Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [adv] from a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean apart from a monstrous attack on our own officers who ca n't answer for themselves in this place . |
| 2 | I get in from a dull lunch and find your urgent communication on my desk . |
| 3 | It seems that every time I come back from a big disappointment I win . ’ |
| 4 | Instead you manipulate the plots of the others to your own ends , playing one off against the others , letting them waste their energies in fruitless rivalries while you look on from a safe distance , waiting patiently for the moment to make your move , the day when I drop dead and you can come home and claim your own . |
| 5 | It has been suggested that such sediments are characteristic of aseismic continental shelves as they move away from a mid-oceanic ridge . |
| 6 | they take away from a subordinate the feeling that his superior , in issuing orders , holds power over him . |
| 7 | Julie holds the doll up high ‘ to get all the water from inside her ’ and is fascinated to watch it stream out from a little hole in the doll 's big toe . |