Example sentences of "[pron] from a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In my experience , clients will not give up their contacts amongst the trade media and they feel at their most confident when talking to someone from a publication in their own trade or profession .
2 He remembered the menacing phone-calls to Nicola and wondered aloud whether someone from a drugs syndicate had been trying to scare her .
3 ‘ I interviewed someone from a rape camp in Doboj .
4 And if , for example , rescuing someone from a hole meant destroying priceless Michaelangelo 's to get to him I would n't even see that as a real choice .
5 ‘ No , it would have to be someone from a family of rank , would n't it ?
6 Someone from a hostel in London came to see me and said they would have me , so when I went to court in Sheffield the judge decided to put me on bail for four weeks , on condition that I stayed at the hostel and that I did n't drink , and also if I attended the Jules Thorn psychiatric unit , which is part of St Pancras Hospital , for a ten-day assessment .
7 ‘ Of course at first I just thought it was someone from a boat that had been driven in by the weather .
8 But , what I 'm saying is , if you , salesmen particularly get one , you 'll need one to get round the country your patch , but you need to get familiar with the towns up and down the country for deli , for delivery , cos your customers will talk about the area and you 're talking to someone from a transport café , you have n't got a clue where the towns are .
9 It was the twang in her vowels that commanded attention , people thought to themselves ‘ here 's someone from a Woody Allen movie . ’
10 Detective Sergeant Cedric Jones said Mr Banks hanged himself from a hifi speaker bracket on his bedroom wall .
11 In Jennings , above , the accused had a sheathknife to protect himself from a person with whom he had been quarrelling .
12 A MAN hanged himself from a tree in a busy shopping centre — but no one noticed his body for at least two days .
13 Neil responded by lifting the cane high , ready to defend himself from a man who he saw was bigger , and probably stronger , than himself .
14 The thirty-minute flight was followed by twenty minutes in a truck to a dilapidated harbour where a black-skinned man hauled himself from a motor boat on to the patched wooden dock .
15 In recounting the story of his life , he assumes a variety of identities and gives multiple conflicting versions of events in a contradictory attempt to acquire the sense of identity he has always lacked and to conceal himself from a world by which he has always felt persecuted .
16 ‘ In the early 1990s there will be an opportunity to free himself from a role he does not want . ’
17 Oswald sat up , shaking his head as if freeing himself from a trance .
18 And then , restraining himself from a farewell blast on the Dixie horn , he 'd set out for Liston Hall .
19 He hanged himself from a piece of sheet attached to a ventilation grille .
20 In 1829 a convicted prisoner petitioned that he should have been allowed to free himself from a charge of robbery by rendering compensation .
21 She reminded him of somebody from a movie , maybe it was Kathleen Turner in Body Heat , sometimes Kim Basinger in 9½ Weeks .
22 Smith compiled his innings despite a cold picked up since his return to ‘ work ’ on Monday , which forced him home prematurely in his new car , number plate JII DGE — which from a distance appears to spell out his nickname of Judge , acquired because of his wavy hair .
23 The morning 's visit to the harbour at Porthleven was just one of a whole series of annual ‘ hits ’ and demonstrations carried out by the campaign group Surfers Against Sewage [ SAS ] , which from a St Agnes office has now swelled to close to 7,000 members across the country .
24 ‘ I am presently endeavouring to protect you from a race that considers all human life to be a dangerous , parasitic infection .
25 It might be apparent to you from a description of marketing research techniques that many of these techniques depend on comparisons between different countries .
26 The message here is that romantic cliches may safeguard you from a heart attack and prevent you making a fool of yourself .
27 ‘ He saves you from a beating with remarkable ease and skill , yet you remain as blind and dull-witted as an earthworm .
28 The benefit of getting it there early and a little leap word which takes you from a feature to a benefit
29 Like steam coming at you from a cooking pot over a camp fire .
30 On the other hand , you know all there is to be known about me : born Bigley Road , Grays , in Essex , twenty-six years old , wife Alice … who says if she had met you afore me I would n't have had a look-in — and she only saw you from a distance . ’
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