Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , where it cut the highway , the steep bank of the river would give them protection from the full force of the hurricane . |
| 2 | In common with any other community , the Deaf Community has had its share of people who have performed deeds of bravery that earned them recognition from the appropriate authorities . |
| 3 | And , perhaps , with this act of treachery I can finally buy my freedom from the burden of buried horror that bound me to Andy twenty years ago , so that — dispossessed of that trespass — I 'm left free to betray him again , now . |
| 4 | You may recall my story from the April issue , headlined No Protection . |
| 5 | I found my way by memory up the stairs and pulled my case from the top of ‘ our ’ wardrobe . |
| 6 | As the 1992 Art Materials Exhibition looms over the horizon , I would like to share my experience from the last exhibition and make a plea for the next . |
| 7 | As the 1992 Art Materials Exhibition looms over the horizon , I would like to share my experience from the last exhibition and make a plea for the next . |
| 8 | I think he must have taken the key for my cottage from the board by the kitchen door . |
| 9 | So I always imagine the pattern spreading outwards across my knitting from the N1 cam until it reaches the point cams , where it stops . |
| 10 | Now that when , as soon as I get my cheque from the British Legion for two hundred , roughly . |
| 11 | ‘ You know I can not abide to light my Woodbine from the campfire . ’ |
| 12 | I drank my coffee and listened while you talked about the Government 's commitment to looking at the quality of life you should be working towards for our people ( or that we should be working towards for your people — I am not quite sure whether your use of the words ‘ we ’ and ‘ our ’ included me or not ) ; but before I could raise the questions that remained in my mind from the night before — let alone my new uncertainty as to what exactly was meant by the expression ‘ the quality of life ’ — a young man had come in and murmured something to you about ‘ the Governor ’ and ‘ the Bank ’ . |
| 13 | Last Sunday you may remember I held up something at the start of the service , and it was my mail from the previous day and we homed in on one buff letter which had H M inspector of taxes in it . |
| 14 | After completing a tour of the baroque wonders of Prague , I decided that my detour from the Danube had lasted long enough , and that it was time to head south again . |
| 15 | This morning I telephoned my agent from the kiosk on the corner of the road to make sure that he had received the first fourteen or fifteen thousand words of my novel and , hopefully , to hear him say that , yes , he thought a publisher would give me a worthwhile advance ( much needed ) on the strength or promise of this sizeable chunk . |
| 16 | My Lord with the greatest respect that that clears my submission from the pleadings , er in the statement of claim . |
| 17 | The teachers were in on my research from the beginning , erm I originally gained the co-operation of the headmaster — he allowed me to come into the school — and then I found the teachers enormously co-operative , in fact , far more cooperative than I had a really had a right to expect . |
| 18 | The teachers were in on my research from the beginning . |
| 19 | Sometime after , pleasantly exhausted , I collected my horse from the stable , saddled it and led it down the causeway out of the manor gate . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd like to know what c- is stealing my lager from the fridge , ’ he thundered in a none too amiable Cockney accent . |
| 21 | I stopped eating on my return from the summer camp mentioned earlier . |
| 22 | Working there was my exit from the straight world . |
| 23 | At the Scotland-Wales match I was severely reprimanded by a steward 30 years my junior for daring to place one foot on the hallowed turf as I made my exit from the ‘ schoolboys ’ enclosure ’ . |
| 24 | Yes I erm I would like to point out that we are looking er very closely at the sales and I 've just had a report on my desk from the head of finance which is the beginning of the discussions in the management team on er the sales erm and relation of loss of sales to profit and so on and the now we , the shop is in that position we 've had time t we have more time to assess how things are working out . |
| 25 | Obviously , I did not receive an answer to my question from the Scottish Office and , even under the priority written procedure , I have not yet received an answer from the Secretary of State for Transport . |
| 26 | I had to lift my gaze from the old dashboard that I had sat in front of for more than sixty years to a new one , and the only new one I knew of displayed the dials and instruments of what is called holistic medicine and which at that time I took to be something I knew virtually nothing about . |
| 27 | I just could nt avert my gaze from the football magazines this lunchtime … |
| 28 | Pulling my coat more closely round me , I turned my attention from the dark shape of the broch and its flitting ghosts to my own situation . |
| 29 | ‘ You 've been trying to divert my attention from the box ! |
| 30 | My gift from the gods . |