Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] to [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm what , what was the feeling that came over to you from the tenants ' group at the time ? |
| 2 | He could not find Strawberry but after a time Cowslip came up to him from the other end of the hall . |
| 3 | Alice Mair had heard the car and came out to him from the kitchen , wiping her hands . |
| 4 | As soon as we entered the restaurant the proprietor came out to us from the kitchen , rubbing his hands oilier on a tea towel . |
| 5 | Between the Wars the cars were open at first , and drivers had to be well-clad in oilskins to avoid the cascade of water which poured on to them from the canopy of the open-fronted trams . |
| 6 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 7 | " Anywhere , " we called back to him from the bow . |
| 8 | He did n't pause as Dessie Burns called out to him from the hardware shop , he did n't notice Mr Kennedy looking over his glasses at all the bottles and apothecary jars in the window display of the chemist 's shop . |