Example sentences of "from [pron] [noun sg] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From my hotel at the foot of fifth Avenue I made short forays into the neon between soaking my cuts , counting my abrasions and nursing anxiety to sleep . |
| 2 | From my position at the entrance to the dug-out I could see the wounded in the sunken road in the same positions they were in before the shelling started . |
| 3 | Dear Charles , I have decided to resign from my post at the School for Italian Studies . |
| 4 | The matter has been under negotiation , off and on , for several years now , as I remember from my time at the Home Office . |
| 5 | ‘ My dear , Hari , do n't you think I 've learned anything about human nature from my stay at the prison ? ’ he said softly . |
| 6 | I instruct you to pay direct debits from my account at the request of Campaign for Real Ale Limited . |
| 7 | To my bank manager — Direct Debiting Instruction I instruct you to pay direct debits from my account at the request of New International Publications Ltd ( NIP Ltd ) . |
| 8 | ‘ The truth is , no one was further from my mind at the time than my god . |
| 9 | There , like others , he left the Percys to suffer from their rashness at the battle of Otterburn . |
| 10 | Before they reached this happy state , however , they were to carry through several operations and long hours of dangerous training from their base at the Hayling Island Sailing Club on an isolated spit of land called Sandy Point on Hayling Island ( near Portsmouth , Hampshire ) . |
| 11 | Every morning throughout the summer they would march smartly from their capanna at the Albergo Excelsior to the Hôtel des Bains at the other end of the Lido . |
| 12 | From their residency at the Fridge during the first summer of love , Halo used slide and film projectors to throw up a collage of op-art patterns , film loops of dancers like E-Boy and Wumni , and unique fractals derived from video feedback . |
| 13 | Sarah Fleming came home from her day at the Poly where she had heard the news of the killing in the college refectory . |
| 14 | Sara too from her desk at the top of the room stared at him blankly . |
| 15 | Firemen had climb through a window to rescue Natalie Prosser , aged 13 months , from her home at The Fairway , Saltburn , yesterday after she managed to slam the French windows shut when her mum popped into the back garden . |
| 16 | Crossing the road to water the bed of dahlias and moon daisies and nasturtiums she kept on the grass margin across the road from her door at the beginning of the village , Mrs Reynolds paused to watch Rose make her way round by the bridge to the post office and muttered venomously , ‘ There 's no fool like an old fool' , as if confronting the worst part of her own nature . |
| 17 | ‘ This is probably a stupid question , ’ Ace said from her position at the foot of the table , reaching out for another piece of fruit , ‘ but are all these bits you , or what ? ’ |
| 18 | She wore the New Look , a coat of beige gaberdine which fell in two swaying , graceful pleats from her waist at the back ( the swaying must have come from very high heels , but I did n't notice her shoes ) , a hat tipped forward from hair swept up . |
| 19 | Even from her place at the desk she could read the gold lettering on the frame . |
| 20 | She rose quietly from her place at the side of the table and went out of the room . |
| 21 | Even though X/Open no longer has any formal relationship with the Foundation , following the Cambridge , Massachusetts-based group 's withdrawal from its board at the end of last year , the open systems standards body has nailed down an agreement with OSF which will see all DCE specifications integrated into its Common Applications Environment , CAE , interfaces over the next 12 to 18 months . |
| 22 | The plate from which he had eaten his hamburgers and frozen green beans , which had been last night 's supper , still unrinsed in the sink ; the splatter of grease marks above the ancient gas stove ; the viscous mess of grime gumming the narrow gap between stove and cupboard ; the soiled and smelly teacloth hanging from its hook at the side of the sink ; last year 's calendar askew on its nail ; the two open shelves jammed with a conglomeration of half-used cereal packets , jars of stale jam , cracked mugs , packets of detergent ; the cheap , unstable table with its two chairs , their backs grubby from numerous clutching hands ; the linoleum curving at the wall where it had become unstuck ; the general air of discomfort , uncaring , negligence , dirt . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , as well as searching for a director to replace its current chief , Bob Scheifler , the X Consortium is also examining ways of distancing itself from its home at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and developing some kind of marketing focus without falling foul of its not-for-profit status . |
| 24 | The 20C has not been kind to the Jews and the community in Prague has never recovered from its suffering at the hands of the Nazis . |
| 25 | The stockmarket is up by around 30% from its low at the start of October . |
| 26 | In the wake of the huge success of their up-dated versions of Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro , Music Theatre London 's new production of Rossini 's Cinderella comes hot foot from its premiere at the Vienna Festival . |
| 27 | Ellen 's voice was suddenly a harsh scream , so harsh that we both looked towards her and saw that she was threatening both of us with one of Wavebreaker 's heavy-duty fire extinguishers that she had snatched from its rack at the head of the main companionway . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , Beth , I do love you , ’ she said : the two of them laughing all the more when a little voice piped up from its place at the table , ‘ I do love you too ! ’ |
| 29 | The Olympic Gold medallist threw 9.99 metres from his wheelchair at the Sunshine games in Florida . |
| 30 | The chemist drew a chair from his dispensary at the rear of the shop and put it down beside the soaps and talcum powders , the bath salts and the loofahs . |