Example sentences of "and from [pron] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 the truth should be er help for me now , give me , give me a support or something and from her I could go about two weeks not hearing at all , no phone call , nothing .
2 What he most looked forward to seeing were others of his kind with whom he could fly and from whom he would learn things .
3 No doubt there was some poor woman in Australia with whom he 'd become involved and from whom he 'd run away when she 'd presented him with some difficult situation .
4 Many hundreds of casts of these human fossils have since been made , and from them we can learn a good deal about the last appalling hours in the life of Pompeii .
5 So if some 500 million years ago , an astronaut , from some other planet passed near the earth , he could easily have noticed in the blue seas , a few new and mysterious turquoise shapes ; and from them he might have guessed that life on earth had really started .
6 He is confident , brave and agile , and from what we can gather he is rated the best in America .
7 The interior of the bus was lit only by a small torch made to look like an old lamp , the type you see in Westerns , and from what I could see I was glad there was no more light .
8 ‘ Her name 's Louise , ’ Christina volunteered , ‘ and from what I can gather she 's madly in love with him . ’
9 Jay would not be shut out and from what she could tell , Lucy did n't want to shut her out .
10 She had fur-backed gloves and high brown-polished boots , not shoes but boots , and from what she could see of them they looked serviceable , as if they really were worn for walking .
11 And from what she could see of him , which was not much , he was giving her the coldest of stares .
12 This is the part of the house that visitors stand closest to and from which they will form their first impression .
13 This quality of inclusion signifies the sense of the collective that women have , and from which they can draw strength in their lives .
14 This is a comprehensive slide collection of illustrators ' work , which is open for clients to visit and from which they can select the illustrators ' work , which is open for clients to visit and from which they can select the illustrators they consider to be most suitable for a particular job .
15 This is a comprehensive slide collection of illustrators ' work , which is open for clients to visit and from which they can select the illustrators ' work , which is open for clients to visit and from which they can select the illustrators they consider to be most suitable for a particular job .
16 Partly because those who served in garrisons had to be ready to serve in the field when required ( for a castle acted as a base where soldiers could remain when not in the field , and from which they could control the countryside around by mounted raids within a radius of , say , a dozen miles ) , partly because of an increasing difficulty in securing active support from the nobility and gentry for the war in France , English armies at the end of the war sometimes included a greater ratio of archers to men-at-arms than ever before , sometimes 7:1 or even 10:1 , rather than the more usual 3:1 under Henry V and the parity of archers to men-at-arms normally found in the second half of the fourteenth century .
17 The only this group could admit were reforms that benefited its members : the sale of the common lands and the entailed estates of the Church , an operation that they could dominate and from which they could draw profit .
18 Now they restrict cattle to the 14-hectare hillside plot which they 've had since 1979 — and from which they used to scrape a living of maize and beans before they invaded the valley-bottom land at La Colorada .
19 Sturt was about to proceed upon a new expedition into the interior of Australia I beg to send for your perusal a Letter I have lately received from him and from which you will perceive that he has written to Lord Stanley ; as I know no one better fitted for such a purpose than this enterprising and persevering Gentleman I do hope the Government may be disposed to second his views ; perhaps , your Lordship , could obtain and favour me with some information on the subject ; from the manner in which you referred to him in your Letter I am led to believe that some arrangement has already been made ; pray say if such be the case .
20 Writing the words in your book provides you with a ready-made store of words which you know your pupils have difficulty with , and from which you can construct a teaching programme .
21 The foreman 's office was partitioned off from the shop floor and from it one could see the men at work on the machines — five or six of them — but part of the floor was screened off by large canvas sheets suspended from the roof trusses .
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