Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that a number of vice-chancellors see the fees scheme as a way of getting the Government off the universities ' backs , giving them freedom from detailed control . |
| 2 | I did my sketch from that doctor 's house . |
| 3 | I had an easy 2 hour labour and there I suddenly was , holding my beautiful baby daughter Danielle in my arms and the last thing on my mind from that moment on was work . |
| 4 | I am a solicitor in a busy city centre practice and this time last year I was your typical workaholic — at my desk from 7 am to 7 pm Monday to Friday , and occasionally Saturday as well . |
| 5 | My inheritance from those years is the belief maintained with some difficulty , that I do have a right to the earth . |
| 6 | They can only be resolved at great danger to myself and so I beg you , my Lord , to order my withdrawal from this country for Satan walks here . |
| 7 | My opinion from last year , is that they are far too young to actually be put into this |
| 8 | The dishes he filled seemed indistinguishable to my eye from run-of-the-mill cottage pie except they were rather blacker round the edges than is normal , and they were accompanied by the garnish of a quarter of a raw tomato , two cucumber slices , a sprinkling of cress ( or maybe lawn clippings ) , and a tired , pre-chewed lettuce leaf without which no British pub meal is complete these days . |
| 9 | Now awareness of other persons similarly depends on synthesizing perception of their bodies with imagining and feeling from their viewpoints , and awareness of myself on synthesizing imagination of my body from other viewpoints with perceiving and feeling from my own ; otherwise I would become , to vary Ryle 's dictum that the mind has been commonly conceived as ‘ a ghost in a machine ’ , a ghost in the company of machines , no longer aware that I resemble other people in the respects in which they resemble each other . |
| 10 | It had been impossible to stop my body from charging but now it was impossible to fight off the fatigue . |
| 11 | Now my my conclusion from that , and I think is a conclusion which has been supported by the public on con during the consultation exercise on the Greater York study , was that peripheral development around Greater York would have an undue impact on the historic character of the city , and that of course is the fundamental , the protection of which is of course a fundamental aim of planning around Greater York . |
| 12 | Such was this verse of mine dating from that time : |
| 13 | Authorship is identity in the textual sphere , and hence gay people , like all marginal groups , have , at present , a political stake in wanting to hold on to the Author despite her/his expulsion from prevailing postmodernist theories . |
| 14 | They agreed to transport the wheelbarrow on those days when I was able to carry supplies on my back from one village to the next . |
| 15 | And I had to get a box and many a time I 've fallen on my back from that so Cos somebody had moved the boxes I think . |
| 16 | It goes out my head from one week to the next , I ca n't keep it , I know what I 'm doing |
| 17 | The flinty little synthetic poop poop music runs around in my head from last time . |
| 18 | Darcy focuses his own feelings on an Eritrean woman , a ‘ splendid bureaucrat ’ now based in Frankfurt but currently visiting the front line to renew her networks of information , and dreams hazily of a future sexual relationship with her until he discovers that she had once undergone , at the hands of the Dergue , such stomach-churning extremes of physical torture that ‘ my distance from such a height of anguish disqualified me . ’ |
| 19 | my stuff from last week , where did where was it ? |
| 20 | But you will be receiving notification of the said meeting taking place and my colleague from Northern Irela Wales Northern Ireland , perhaps if you could have a chat with me in the corridor , I may be able to do something which can help you alleviate the sa situation between us . |
| 21 | My plan was to increase my pace from normal ( around 3 miles per hour ) to brisk ( 3.5–4.0 miles per hour ) and to walk longer and further as the weeks went by . |
| 22 | I learned my lesson from this , and opened a new bank account in the name of Hyde . |
| 23 | Other pictures took the place of these ; Neil 's tent , not far up the brae , and the possibility not only , at worst , of having its shelter for the night , but of my seeing from that vantage point when Neil came back with his boat . |
| 24 | I saw my dissociation from limp heroines as an achievement rather than a betrayal of my sex . |
| 25 | Obviously the way it tumbled — nay , cascaded — down on to the Gyggle chest had close associations with those prophetic beards that lingered in my memory from many hours of tilted observation in cathedrals and museums , yet something about the beard 's rigidity , its apparent inflexibility , said Assyria , Sumeria . |
| 26 | Another incident which sticks in my memory from those final years at school concerned a friend of mine , Nelly Mitchell . |
| 27 | Dear Mr Tatchell When I lived in Bermondsey , until my family were bombed out while I was fighting to protect my country from outside evils , we had a saying , Bermondsey was a place where men were men and women counted as ‘ manholes ’ and members of the ‘ Middlesex Regiment ’ would not be tolerated . |
| 28 | I am a ‘ down-to-earth ’ scientist and get my reading from scientific journals . |
| 29 | A relaxed jogging programme for 20 minutes , three times a week , for six weeks improved my fitness from just average to the " high good " category . |
| 30 | Peres 's efforts to form a new government were thwarted a matter of hours before the April 11 Knesset confidence debate was set to open when two of the five ultra-orthodox Agudat Yisrael members withdrew their support from Labour , saying that they could not support a government sustained by Arab supporters of the Palestine Liberation Organization . |