Example sentences of "[pron] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's a bit noisy , ’ said someone from Lotus as the booming voices from Microsoft and Borland reverberated around the hall . |
| 2 | Are you the type who thinks god there 's someone from Spain over there , oh it 's alright there 's a load of people from my nationality in the bar and stick with them . |
| 3 | The job description for the post has come — not for me , not enough experience and they want someone with multi-site retail experience as well as PR experience , ie someone from PR in banking , insurance or building society . |
| 4 | If we seek to protect ourselves from doubt in matters of belief , the result will be ‘ inactivity ’ . |
| 5 | We try to pretend that sex is n't so important , that we are just like everyone else , just as we sought to distance ourselves from books like The Milkman 's On His Way during the Section 28 debates . |
| 6 | As soon as we removed ourselves from eyries at Television Centre and Broadcasting House , people began saying to us that the key subject we had to look at was one of portrayal and representation on air . |
| 7 | ‘ We all have to think of ourselves from time to time , do n't we ? ’ |
| 8 | I am yours from night to day , from day to night . ’ |
| 9 | Trollope does not suffer much himself from prickings of conscience ( though whether his diamonds are real or paste is another matter ) . |
| 10 | He disentangled himself from Madra before dawn to share his watch with Bicker , and the two of them saw the sun come up . |
| 11 | Mr Endara was moved to distance himself from proposals in Washington to support anti-Noriega parties with CIA funds , describing the scheme as ‘ insulting ’ . |
| 12 | US President George Bush , concerned above all to hold together an anti-Iraq coalition in the Gulf which included key Arab allies , had quite openly distanced himself from Israel in recent months . |
| 13 | He had stripped naked , running his shorts halfway up the ankle-chain to keep them dry , and sponged himself from head to foot , scouring his skin with the sponge to try to keep clean . |
| 14 | Now what do you reckon is the most difficult … the most dangerous job in sport … boxer … jump jockey … racing driver you could argue all night could n't you … what about a chap who has to protect himself from head to foot … gets fired at … and skates on ice … in other words the netminder in ice hockey … see for yourself in our Friday Feature |
| 15 | He examined himself from head to foot , assessing without vanity the beauty that had once given him an honest pleasure , and he marked without fear the changes that moved in upon him now daily . |
| 16 | He spat the stuff from his lips , then began the long difficult scramble up the hillside , hauling himself from tree to tree by clinging to the network of roots growing above ground . |
| 17 | Moreover , the employer can only protect himself from activities by his employee which might reasonably affect the customer connection which has been built up . |
| 18 | He saves himself from inconsistency by criticism , in each case , of the harsh rule of a son and successor ( Thrasydaios at Akragas and Deinomenes at Syracuse ) ; but as with the fall of the tyrannies of old Greece there are deeper causes . |
| 19 | At his trial at the end of January 1990 , Postelnicu blubbed out his guilt in connection with the shootings in Timişoara and the incineration of the forty victims there , but he was anxious to defend himself from charges of cupidity . |
| 20 | McStay does not absolve himself from blame for Celtic 's poor season . |
| 21 | The Unfair Contract Terms Act does not totally prohibit the seller from exempting himself from liability for breach of these other terms . |
| 22 | Thus , by section 8 , the private seller can not exempt himself from liability for misrepresentation unless he can show that the exemption clause satisfies the requirement of reasonableness . |
| 23 | It is impossible for the seller to exempt himself from liability under section 12 of the Sale of Goods Act . |
| 24 | Brady does not absolve himself from criticism over his part in that state of affairs . |
| 25 | He also distances himself from approaches to the study of media ‘ impact ’ which conceive of them in a fairly narrow way . |
| 26 | Backwards , raising himself from step to step on his backside . |
| 27 | The Popular Front suspended the MDP 's membership , and on July 28 expelled Yameogo himself from membership of the Front . |
| 28 | Under section 18(1) of the Act a patient who absented himself from hospital without leave could be taken into custody and returned to the hospital ; and the police had all their usual powers for the purpose ( s.137(2) ) including power , under section 17(1) ( d ) of PACE to enter and search premises for recapturing a person unlawfully at large . |
| 29 | He discharged himself from hospital against medical advice , saying he could not bear to be in the same building as Keith Pringle , the man police are waiting to interview about a 47hour armed siege in Darlington . |
| 30 | After all , closeted anonymously in the Iranian Embassy on avenue d'léna , it was easy to distance himself from events beyond its railings . |