Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , if you are going to be discussing inner city problems , speaking about them from a beautiful stately home deep in the heart of the countryside lessens the impact somewhat ! |
| 2 | The Dean of York presided and addressed the gathering for nearly an hour on the subject of " The History of the Deaf and Facts about Them from the Earliest Era " . |
| 3 | Again it was as if something stared through them from the other side . |
| 4 | The reappearance , first and most immediately , of Eanfrith and subsequently of Oswald in Bernician territory at so crucial a moment in the history of the northern Angles could imply military assistance for them from the Picts or the Scots or both and even perhaps a certain ability to act in concert with the British king , Cadwallon . |
| 5 | However , since Brezhnev 's proposals for the Gulf were linked to the broader issue of the Indian Ocean ‘ zone of peace ’ Soviet officials still made an effort to gain support for them from the Indian Ocean Third World states and the non-aligned nations in general . |
| 6 | It is time he responded and paid compensation to those farmers , and allowed them to get on with earning their livelihood , instead of telling them that there is nothing for them from the Ministry of Agriculture . |
| 7 | No , there 's no problem , I 'm just like , saying that , they sound really thick , they 're rubbish at being in a band , and it 's just all so down-hill for them from the beginning , really , they did n't really have a chance , did they . |
| 8 | A path in a graph is a sequence of distinct nodes a b c … d e with arcs between them from a to b , b to c , … d to e . |
| 9 | For those theses which were read , and were subsequently not cited , Kochen 's fourth alternative contains some of the possible reasons for non-citation , but there may be others , and it is not possible to choose between them from the evidence currently available . |
| 10 | The chemistry had been between them from the start , waiting only for a wayward spark to ignite it . |
| 11 | Perhaps it was inevitable that an attraction should have blazed between them from the first . |
| 12 | My first bike was a Hercules , which Grandma got for me from a niece of hers . |
| 13 | My agent had borrowed it for me from a cousin who had gone to New York for six months . |
| 14 | There were a couple of men waiting for me in the car park tonight , said they had a message for me from a ‘ friend ’ that ran along the lines of warning me to keep my nose out of things that did n't concern me . ’ |
| 15 | Is there a message for me from a garage ? ’ she changed her mind to rephrase it pleasantly to the man whom she 'd seen many times before and who , from his broad welcoming smile , she knew had remembered her . |
| 16 | ‘ They were on the look-out for a female DJ so everyone was very up for me from the word go . |
| 17 | Warhol was utterly and completely worthless for me from the word go , something in the history of fashion perhaps but nothing to do with art whatsoever . |
| 18 | He said he had a message for me from the Duke of Strelsau . |
| 19 | ‘ Something about this entire operation never rang true for me from the start . |
| 20 | But Sally was so good , Luckily I 'd remembered to pack the Farley 's Rusks and she had those mixed up with boiled water the guard got for me from the restaurant car . ’ |
| 21 | What I 'd really like , of course , is not to have to bother with lugging kilo bags of sugar and tins of weedkiller back from the town to stuff into electrical-conduit piping which Jamie the dwarf gets for me from the building contractor 's where he works in Porteneil . |
| 22 | So unless er anyone has any direct questions for me from the meeting erm |
| 23 | The researchers meet the guests first , and generally look after them from the time they arrive to the time they leave . |
| 24 | Instead of being cosily tucked up in her bunk near the bar , she surprisingly came walking towards me from the sleeping car forward of Filmer 's , her diamonds lighting small bright fires with every step . |
| 25 | If , for example , two people watch young tearaways behaving in an abusive manner towards them from a safe distance across the street , a conviction would be proper only if they were really likely to fear that violence would be likely to be used against them ( or another ) . |
| 26 | Those of the 26th Regiment who had fled south inflicted heavy casualties on a force hastening towards them from the direction of Telnitz . |
| 27 | Christina saw her husband gradually relax and begin to enjoy himself , tapping his foot to the strains of a calypso floating towards them from the dance-floor on the piazza outside . |
| 28 | Looking down below them from the top , they saw that a small crater with the remains of a dried-up lake in it was emitting sulphurous vapours from several points . |
| 29 | ‘ As I came to a junction , a car pulled out in front of me from a road on the left . |
| 30 | Gradually Elizabeth and I got to know each other ; Elizabeth already knew something of me from The Last Enchantments . |