Example sentences of "from [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can not divorce a person from her/his history . |
| 2 | She says it slipped and set off the magic eye which set the baler off which crushed the bottom part of my leg causing me to lose the tissue and muscle from my ankle up to my shin . |
| 3 | Again my mind wandered from my polishing and back onto the job I would be doing in a few hours . |
| 4 | unless I hear from my contact in Liverpool , send it out to Manchester . |
| 5 | None has arrived but if his death took place as I saw the angel pass I would not hear from my sister Ellen for some time . |
| 6 | ‘ Keep away from my sister ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Stay away from my sister ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The funeral was from my sister 's house . |
| 9 | I got support from my sister , but I did miss them . |
| 10 | ‘ I found this on my return from America this morning ; it was followed by a phone call from my sister — a very emotional phone call , I might add — and I came here at once . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Whether he knows or not , however , keep him away from my sister . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Remove your hands from my sister ! ’ |
| 13 | So she was getting oh I 'd say about ten bob from my sister in Liverpool and my wages and my sister Mary 's m money . |
| 14 | Moreover when there were fights , observed the chairman of the Birmingham City Supporters ' Club , ‘ it was punch-ups among men in those days … when I was a lad , if I stepped out of line I got a bloody good hiding from my Dad ’ . |
| 15 | The official told me that the form was not enough and that I needed a letter from my dad saying he lived alone . |
| 16 | ‘ You nicked those from my Dad , ’ said Philip . |
| 17 | ‘ As a young child I pinched some prunings from my dad 's forsythia and planted them , ’ explains Ric of his beginnings . |
| 18 | ‘ I got two shillings from my Dad every Saturday night — that was my week 's wages . |
| 19 | ‘ I get all this style thing from my dad . |
| 20 | ‘ I remember once getting a tap round the head from my dad . |
| 21 | Perhaps I get my large build from my dad who 's six foot four and 20 stone … |
| 22 | His head turned to me , just the way Mrs Quigley 's had done when she passed on that first message from my dad . |
| 23 | I think I took a lot of my ideas about class from my dad and not from my mum who was this very ladylike woman , who was involved in the church and never really wanted you to say anything nasty about class or anything like that . |
| 24 | I see from my Logbook that Geilenkirchen , Abbeville , Hirson , Hannover and Hamm amongst others appear as targets but I was never convinced that we either found , damaged , or even delayed the German masses ' progress through the Low Countries . |
| 25 | When I returned from my trip , however , it was to discover that while buying software is easy , buying a computer is certainly not ! |
| 26 | The insights I gained from my trip to Asia have supported this process . |
| 27 | ‘ One German in particular , a Major Kuntz , actually remembered me operating from my Bofors Gun position all those years ago ’ . |
| 28 | I settled back in my seat , picked some dirt from my fingernails with a spare scythe blade , and whispered discreetly through the partition . |
| 29 | Thus one conspirator in the 1961 Great Heavy Electrical Industry conspiracy said : ‘ We understand this was what the company wanted us to do ’ , and another reported that , ‘ It ( the instruction ) came to me from my superior … but my impression was that it came to him from higher up ’ . |
| 30 | I tried to back away from my levity . |