Example sentences of "from [pron] [pron] [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 Take your word for it … but from someone who takes 5 mins to find a toilet when being told and it being right in front of them ; - ) ) ) )
8 It is in the initial anticipation that the middle class will show respect that the bias lies , for where this deference is lacking , even from someone who appears middle class , a variant of the gouger typification comes into force .
9 This much is perhaps to be expected from someone who faced insurmountable difficulties in coping with the work .
10 Even if not as ancient or beautiful as the Charles Bridge , it is a lovely artefact from which one commands splendid views of the Parliament Building and of the skylines of Buda and Pest .
11 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 .
12 Some feed more or less directly on sediment , from which they extract edible particles .
13 AT first they build temporary shelters by weaving a kind of palm branch into matting from which they make little houses .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 I felt exhausted when I climbed into bed and I fell into a deep sleep from which I awoke next morning refreshed and happier .
19 You will cross the Firth Viaduct from which you have fine views of the Pentland Hills .
20 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 .
21 During the riot a freelance photographer sustained injuries from which he died three weeks later .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 We will see later that a model of the company infused with the imagery of contract , suggesting negotiation and mutually beneficial exchange , or at least optimal , market-induced equilibria , supports a different analytical and evaluative approach to current corporate governance arrangements from one which views those arrangements as partially shaped by management power , but that is a different debate from the one in which we are currently engaged .
25 I note in the June PFK that you would like to hear from anyone who grows tropical water lilies .
26 I would , therefore , be most grateful to hear from anyone who has any memories or anecdotes of the company pre-1959 , whether from customers , employees or other analysts of that era .
27 However , it is not really necessary to understand exactly what imaginary time is — just that it is different from what we call real time .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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