Example sentences of "be [verb] to [pron] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trudgill writes : speakers are not capable of acquiring the correct underlying phonological distinction unless they are exposed to it from the very beginning , before they themselves have even begun to speak . |
| 2 | Nigel Dudding , you 're speaking to us from the bar at erm Henley Rugby Club , what was the atmosphere there , watching the game ? |
| 3 | Let us take the usable answers ( a ) — ( f ) for Question 2 and determine what antecedents and consequences are known to us from the text . |
| 4 | But for many stall-fed cattle and pigs the crops are brought to them from the fields . |
| 5 | Most of my new friends were paras , and we used to sit around listening to our Sergeant-Major , who had been seconded to us from the 3rd Battalion after an exemplary performance in the Falklands . |
| 6 | An image copy of the Working-Set is taken whenever a new dictionary range is transferred to it from the Main Database . |
| 7 | The voice of your brother 's blood is crying to me from the ground . |
| 8 | Because , about a week before John drew our attention to that matter of concern , I had prayerfully chosen a theme for tonight , based on the set gospel — the passage that has just been read to us from the first chapter of John . |
| 9 | At first he sounded distant , as if he was calling to her from the basement of a big house , but he came nearer very quickly and suddenly he was shouting in her ear . |
| 10 | ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ was borne to them from the enemy lines , time and again — into the land between the opposing armies , through their own lines , and away into the darkness . |
| 11 | Round about midnight our supper was delivered to us from the cookhouse in a thing called a ‘ haybox ’ . |