Example sentences of "[adv] to [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember Dinah Prentice reading aloud to me from John Prebble 's The Highland Clearances when I was drawing near Arisaig . |
| 2 | She said she had a James III guinea in her possession , an heirloom which had come down to her from her grandfather . ’ |
| 3 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 4 | There seems little doubt that Trow Gill once brought down a stream , this entering as a waterfall at the gap now occupied by boulders , and this theory is confirmed by the dry channel coming directly down to it from the heights above . |
| 5 | Among the conventions for the division of time that have come down to us from Imperial Rome is the seven-day week . |
| 6 | We have a traditional culture , which comes down to us from the time of the Renaissance , and our literature , which is rich , draws its life blood therefrom . |
| 7 | Affective rather than rational , originating by chance hundreds of years ago and according to individual choices made in small communities , later expanding through the demographic growth of tribes and peoples , family systems perpetuate themselves by inertia … this combination of anthropological types , coming down to us from an indeterminate past , has in the twentieth century played a trick on the ideal of modernity . |
| 8 | Our communion service is part of the rich tradition which has been passed down to us from Jesus Christ . |
| 9 | Because our our months have come down to us from all sorts of historical reasons . |
| 10 | One agent in North 's employ remembered being over at CIA headquarters one day when a call came in to him from North , ‘ and everybody in the room gave me a dirty look . ’ |
| 11 | He would always teach trainees : " If a client asks you a question you do n't understand , say — " Hold on a minute sir , a call has just come through to me from the States " — put him on hold then , and ask me . |
| 12 | Last month Trevor Goodall , team leader of the Turning Point project , told me , ‘ Bits of information on the community care changes are filtering through to us from social services , and we think that we will be involved in the assessment process . |
| 13 | The set of favoured firms is likely to be composed mainly of research-intensive firms or firms with enormous manufacturing expertise , and the odds are that such firms may have discovered the information for themselves through their own R&D before it spills over to them from rivals . |
| 14 | Erm what , what was the feeling that came over to you from the tenants ' group at the time ? |
| 15 | We are very happy to have the ceremony again , and welcome the expert , Mrs Sumie Takahashi , who is coming over to us from London . |
| 16 | Are there elements in your upbringing , or the character of your parents or others close to you from whom you have learned , which help to explain or cast light on who you are and how you behave and respond , given certain circumstances ? |
| 17 | He could not find Strawberry but after a time Cowslip came up to him from the other end of the hall . |
| 18 | I 'll hand them up to you from the bottom of the steps , and you stay by the cart . ’ |
| 19 | However , this can be a useful built-in safety factor , as it prevents those who are n't up to it from sailing in waves where they will be a danger to themselves and others . |
| 20 | She could n't see the number from where she was , so she stole through the undergrowth and came up to it from behind . |
| 21 | I held it out to him from the pouch . |
| 22 | Alice Mair had heard the car and came out to him from the kitchen , wiping her hands . |
| 23 | He did n't pause as Dessie Burns called out to him from the hardware shop , he did n't notice Mr Kennedy looking over his glasses at all the bottles and apothecary jars in the window display of the chemist 's shop . |
| 24 | She called out to me from across the room . |
| 25 | But it is a feudalism where inequalities and poverty have been intensified by British colonialism and which has in the last thirty-seven years since independence been in a state of flux caused by the varying stages of capitalism which reach out to it from the towns and cities of the Indian sub-continent . |
| 26 | As soon as we entered the restaurant the proprietor came out to us from the kitchen , rubbing his hands oilier on a tea towel . |
| 27 | " Anywhere , " we called back to him from the bow . |
| 28 | She made it her rule that Belfast , the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army , casual atrocities never crossed her lips , not after his last trip away , because the man who had come back to her from Northern Ireland had been frightened of his own shadow . |
| 29 | Loans frequently come straight back to us from the purchase of Western goods . |
| 30 | Between the Wars the cars were open at first , and drivers had to be well-clad in oilskins to avoid the cascade of water which poured on to them from the canopy of the open-fronted trams . |