Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As to the other , I heard about you from the other side as well , did n't I ? |
| 2 | He tries to guess what you say to him from the vowels . |
| 3 | She came with us from the orphanage back home , two hundred heads in two hundreds beds and two hundred broken hearts under two hundred army surplus blankets and the good nuns to look after us . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's more than you 'd dare , Deveraugh , ’ she threw at him from the relative safety of the riverbank , and he laughed softly , the sound of it filling her ears as she sped across the grass . |
| 5 | It is an odd building , when you look at it from the front , because it is very asymmetrical . |
| 6 | But the , the reason why that 's true maybe , might n't it , that if you look at it from the child 's point of view , the crying is a , is a signal it 's sending to its parent . |
| 7 | You get to it from the cliff-top . ’ |
| 8 | When I 'm in the kitchen she calls to me from the sitting room , where she is sewing . |
| 9 | She waved at him from the door and went down to the street . |
| 10 | Tilda did not understand what he was doing , but she stared at him from the height of the mast until he became conscious of her , and turned round . |
| 11 | No , if you think of it from the users point of view , not necessarily . |
| 12 | She smiled at him from the opposite stool . |
| 13 | There were about twelve or more German prisoners , all of them staring at me from the gloom of the interior . |
| 14 | The first generation might practise some " levelling " — an adaptation and " evening-out " of any highly marked regionalisms in their speech — but would basically stick to the linguistic habits they brought with them from the Caribbean . |
| 15 | For as the people became urbanised , the ancient ways and practices they brought with them from the countryside or the pre-industrial town became irrelevant or impracticable . |
| 16 | He smiled almost gently , but there was nothing gentle about the glitter in his dark eyes as they ran over her from the smooth shining coil of her silver-blonde hair to the long slender legs encased in elegant sheer navy stockings . |
| 17 | Then he muttered to me from the corner of his mouth . |
| 18 | How differently did it appear to him from the Berelands ' assessment ! |
| 19 | ‘ He came at her from the front then ? ’ |
| 20 | The Archbishop arrived in Munich between performances of La finta giardiniera , and although he was not to hear the work himself , he learnt about it from the Elector and his family : |
| 21 | In spring , summer and autumn it grinned at them from the greenwood . |
| 22 | When he returned to it from the telephone box outside , it was unoccupied . |
| 23 | And that is the erm absence of understanding it seems to us from the County Planning Department of the way the actual market works , and of the need for a local authority area erm in seeking to obtain employment for its people , the need for that area to be able to offer a variety of er employment land both in quality , size and location . |
| 24 | He waved to her from the gate , where she stood like any housewife seeing off her man . |
| 25 | He called to me from the place . |
| 26 | It looked like her from the back . |
| 27 | He looked at her from the corner of his eye . |
| 28 | She thought she might have , that he had come to her in her sleep , whispered to her as he was whispering to her now , but she had forced the dream images away , she had denied them as she had denied what he wanted of her from the beginning . |
| 29 | It comes to us from the age which gave us the Great Charter , and founded the House of Commons . |