Example sentences of "from [pron] [noun] [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You did Celia a favour — she deserved it , I suppose , but you parted me from my twin sister without a single qualm . |
| 2 | I looked up from my sitting position under a tree . |
| 3 | There has been considerable comment , usually negative , about the waves of elderly people who in retirement moved away from their home town to a supposedly more agreeable environment , the south coast for example . |
| 4 | The former Page 3 girl had him banned from their £750,000 mansion after a fiery row and the couple announced they were to split . |
| 5 | They also departed from their rubber-stamp tradition in a vote on the controversial Three Gorges dam project on the Yangtze river . |
| 6 | Billy and Paul had just disembarked from their tour bus after a 17-hour journey from the previous night 's gig supporting Rush in Fort Worth , Texas , and were on their way to play in St Louis the next evening . |
| 7 | She , her parents , and brothers Chris , 16 , and Dustin , four , were specially flown 4,700 miles from their US home by a charity . |
| 8 | She had a mince pie with her tea , then went to her bedroom and changed from her shop uniform of a black alpaca dress and white apron into a grey jersey-wool dress , then she went downstairs again . |
| 9 | I mean and I think it is the lack of the regulate the er the regulatory control of city actions , I mean one of the points that we 've been recently been advised on is that one of the city institutions which has already been er fined , er from its London office on a technicality is in effect the New York and London offices are deemed to be one entity and I think that er what we 've been advised is that erm I forget the phrase , I wrote it down here somewhere , that what we would be advised to do is to take action against that particular city institution in New York , because that er it is deemed that the London and New York actions are in fact one and that the that er what in fact the er and I think the f yes , there it is , that , that in a way though what we 've been advised is that the basis of that action would be that the organisations London and New York operations are essentially the same operation and bound by a strict know your customer rule as mandated by U S Securities Law , you know . |
| 10 | Although Sharir did not confirm his defection until April 7 , Peres informed President Chaim Herzog on April 4 that he had succeeded in gaining a majority and intended to request that the Knesset be reconvened from its Passover recess for a vote of confidence . |
| 11 | To demonstrate , then , that prices are inflexible in the sense that we mean in the remainder of this chapter , it has to be established that the price may deviate from its equilibrium value over a given interval . |
| 12 | Duclos was watching grimly from astride his horse , and a hush fell on the compound when he rose in his stirrups and lifted his own stave from its leather scabbard as a signal to the cai to begin . |
| 13 | From his vantage point through a serving hatch , Auguste watched as the assemble took their seats after a brief prayer intoned by Sir Thomas . |
| 14 | He said switching the priest from his school position to a country parish was ‘ in the ordinary course of events ’ . |
| 15 | Naseby leapt up from his corner seat in a temper . |
| 16 | Each morning he came in from his Alderbury home on a belt-driven Douglas motor bike with sidecar . |
| 17 | They , they had a documentary on Metros apparently and the Me they said that Metros of a certain period for about , I think from his period sort of A registration , B registration , Y registration they 're absolute rubbish apparently . |