Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] from [pron] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Tonight , as a cold wintry blizzard rages outside , our hearts are warm with the satisfaction of the continuing public service which you have all enjoyed from your own station CHAB , and which the C.B.C .
2 Once again I can only speak from my own experience of what my patients have told me .
3 And a Kent farm labourer 's daughter recalled with special intimacy her grandmother who lived into her nineties , only moving from her own cottage in her last five years .
4 Of course I can only say from my own experience .
5 ‘ So I 've already gathered from your own choice of decorating gear , ’ he murmured , once again letting his eyes roam freely over the leotard and leggings clinging lovingly to her like a second skin .
6 Yet retrospectively he envied the Mallory children their hardships — the shared beds , the shoes that pinched , the heaps of washing , the inconvenience of too many babies in too short a time , the lack of privacy , the meagre pocket-money , the quarrels and tears , because with these things went other things infinitely precious , laughter and love , tenderness and the joy of living , things signally missing from his own childhood .
7 He added that he now felt more detached from his former girlfriend , and that he was already beginning to regard their relationship as belonging to the past .
8 Totally isolated from our own culture for long periods , we became vulnerable to forgotten times and tribes re-awakening within us .
9 If this was indeed the case , why were those children ever removed from their own home at all ?
10 Her piercing household face swam across his eyeline , even more changed from its former self than now , and hermetic in its enthusiasm for nursery objects properly researched by child psychiatrists to be fit for the middle-class children who would lose them without a pang .
11 Thus at Inkberrow Richard Russell 's ‘ lease by year ’ is valued at £1. 3s. 8d. , and Henry Woodwar 's ‘ lease for years ’ at £1 — clearly distinguished from his own property , which was valued separately at £1. 10s .
12 There is nothing discreditable in a bailiff appropriating to his lord 's use his own products , e.g. to brew from his own barley , to make cloth and linen from his own wool and flax , feed his horses from his own produce .
13 Some readers may get no further than the title of this book suggesting , as it seems to , something austere , authoritarian , Catholic and far removed from their own experience !
14 These examples of animal senses are relatively easy for us to comprehend as they are not too far removed from our own experience .
15 There seemed little else that he could do , but it was so far removed from his own branch of medicine , so alien to anything he could have foreseen happening to Celia .
16 But he is old , deeply unpopular , and increasingly isolated from his own party .
17 As a broad generalization there is much truth in this , and both groups can usefully remember from their own education how sometimes learning is " taught " and at other times " caught " .
18 In the , in the , in the U K of course , er and in Scotland , most of the acid deposition there comes from our own power stations .
19 The dullness she had felt in her exhaustion became a kind of sickness now , as for the second time that day she once again flew from her own body and split into two .
20 From a child 's viewpoint , his style and his forgiving of mistakes , his ability to explore the origin of false assumption and deduction ( doubtless springing from his own learning process ) , was a powerful illuminator of the path of learning .
21 ‘ Had my wife — her grandmother — been alive when Rose was orphaned she would have given her what she needed — and never received from her own mother — stability — a moral code . ’
22 She was in turn confused , amused , horrified by the things she read — and sometimes had that closer reaction , recognition of something suddenly true something she absolutely identified from her own experience , but had never put a name to .
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