Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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1 | These images came to her from the metal engravings of the conquest of Libya which had appeared in the illustrated journals ; she did not remember the different countries of the Italian empire in question , for all of Africa — Libya , Somalia , Eritrea alike — beat out a rhythm of adventure and spoils and heroism . |
2 | And this is what I think the dream is trying to tell me , a message so clear now you have shown me the way to understand these voices speaking to us from the hinterland , so to speak . |
3 | When he threw open shutters to let in air and light , pictures sprang at her from the walls . |
4 | ‘ Good evening , Fabia , ’ he greeted her smoothly as the housekeeper melted away , his dark eyes flicking over her from the top of her golden head , taking in her features and perfect complexion before travelling over her long-sleeved fine wool lime-coloured dress , its straight lines hiding none of her femininity , before his all-assessing gaze ended at her neat two-and-a-half-inch-heel shoes . |
5 | An agent residing on each client provides the machine with operating operating parameters delivered to it from the application residing on an administrator 's host system . |
6 | His eyes ran over her from the wild disorder of her pale hair to the agitated beating of the pulse in her throat and the smooth rounded thrust of her breasts , and he looked at her angrily . |
7 | But I 've no problems to report to you from the buses . |
8 | There were some hill-walkers with ice-axes coming towards us from the other side of the hill , and I was trying to look as though I meant to come hill-walking dressed like a hairdresser 's receptionist . |
9 | It reads : ‘ This house known as Gorritia was bought back by Marie de Gorriti mother of the late Jean Dolhagaray with the sums sent by him from the Indies which house can not be sold nor pledged . |
10 | And of course , it took her no time to work out that precisely the opposite would apply to the beams coming at her from the front of the craft . |
11 | Young men leap past us from the roof above , splashing into the water to catch up with their canoes , beer bottles held aloft . |
12 | The island was spread in front of me , outrigger canoes paddling towards us from the silver beaches lined with tall , bending palm trees and feathery casuarinas , while , behind , the green volcanic mountains rose until they seemed to meet the sky . |
13 | Evidence of such allowances comes to us from the time of Augustus Caesar . |
14 | As you know , these programmes come to you from the University of Sussex , and if you 've listened to any of them in the past , you 'll know that they 're devoted to topics and subjects in which we feel we have some expertise , and which we think would be of special interest to the local community . |
15 | The court may require any property transferred as part of the transaction to be vested in the company , release any security given by the company , require ‘ any person ’ to make payments to the administrator or liquidator in respect of benefits received by him from the company , provide for a guarantor whose obligations have been discharged to be under revived obligations , provide for security to be given for the discharge of obligations imposed by the order and for the priority which such security shall have , and provide for the extent to which persons may be able to prove in the winding up . |
16 | It was planned as a pilgrimage church with a large crypt for the relics and with stairways leading to it from the aisles . |
17 | He caught a glimpse of two red faces staring at him from the depths of the kitchen behind the head of this strange boy turned girl who was forever crossing his path . |
18 | He had seen a row of black faces staring at him from the platform of one of the Red Sand Towers in the Nore approaches . |