Example sentences of "[pron] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added thoughtfully , ‘ I was going to call in someone from the other practice , but I do n't see why … ’ |
| 2 | In practice it means that the keynote lecture will be given by someone from the New World . |
| 3 | Erm , and I also understand that this is the first time you 've actually had someone from the private sector , er , whose been invited to er , address your A G M so , I 'd like to thank you for the privilege , and for also for the opportunity to speak on a subject which I personally er , find of of great interest . |
| 4 | Someone from the Mutual Life Provident might drop in … ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , ’ Gioella said dismissively , ‘ just someone from the far past . |
| 6 | And then I met someone from the Kaplan galleries which showed thinking bishops in their robes such as you see in the windows of the galleries in St James'/ The gallery had just taken on a new director and were proposing to show modern art — people like Tinguely and Marcelle Cahn who at that time were n't known . |
| 7 | If you 're gay you 're reviled , but Cube has always revealed the sick shit from the grubby corners of his mind , and you ca n't expect someone from the wasted landscape of black urban America to think like a white liberal . |
| 8 | I tipped the wink to a pal of mine who 's big in local government , and he managed to fix it for someone from the public health authority to write a letter full of threats and demands and legal gobbledegook . |
| 9 | Perhaps after all it was nothing more than that the man reminded him of someone from the old days , and it was not unknown for people from the palace compound to slum in the harbour quarter now and then . |
| 10 | Worse , he 's spent the last hour with someone from the Daily Express . |
| 11 | They met again in February to hear an address given by someone from the Scottish Temperance League , and in Ballygrant in March when the Chairman gave an address in the Gaelic ; seven more joined . |
| 12 | They met again in February to hear an address given by someone from the Scottish Temperance League , and in Ballygrant in March when the Chairman gave an address in the Gaelic ; seven more joined . |
| 13 | And not until I have someone from the American embassy present . ’ |
| 14 | At Key Stages 1 and 2 , these might include someone from the local archaeological unit , the museum or archives or a local historian , especially someone used to speaking to young children . |
| 15 | A week later someone from the social services came to see us . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , ’ she replies eagerly , ‘ someone from the British Committee is supposed to be meeting me . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ My first reaction was to get someone from the British Transport Police , but the door of their office was locked . |
| 18 | Here they were , a tiny outpost in the Diaspora , and someone from the very heart of Jewry had come to address them , someone so important that his coming all that way proved they were important , too . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , there was a strong tendency in some constituencies for voters to " plump " for one candidate and waste their second vote , rather than give it to someone from the opposing party . |
| 20 | It serves his purpose if someone from the Socialist Workers jeers him , for he answers with jokes , then reminds his audience that the stooges are the ugly face of socialism . |
| 21 | It is important that someone from the senior management team should exercise day-to-day oversight and responsibility for Compact activities . |
| 22 | They sang together , played by ear on the old upright that someone from the big house had thrown out and they had retrieved . |
| 23 | Nor do I believe that it can be said that in no way can we disentangle ourselves from the religious myth which we have inherited . |
| 24 | ‘ We are confident we have done nothing wrong , but need to protect ourselves from the arbitrary and capricious actions of our adversaries . ’ |
| 25 | Yet we all of us swim between the outside world and the internal , trying to look at ourselves from the outside and also looking from the inside at the world , having a sense of ourselves and how we look that may be variable and dependent on many things — mood , confirmation from others , self-esteem , changing trends in what is considered attractive . |
| 26 | But we wanted from the start to dissociate ourselves from the arrogant and ignorant belief that in some mysterious way English is superior to other languages , and that children who speak Bengali or Hindi at home should abandon these languages as soon as possible . |
| 27 | Moore contends that if , having freed ourselves from the naturalistic fallacy , we ask what are the chief good things known to us , we will conclude that they are personal affection and the enjoyment of beautiful objects . |
| 28 | So when we have real emotions about someone , we lift ourselves from the shallow level of selfishness into the real and eternal . |
| 29 | I mean Mr Chairman it may just say honestly , I mean this is among ourselves from the commercial point of view there 's no doubt about it , I 'm in the grocery trade , the more you get on a lorry when you deliver you get every single |
| 30 | In a controversial aspect of the data collection , the subjects were allowed to think that the tape recorder had been switched off after the formal interviews , and were encouraged to talk informally by a young white member of the research team , who dissociated himself from the preceding interviews and " spent the duration of the recording sitting on the floor " ( Edwards 1986 : 74 ) . |