Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] from a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Would you know it from a real Poussin ? ’
2 So I would agree with what Tom said on the sort of , things , yeah , you know , knock that together , we 've got that on one piece of paper already that 's about two years out of date , well , was up to date two years ago , which I could probably dig out for you , and then erm we 've got , we can even do it from a European sort of view point , which just has a few things there that need taking up .
3 Well in one sense I , I would like to see Jane addressing it , because she can do it from a non-divisional point of view .
4 It would clearly be very difficult to compare one disaster to another , in fact I 'm not even sure you could do it from a grammatical point of view , but if you were to point your finger somewhere in the world and say , ‘ We really ought to look at what 's happening here , or what might happen there , ’ could you think of one outstanding example ?
5 If there is not room for this you might utilize the space by making slots in the counter top to take your cooking knives , or you could suspend them from a magnetic bar just above out of reach of children .
6 But he asked them to ‘ see it from a different viewpoint .
7 You can hear them from a long way now what you do is you sit them down and let them take up their own particular position , you can , if they 've got their medication their Ventilin or whatever , you can put it beside them , they will know if they need to take it or not , get them with the fresh air and let them take up their own position which is usually leaning forward so that it expands their lungs , talk to them about something different because sometimes well they 've got to think of what to answer you , it 's relaxing those tubes , now if they 're taking their medication and it does n't work within about five minutes get them to hospital , because the only people that really die with asthma are those that have taken medication and keep saying I 'll give it a few more minutes , give it a few more minutes and if they 're getting worse and worse they 're leaving it too long .
8 They should all have them from a similar area because most of the time they say oh well they live so far away
9 ‘ Let's try it from a different perspective , ’ she said , and pressed again .
10 I have nothing against thorns and prickles so long as you can admire them from a safe distance .
11 You could admire them from a safe distance , but you would n't want to run into one of them on a dark night at the crossroads .
12 Tea and coffee should be strictly limited , and the patient should drink them from a small cup , and should not be given several cups in succession .
13 They will protect you from a fatal accident when using electric gardening equipment .
14 these other items were n't in the normal refuse collection and therefore they were going to sort of reduce them from a weekly collection to a
15 I er I can only write it from a Jewish perspective , it 's the perspective I stand at , but it seems to me that beyond a few superficialities there is no such thing as Jewish spiritual truth any more than there is Jewish mathematical truth .
16 Maggie Smith once said about him : ‘ Kenneth taught me how to recognize the one word in a sentence which would turn it from a commonplace statement into something wildly funny . ’
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