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 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | There 's just point if anyone , someone from head office goes in . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When the Allies protested , Franco distanced himself from personal involvement and promised that something would be done . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Ben Jonson , a ‘ scholarship boy ’ whose ability with language allowed him to gain social advancement , is keen to distance himself from popular writing whose techniques he so skilfully employs . |
| 15 | Conran also disputes the suggestion that it must be difficult for a man so wrapped up in design to divorce himself from detailed involvement in the creative process in order to tackle the numerous other tasks that befall a captain of industry . |
| 16 | Nobody from Australian cricket officialdom and not one member of the Australian team saw us off . |
| 17 | It 's full of hope and warmth , and utterly convincing , down to the catch in Christy 's voice , which from past experience , I know to be genuine . |
| 18 | In this epistle he indicates that he himself , at the time of writing , is a solitary attracted by the disciplined life of service in a religious order , but does not feel any burning conviction that that is his calling : I confess , alas , that I do not feel that burning spiritual desire for entry into religion , inspired by that divine grace , as it ought to be felt by those who from zealous devotion and pure desire of the mind plan to enter religion … |
| 19 | A two season bag will take you from late spring to early autumn , and a three-season bag can be used for all but winter conditions . |
| 20 | To end this features roundup , we need to mention timecode generation facilities ( VITC or RCTC ) for frame-accurate editing — see Chapter 8 for more on this new development ; ‘ edit switches ’ for optimising the quality of your camcorder 's video signal output when copying tapes onto another machine ; remote control handsets for camcorders ; and SP/LP sliders to switch you from Standard recording speed to Long Play . |
| 21 | Sleeping bags all have season ratings — from one to five — taking you from hot summer nights to high mountain winter camps . |
| 22 | Even if the full Moon in Libra and at the mid- heaven point of your solar chart on the 10th brings about a complete break from the past , both professionally and personally , it will remove the dead wood which has prevented you from living life to its very fullest . |
| 23 | That way you will not burn off too many calories which might prevent you from increasing muscle size . |
| 24 | ‘ These clothes protect you from radioactive dust , ’ he said . |
| 25 | A cable car takes you from nearby Ehrwald to the Zugspitzkamm station at 9,203 feet which has been partly blasted out of the rock . |
| 26 | Now Dorothy 's ‘ I wonder why you keep going to sea … ’ detaches itself from simple classification ; its very phrasing has emotional overtones . |
| 27 | So long as such men as Willaert , Verdelot , and Arcadelt held posts in Venice , Florence , and Rome that is , until the mid-century or after Italian music can not be said to have emancipated itself from northern tutelage . |
| 28 | 789 ( CS 262 : S 1183 ) , but whether Lindsey detached itself from Mercian control in 757–8 and , if so , how long an interval elapsed before Offa reasserted himself is unknown . |
| 29 | Jonah ( portrayed as everything from muscular faun to bearded elder ) has an iconography whose pedigree and variety would make Noah envious . |
| 30 | The kit contains everything from antiseptic cream and scissors to a thermometer . |