence comes from the native speakers of English I have taught in practical classes on transcription over many years . |
| 2 | and myself or as he was better known , came through B Seventeen Transition School at in Florida together and where the crews were formed so that the names in the Army of course are worked alphabetically , so everybody on my crew is trained with everybody on crew and their last name is just ahead erm in the alphabetic in the class that they were in , so that my navigator came from the same school , the same navigation class as . |
| 3 | The United States on March 24 announced its decision to withdraw from the International Sugar Organization ( ISO ) , which brought together all major producers and consumers of sugar . |
| 4 | SECRET talks were held yesterday between United States and North Korean representatives as Washington urged Pyongyang to reconsider its decision to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty . |
| 5 | There is provision for the GAL to be separately represented if their recommendation differs from the young person , and if they are of sufficient age and understanding to instruct the solicitor themselves ( the GAL will advise solicitors about this ) . |
| 6 | A hole in the wall , through which light shone from the next room . |
| 7 | Her mouth burned from the angry possession of that kiss , her lips were swollen , throbbing with tempestuous heat , and in the momentary stillness that followed they stood apart , facing each other like warriors poised in the midst of battle . |
| 8 | Its habitat extends from the cool mountain streams with a temperature of 66°F to the warmer regions where the water temperature barely goes below 70°F . |
| 9 | The Picture that had so nearly secured its hold faded from the refracting blankness in the instant it took Harry to realize what it was that Kingdom wanted from him . |
| 10 | Consequently , if young children really do lack the ability to handle explanations , their capacity to benefit from the early years of schooling will be severely restricted . |
| 11 | Much of their charm comes from the careful way that the characters were conceived . |
| 12 | This relief , it may be added , was matched for a while by the exemption of some forty villages in the West Riding in 1319 , and of 128 villages in the North Riding in 1322 , from lay taxes because of the scale of their poverty resulting from the Scottish raids . |
| 13 | Within the inn at Anoch , walled with thick turves of earth , wainscotted with wicker , and by its chimney distinguished from the other two huts nearby , the landlord and his daughter — no mention of a Mrs McQueen — served them a meal of eggs , chicken , sausage and mutton , with rum . |
| 14 | Its façade dates from the second half of the 18C and is by Josef Jägr , an Austrian from the Tyrol . |
| 15 | Nigel Hicks at Panmure Gordon feels that the market will consolidate around the three main players , with their share rising from the current 57% to around 70% . |
| 16 | The ocelot is an American cat like a small leopard ; its name comes from the Mexican ‘ ocelotl ’ , meaning jaguar . |
| 17 | ‘ Say take them off , child , ’ her grandmother corrected from the dim interior . |
| 18 | Dr Eric Williams ' famous thesis linking the rise of capitalism to the slave trade probably overstated the extent to which capital derived from the infamous traffic fed into the growing industrial sector of the expanding English economy , but in pointing out that abolition came only when the slave trade was rapidly losing importance he can hardly be far from the truth . |
| 19 | He could still make out the huge man-shape , lying face down , its outline glowing from the residual embers of the phosphorus , like a blackened , smoking tree trunk . |
| 20 | Her hand recoiled from the wooden panel as if it were red-hot , and she backed silently away . |
| 21 | The back seat , its padding springing from the slashed plastic , had been ripped out and hurled to one side . |
| 22 | My parents and Anne 's parents and Anne could so easily have had their holiday destroyed from the very beginning . |
| 23 | Since the tomato , being a member of the Solanaceae tribe which includes also the poisonous nightshades , was long regarded as a dangerous if not actually deadly fruit ( the potato and the aubergine , also of the Solanaceae family , have in their time suffered from the same associations ) presumably the mixture of vinegar and spices used in the early sauces were regarded as safety-devices against the possibly toxic effects of the fruit itself . |
| 24 | An hour later she was keeping it , sharing the small lift with him , keeping her face averted from the complacent look that painted his prepossessing face with an irritating blandness . |
| 25 | A few miles south from Brora , past the Duke of Sutherland 's monstrous French-château fantasy castle at Dunrobin , is the town of Golspie , whose name derives from the old gaelic word meaning the ‘ place of the strangers ’ and although evidence is sparse , it is thought that the strangers in question were Vikings . |
| 26 | ( The Etruscan show will be held concurrently in Memphis Pink Palace Museum , whose name derives from the pink Georgia marble of the original building , former home of the founder of the Piggly Wiggly grocery chain ) . |
| 27 | It 's a long-established human set-up , whose name comes from the Old Arcturean quickspeak for ’ family Organization ’ — because they like to affect a patriarchal system and because they demand the same absolute loyalty and devotion that one would show to close kinfolk . |
| 28 | Mabel , whose mother came from the wealthy de Veres , had by the time of her father 's death married into the Francheville family , and she was not the sort of woman to throw away her rightful inheritance without a struggle . |
| 29 | Some of Cade 's allies in the city were men of position , although the bulk of his support came from the poorer classes ( 128 , pp.111 , 115 ) . |
| 30 | Obtain as much information as you can about his argument , his willingness to shift from the present position . |