Example sentences of "[pron] from [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mr Williams agreed to get someone from Grand Met to meet all the landlords affected . |
| 2 | Someone from Central Admin , with a sharkish smile , hands out the evening 's assignments . |
| 3 | They stood or sat in groups on all the branches around Little Billy , staring at him as though he were someone from outer space . |
| 4 | When we speak to a child , or to someone from another culture , we can easily estimate this knowledge incorrectly . |
| 5 | ‘ So it 's someone from another part of town . ’ |
| 6 | And even if someone from another age is standing on this spot , a ghostly paintbrush in her hand , her eyes would n't see what I see . |
| 7 | But I preferred to think that you were … well , you know … someone from another planet . |
| 8 | Gin had been the great popular comfort of Paradise Street in her childhood , gin and tea , so she took it as someone from another background might have made a dish of bread and milk . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've been refusing that man a cheque book for months but he just went inside and someone from senior management , who has n't been behind a counter for years , just hands one over without a thought . ’ |
| 10 | It does n't have to be someone from this parish council , maybe other people are interested , or prepared to attend . |
| 11 | There 's just point if anyone , someone from head office goes in . |
| 12 | They said that at , someone from third year last year er , she said that Professor is having an extra lecture you know , telling what 's on the exam those things . |
| 13 | Someone from British Coal rang a bemused Rob Gretton to find out what ‘ the political content of the record was ’ as , what with the goings-on with the imminent pit closures they claim not to want any more adverse publicity ! |
| 14 | This does not mean that we can not be friends with an unbeliever — obviously , we can not reach people for Christ if we insulate ourselves from non-Christian company . |
| 15 | We stopped by an empty building and disentangled ourselves from each other . |
| 16 | Without shyness , without hiding ourselves from each other , we undressed . |
| 17 | Sometimes this seemed indicated , as when he told the legislature they must beware ‘ When we are freeing ourselves from one form of imperialism [ against those who would ] … bind us to another one which would swiftly undo all the work that has been done in recent years to foster … a free and independent nation ’ ; ‘ As we would not have British masters , so we would not have Russian masters . ’ |
| 18 | They were opposed by Anthony Cary , Lord Falkland , a Tory , who argued that the throne should not be filled until Parliament had decided what powers to give the Crown , so that " we may secure ourselves from Arbitrary Government " , although in this he was supported by radical Whigs such as Wildman . |
| 19 | And what we have found that is the county , Harrogate certainly and ourselves from direct experience this last two years , is that one of the features , we have an attractive county to such inward investors , its its environment , its people , its setting , its air and everything else is good , but one of the features that we have so far been unable to offer is a planning framework which means that the marketing authority can deliver , guarantee delivery of the planning consent that would make it happen . |
| 20 | on nine , facing Tufnell , digs out a full-length ball and guides it down on the off side , poor old David Lawrence has to give another painful chase their from backward point , but er , he lumbers after it and sends it an energetic return on the er , he 's swivelling round as he threw it . |
| 21 | It is interesting to note that this example shows that what underlies Hobbes 's rejection of formal causes is , perhaps , no more than an impatience with what the Aristotelians said about them , and a desire to disassociate himself from that tradition . |
| 22 | Not necessarily that of mother and son ; Steve had detached himself from that hook and would never be hung on it again . |
| 23 | When one of the fattest hailed him when he was out shopping he decided he must disassociate himself from that crowd . |
| 24 | Will he dissociate himself from that comment and will he take action today to see that the hon. Gentleman concerned is ’ liberated ’ from his ministerial duties ? |
| 25 | The earl had sat well back from between the bristling champions , absolving himself from all responsibility here except to keep the peace and harmony of his hall . |
| 26 | ’ He made a face , exonerating himself from such indelicacy . |
| 27 | Webb 's finest hour came in 1984 when , with Derby just days away from going out of business with debts of £1.5 million , he promoted himself from managing director to chairman . |
| 28 | When the Allies protested , Franco distanced himself from personal involvement and promised that something would be done . |
| 29 | We went out to breakfast with Mr Robinson , a pleasant but prosy old gentleman who told us a complicated tale of a bust of Wieland , retrieved by himself from unworthy oblivion , to the great delight of Goethe and other literary eminences . |
| 30 | Mr Tebbit was keen yesterday to distance himself from any comparison with Mr Powell . |