Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed my wife believes that if when I die I am cut in half , the letters ICI will be found stamped through me from top to bottom , like Blackpool rock . |
| 2 | I felt my face go red , as red as it was physically possible for it to go red , and a surge of hate and rage and fear swept through me from nerve ending to brain cell to nerve ending . |
| 3 | There was little sympathy for them from club officials , with ‘ apathy ’ one of the words used to describe their attitude . |
| 4 | ‘ This course is made for me from tee to green but I 've got a lot to learn on the greens , ’ he said . |
| 5 | They were much less gentle than the water-buffalo , which spend most of their lives doing nothing , wallowing up to their ears in mudpools , while pampered and scrubbed by the little boys who are assigned to look after them from birth . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ When your brother Maurice 's wife was ill and David was an infant I understand you looked after him from time to time . ’ |
| 7 | BELVILLE : I hope , Lady Davers , she can make as great a convert of you from pride as she has of me from libertinism . |
| 8 | Erm , mainly out of perversity , I do admit , because I must be the only social scientist of my generation who 's read all of them from cover to cover . |
| 9 | And Nicolo had trampled on all of them from day one , and she was damned well going to tell that to him tomorrow morning , after she said goodbye to Anna and … |
| 10 | ToolChest will be widely distributed initially to some 25,000 ISVs and end-user software developers , the bulk of them from Sun and SunSoft rosters , the rest from Unix International . |
| 11 | Nearly 19,000 jobs disappeared last year , 6,000 of them from management . |
| 12 | My Bill would exempt many of them from prescription charges . |
| 13 | Peacock scored more than a quarter of United 's goals last season — many of them from midfield . |
| 14 | Those of them from East Africa were , before they came here , middle-class or lower middle-class . |
| 15 | BELVILLE : I hope , Lady Davers , she can make as great a convert of you from pride as she has of me from libertinism . |
| 16 | It is a real link , not just a ‘ we 'll be thinking of you from time to time ’ relationship . |
| 17 | WML is a real link not just a ‘ we 'll be thinking of you from time to time ’ . |
| 18 | Could n't believe any difference of him from Christmas when he did n't say anything |
| 19 | Sir Philip Egerton having been kind enough to give me a Frank I embrace the opportunity to send you some account of Mr. Gould and his movements , presuming that as you expressed a wish to hear of him from time to time , a letter on this subject might not be devoid of interest . |
| 20 | As the summer came I could take the pram along the Hastings promenade , and meet up with an old form mate of mine from school days . |
| 21 | I do n't even attempt to do any of it from memory . |
| 22 | Although it achieved classic status , it did not become generally known until the late Victorian period , when Frances Hodgson Burnett [ q.v. ] , who had read the book as a child , retold part of it from memory in St Nicholas in 1887 , and the proper text was ‘ rediscovered ’ . |
| 23 | One or two members already had some knowledge of it from press reports and Black 's fellow employees in Short Brothers . |
| 24 | The audience can pick up the dramatic thread running through the cadenza and make sense of it from beginning to end . ’ |
| 25 | The first is the energy , most of it from fossil fuels , required by modern agriculture and the system which delivers its produce to the customers ; the other , the peaking of the ‘ miracle grain ’ revolution . |
| 26 | With government grants and private sector donations of £100,000 , much of it from paper and plastics group Bunzl , NI set up a series of programmes to clean the estate and create more jobs . |
| 27 | Other high figures come from Central America and Mexico , where 24 per cent of soils are seriously degraded , and Africa , with 14 per cent soil loss , much of it from wind erosion from overgrazed pastures in arid areas such as the Sahel and much of South Africa . |
| 28 | ‘ -if I knew of the lady 's death before Monday morning , I learnt of it from Monsieur de Craon . ’ |
| 29 | The routine of the annexe on Friday after school was disturbed by Mr Crumwallis making ineffectual invasions of it from time to time . |
| 30 | A couple of us from work are in the 90 Minutes Magazine one . |