Example sentences of "to [pers pn] from the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between the Wars the cars were open at first , and drivers had to be well-clad in oilskins to avoid the cascade of water which poured on to them from the canopy of the open-fronted trams . |
| 2 | Calling them " temporary workers " merely made their situation clear to them from the start of their employment . |
| 3 | He said , ‘ Sickness has given me this fortune that this sultan has come to my side , at morn so health and well being have accrued to me from the arrival of this King without retinue . |
| 4 | Then he muttered to me from the corner of his mouth . |
| 5 | Of his death , the only reference found is the entry in Maskelyne 's account book for 13 March 1784 : ‘ Recd of Mrs Grace Sisson , thro ’ the hands of Mr Henry Robin Auctioneer my dividend for £88.14.11 due to me from the Estate of the late Jerh Sisson — £15.0.0 — and gave it to the Widow . ’ |
| 6 | As you know , these programmes come to you from the University of Sussex , and if you 've listened to any of them in the past , you 'll know that they 're devoted to topics and subjects in which we feel we have some expertise , and which we think would be of special interest to the local community . |
| 7 | This programme comes to you from the University of Sussex . |
| 8 | I 'll hand them up to you from the bottom of the steps , and you stay by the cart . ’ |
| 9 | This point should be familiar to you from the discussion of long-wave , world-system and regulationist theories in Chapters 1 and 2 . |
| 10 | He had the whalebone sent to him from the port of Leith from where several whalers operated . |
| 11 | A French attack was mounted on the duchy of Aquitaine , but the day was saved by the able lieutenancy exercised there by Richard of Cornwall , and by large loans to him from the cities of Bordeaux and Bayonne . |
| 12 | He was only jolted out of his misery when he approached the front door leading to his much-maligned flat and , as he struggled to pull his keys out of his right pocket with his left hand , a voice spoke to him from the shadows of the front porch . |
| 13 | The exact date of the Vendôme charter , in which Count Bouchard gave full details of the military service owed to him from the area of Vendôme , is still controversial ; but it is now accepted as an authentic document of the time of Fulk Nerra or Geoffrey Martel . |
| 14 | Vehicles started up again and a familiar voice shouted to him from the side of the truck . |
| 15 | Finally , at the fifteenth count , Q had 1,704 voted transferred to him from the surplus of McDowell ( PD ) , elected , who had had votes transferred to him from twelve other candidates , F , H , B , Cr , O'S , E , M , R , S , McA , B and D. |
| 16 | At first he sounded distant , as if he was calling to her from the basement of a big house , but he came nearer very quickly and suddenly he was shouting in her ear . |
| 17 | The early history was familiar to her from the memoir of the founder which stood in limp green leather covers on Gilbert Racy 's shelves at Betterhouse . |
| 18 | Lakatos assumed that any field of enquiry that does not share the main characteristics of physics is not science and is inferior to it from the point of view of rationality . |
| 19 | Loans frequently come straight back to us from the purchase of Western goods . |
| 20 | Collectors would give anything for the chance to hear him project his art to us from the clarity of a recording studio . |
| 21 | Evidence of such allowances comes to us from the time of Augustus Caesar . |
| 22 | We have a traditional culture , which comes down to us from the time of the Renaissance , and our literature , which is rich , draws its life blood therefrom . |