Example sentences of "from [pron] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | As ever , little was done to conceal anything from me as I went in and out of the various rooms in which these gentlemen sat deep in discussion , and I thus could not avoid gaining a certain impression of the general mood at this stage of the proceedings . |
| 2 | And when it did arrive , I knew that Kano was still one thousand , seven hundred miles away over mountains and dunes , almost as far from me as Manchester , my home , where , as I turned ruefully north , I wished I had stayed . |
| 3 | Among the crowd of pedestrians I glimpsed a creature , whether boy or girl , and suddenly had the breath taken from me as though I had been punched , hard . |
| 4 | ‘ Because really it 's from me as well . ’ |
| 5 | It 's meant to be from me as well . ’ |
| 6 | With a little help from me as well . ’ |
| 7 | She turned half away from me as she had , rightly , detected a brace of customers approaching down the aisle of tables . |
| 8 | In this study only 1 in 5 of the farms visited maintained they liked evening courses and received as much benefit from them as from day courses . |
| 9 | The happy landowner can then stand at the window smoking a pipe and wave cheerily at the unwelcome hill-walkers , secure in the knowledge that in a few minutes they will be heading back to the car , steam gently rising from them as they blink in distress from behind grisly face-masks of dung . |
| 10 | We felt as different from them as from enemies from Mars . |
| 11 | If anyone is currently fighting a case such as this , I would also be pleased to hear from them as it does seem to me that the Revenue is using its muscle to try to remove one of the benefits of independent taxation . |
| 12 | Better still , do not touch any plants growing wild but instead grow some in your garden , as you can then pick as many pieces from them as you like . |
| 13 | He was standing well apart from them as he gave Joe and his mother the details , and as the tears rolled down his cheeks Joe sensed a great loneliness in his cousin that seemed to link up with a similar feeling within himself , and he was drawn to Martin to put his arms about him , and when their faces touched both were wet . |
| 14 | Terrified , the giant backed away from them as they came towards him and fell head first over the crag , never to be seen again . |
| 15 | ‘ We 're not getting as much milk from them as usual , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Roxie drew herself into the corner as if she wanted to get as far away from them as she could . |
| 17 | And the soldiers muttered to one another as they limped and splashed back towards England that the black friars had not only sent the terror , but withdrawn it from them as soon as they turned back , and the devil their master could call it up again in an instant if they so much as looked over their shoulders . |
| 18 | And if you add cup hooks to the edges you can hang things from them as well . |
| 19 | They were sharing the boat with a kid goat , a pile of onions and the boatman 's wife , who sat , completely muffled in tob and burka , as far away from them as was possible . |
| 20 | Rangers may buy back chris Woods from them as Andy Goram is still out for a while , and Maxwell is shit ! ! |
| 21 | We impose heavy loads on those with both brain and brawn , and we expect saintliness from them as well . |
| 22 | Erm I 'd like just to re remind the county if I could about the question I did put in my opening er remarks that er we would like some view from them as to whether if their if their strategic exceptions policy is n't er ultimately included in the structure plan they would object to the principle of us er pursuing this sort of approach through our local plan . |
| 23 | I 'll not be wanting to live with a man what 's too proud to take a helping hand from someone as was like our own son , and that 's a fact . ’ |
| 24 | Technically admirable , in that it saved the peasant from himself as well as from his oppressors , colonization demanded great expenditure to bring the land above the level of subsistence farming — an expenditure the liberal state of the nineteenth century could neither approve in principle nor afford in practice . |
| 25 | CD is comparing himself as narrator to someone following a reel which unwinds the thread of the story from itself as it rolls along in front of him . |
| 26 | Did you not yourself say that our love must be holy ? ’ or when she pointed out that his ‘ lovely poems ’ would have been less lovely if she had not pro vided ‘ the unrest and storm that made them possible ’ : ‘ Beloved I will pray with my whole strength that suffering and temptation may be taken from you as they have been taken from me and that we may gain spiritual union stronger than earthly union could ever be . ’ |
| 27 | Once you have accepted responsibility do not allow someone else to take it away from you as that will be clear proof of your inability to handle the situation . |
| 28 | to me but I d I still , I do n't get the same feeling from you as perhaps I might with medical notes , if you see what I mean ? |
| 29 | Anybody who can hum by the way the er theme to the television programme Ivanhoe and I would be interested to hear from you as well . |
| 30 | There are also some there which er can or can not at your discretion for more than one year er terminology now being used about recurrent not recurrent expenditure , it 's up to you except where we are , you are resolving to recruit staff or reduce staff erm , it would be useful to have an indication from you as to whether you wish the money to be erm carried through until next year or whether you can see it as a one off . |