Example sentences of "from [pron] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newley occasionally went there with clients from whom he expected rich pickings . |
| 2 | John always remained very concerned about the designing of his own ballets but was never specifically credited with responsibility for their designs , preferring to collaborate with an artist to whom he could explain his ideas and from whom he expected further ideas to enhance the final outcome . |
| 3 | London representative of a firm of Swiss vintners , from whom he embezzles some money . |
| 4 | As Anne-marie de Waal Malefijt , from whom I borrow these examples , wickedly observes : ‘ If interpreters from similar cultural backgrounds can not agree upon the meanings of symbols , how different must be the symbolic meanings assigned by people with different cultural experience ! ’ |
| 5 | This was the experience of the chaplain from my old school , a man from whom I learnt many secrets of the natural world on hiking trips through the mountains and lakes , sea shores and high cliffs of the English Lake District . |
| 6 | Tales like this inspired him to go and explore for himself ; and apart from them he had another reason . |
| 7 | It was a tiny place — nothing more than a shop knocked through from the street at ground level , no more than 60 feet long At one end was a small bar — from which we sold orange juices on top of the counter with the booze tucked away underneath . |
| 8 | Some feed more or less directly on sediment , from which they extract edible particles . |
| 9 | AT first they build temporary shelters by weaving a kind of palm branch into matting from which they make little houses . |
| 10 | Using samplers , slowed-down tapes , echo-box , fuzz , wah wah , bullhorns , saws , car doors ( from which they got slowed-down squeaking sounds ) , and tapes of cattle lowing , they plumbed new depths of the bass-spectrum , new limits in the degradation and deterioration of sound . |
| 11 | Yet they equally commonly affirm the observation that by taking on additional ‘ jobs ’ from which they derive real enjoyment and satisfaction , their energy and resources seem , paradoxically , to be replenished rather than further drained . |
| 12 | The lineage of Unix System V Release comes from the SVR4.1 Enhanced Security release , from which it inherits B1/B2 security , but SVR4.2 extends the modularity of that release with the isolation of processor-specific source code modules from the main body of common code . |
| 13 | For some people this may be self-imposed ; for me , my work forms part of it — it is something which I enjoy and from which I get considerable satisfaction . |
| 14 | I felt exhausted when I climbed into bed and I fell into a deep sleep from which I awoke next morning refreshed and happier . |
| 15 | You will cross the Firth Viaduct from which you have fine views of the Pentland Hills . |
| 16 | Schweppe had at that time suffered an apoplectic attack from which he died 18 November 1821 , at his home ( Les Petits Crêts ) in Bouchet , Petit Saconnex , Geneva . |
| 17 | During the riot a freelance photographer sustained injuries from which he died three weeks later . |
| 18 | An individual is a member of a community from which he obtains considerable benefits , in return he develops special skills which he applies for the benefit of the community . |
| 19 | Roberts 's fifty included an over from Botham from which he hit twenty-four runs ( 462660 ) , a new Test record for a six-ball over , and Lloyd finally declared on the third morning at 426 for 9 . |
| 20 | However , it is not really necessary to understand exactly what imaginary time is — just that it is different from what we call real time . |
| 21 | He took a piece of tracing paper over the old one though and Germanicised it and took it away from what we call Old English . |
| 22 | It is occasionally possible , just for brief moments , to find the words that will unlock the doors of all those many mansions inside the head and express something — perhaps not much , just something — of the crush of the information that presses in on us from the way a crow flies over and the way a man walks and the look of a street and from what we did one day a dozen years ago . |
| 23 | It is now trying to ram through retrospective legislation to undo a decision of the law lords that ought to save Britain 's building societies from what they consider double taxation . |
| 24 | Agency staffers want the Commission to seek a Federal court injunction barring Microsoft from what they consider abusive practices . |
| 25 | Least , I hope it 's good news , from what you said last night , I think it would be good news . |
| 26 | Quine takes his start not from the familiar case but from what he calls radical translation ( see Quine , 1960 , ch. 2 ) . |
| 27 | He used it in his study of primitive religion , and in his study of the change from what he called mechanical solidarity to organic solidarity . |
| 28 | And without any lead-up she said , ‘ From what I gather some people take the mickey out of her down there because of her name , punning it like , and she being a bit fat . |
| 29 | No , from what I said this morning I meant not being there , without realising that |