Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a wonderful fact that I should be affected , and thus deeply and powerfully , more than by aught else in all my experience — that this fruit should be borne in me sprung from a seed finer than the spores of fungi , floated from other atmospheres ! finer than the dust caught in the sails of vessels a thousand miles from land ! |
| 2 | I had no intention of trying to explain the whereabouts of Sunil 's goods to Sunil or his henchmen until I 'd made contact with Zaria , and if she did n't come across soon there was a good chance she 'd find me hanging from a Christmas tree by the neck . |
| 3 | The heading ‘ Letterman productions , Hollywood , London , paris ’ , with a movie camera logo , seems to me to come from a comic book , but it obviously reminds Mr Shah of his brief association with Ava Gardner , Clark Gable and John Ford . |
| 4 | I made from a proms concert ‘ sometime in the '70s ’ — featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra/Bernard Haitink ( just the usual orchestral Suite ) . |
| 5 | So I mean from a couple of bits of information we could tell they had sheep , they probably ate them , teeth marks on it , things like that . |
| 6 | How however , I mean from a a broader point of view I think I would have some general reservations as have been confessed previously by Mr Earle and and Mr Jewitt . |
| 7 | Here is a message I got from a tame Man U supporter on the subject we are all discussing . |
| 8 | ‘ Be Modern — Play Old Time ’ advised Sydney Thompson to fellow bandleaders whilst Jack Parnell spelt out , rather controversially , ‘ What I Expect From A Rhythm Section ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ Ah , well , they made things better of course in the Thirties and these I found from a plaster house that closed down , they were used for Chanel 's stand at the Universelle Expo in 1937 , jolie , no ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ There , trapped for ninety minutes in the sauna , I changed from a devout Catholic housewife into a raving nymphomaniac . ’ |
| 11 | First , a trick I learnt from a newspaper article about a discovery in psychology . |
| 12 | A very long time later I woke from a deep sleep . |
| 13 | I do n't come from an evangelical background , I came from a raw environment straight into the contentions of the Big Man and you could n't have been too extreme . |
| 14 | ‘ I came from a poor family in the countryside and communism gave me a chance for a better life . |
| 15 | I came from a pretty poorish background and now it 's nice to be able to give my parents money , and let them do things like go on holiday . |
| 16 | He laughed back when I told him that I came from a poor barrio in Britain and that we were no longer referred to as people either . |
| 17 | I came from a rough area so that 's the way it worked . |
| 18 | I came from a B-Cat prison where I had my own basin and toilet . |
| 19 | I mean I think it 's the class thing as well really , because I can remember when I was erm leaving school erm and I went to the careers erm teacher for my interview and I said I 'd like to be a journalist and she looked at me and I came from a very poor working class background in Tottenham , and she said ‘ I 'm sure you could be a secretary or a shorthand typist if you really tried ’ . |
| 20 | She was another young conservative , I guessed from a rather sheltered background . |
| 21 | All I ate that day was a piece of bread , which I begged from a farmer eating his supper . |
| 22 | Here I want to vary the times so that I hear from a true cross-section of our listeners , and those who listen to the graveyard shift , for instance , probably never hear the breakfast show . |
| 23 | I know from a statement made by the Secretary of State in response to the Independent article , a copy of which I have here . |
| 24 | In the USA , I discovered from a report by Dermot Pungavie in the Daily Mail , for those mourners who wish to view but are short of time , one funeral director in Chicago has come up with the novel idea of drive-in viewing . |
| 25 | One punter refers to a typically fateful day : 1 August 1988 - " … the day I returned from a holiday abroad , Harvard telephoned me out of the blue ( 8th April 1986 ) , and a chap who sounded like an enthusiastic young cockney told me how wonderful Towerbell was and that it was going places with top stars in tow ! " |
| 26 | Last night I returned from a stint on the 1990 ITV Telethon , with steam issuing from my every pore . |
| 27 | A few days later I returned from a lengthy scout round the area to find a woman in those dark clothes in the kitchen putting cups on the table . |
| 28 | I heard from a neighbour |
| 29 | I heard from a cop |
| 30 | ‘ I heard from a friend this morning — she 'd getting hitched to some chap in Northamptonshire who 's due to inherit his uncle 's title . ’ |