Example sentences of "[pron] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And how far am I from the signpost ? ’ |
| 2 | Almost a third of the pupils were obliged to eat worm-cakes and do their busy on sheets of newspaper until someone from the clinic was satisfied that they were no longer a threat to the health of fellow-pupils . |
| 3 | ‘ Someone from the clinic ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ She says he met someone from the convent on the night that Lady Eleanor died , and that Father Reynard did go to Godstowe but then disappeared until the next morning . ’ |
| 5 | We tend to assess people through what they say and the way they say it , to come to conclusions about whether we will like someone from the way they present themselves in words . |
| 6 | right , I mean I 'm not quite sure how Coslow will go about things , I mean the reason we wanted someone from Coslow is cos we wanted someone from the Federation of Scottish Theatre cos we had n't heard for a while |
| 7 | I 've got someone from the village coming in every day to check that no one tries making a nuisance of themselves . |
| 8 | ‘ Someone from the village , you said , ’ Lewis persisted . |
| 9 | It must have been someone from the village , Rose said : who else would be walking in the woods at that hour ? |
| 10 | It could be someone from the village . |
| 11 | But there 's still a feeling of unease amid police suggestions that someone from the village could be covering up for the killer . |
| 12 | Whenever there was a vacancy at his newspaper for a trainee reporter , he loyally gave the first opportunity to someone from the school . |
| 13 | ‘ In an ideal world , I would have been delighted to have had someone from the university on the trust . ’ |
| 14 | The next Archdeacon of Woodborough is to be someone from the north , someone called Daniel Byrne . ’ |
| 15 | He was left with the distinct feeling that he had encountered someone from the spirit world on that early midsummer 's morning . |
| 16 | ‘ For example , in a utility company engineering will be important but in a financial services business computers play a much more vital role and so someone from the IT department will be essential . ’ |
| 17 | Someone from the factory phoned me . |
| 18 | It was believed someone from the Academy was helping Mann with the finance and distribution of the drugs . |
| 19 | I 'm afraid Dr. Zimmerman is n't here just now , but he left me a message that someone from the telephone company might call in . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought the initial communication between the medical team arriving on the scene and the county services was inadequate , ’ said someone from the back , and Rachel sighed as she recognised the voice of one of the union safety representatives renowned for his attention to detail and resigned herself to a lengthy session . |
| 21 | He was tempted to tell her to hire someone from the gutter press if she wanted more earthy writing , or some bloody feminist if she wanted a sensitive novel . |
| 22 | The programme pretty well began with an interview with someone from the Bundesbank which , as running orders go , is a bit like a long-jumper beginning his approach with his laces tied . |
| 23 | As to whether change is necessary or not one can not help pay some regard of that phenomenon of the post war world , Japan : If time travel was a fact and it was possible to transport someone from the middle of the social scale of Victorian Britain to the present time , he would think a revolution had taken place ; but the basic ground rules of social life and commerce would shortly become comprehensible to him . |
| 24 | ‘ Why is it sick to dress like someone from the past ? |
| 25 | Someone from the publicity department of his publishers had set it up . |
| 26 | Her strange deep voice pronounced the words like a parody of someone from the Trento area , where the warm and cold currents of Italian and German meet and mingle . |
| 27 | my Lord , my Lord er unless I 've miss understood your Lordship it fits in the sense that if you think that unreasonably or even unfairly disclude someone from the market , you 're are excluding someone who would compete in the market , you 're taking someone out who may of had an impact on the market , may of brought prices down , offer better terms and conditions |
| 28 | ‘ He 's still working on the theory that they were killed by someone from the neighbourhood who resented them and their prosperity . ’ |
| 29 | Alternatively , the killer was someone from the house who had secured the door to ensure privacy , but opened it again after his crime to confirm the impression that an outsider was involved . |
| 30 | ‘ At the last pre-inquiry meeting someone from the Department of Transport jumped up and said it was the first he had heard of the pylons , ’ she said . |