Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm also an alternative therapist and I do find that this is one of the major problems , that ninety percent of my patients who come to me suffer from stress and depression , and really what has happened in a lot of cases is that they have been put on valium and drugs , they find the side effects are horrific ! |
| 2 | I refrain from sarcasm . |
| 3 | I mean from air , to fly from aircraft carriers . |
| 4 | I mean from rig to rig things work differently and I mean on on Piper , I would say there were probably things that could have been tightened up but then again I do n't think they were part and parcel of what happened and there on July the sixth . |
| 5 | Why do n't you get Ruth , I mean from Marks . |
| 6 | It was when he was commissioned to write seventeen and a half minutes of light music for the radio that I discovered why Jean-Claude had insisted I bring from London some of my most beautifully tailored suits and expensive dresses . |
| 7 | And there is no point denying that I suffer from Denial , because this means only that I am guilty of Deep Denial . |
| 8 | Erm now I know that most of you have memorized the constitution but because I suffer from Alzheimer 's I had to bring mine with me to remind myself erm what the constitution says about the , the powers of the presidency . |
| 9 | I suffer from asthma but would like to go on our school skiing holiday . |
| 10 | I push from dust ; |
| 11 | I thought well after ten years , I thought , well I want I still want to get on and erm so I heard of this job down at Cambridge Station as Assistant Manageress at the Refreshment Rooms , you see , and er it was n't quite the same because er at Ipswich , you see , although the Catering Manager 's office er my work was office work and typing you know general thing and er because he was away most of the day , most days , because of er er the ten stations er from stretching as I say from Chelmsford , Witham , Marks Tey , Colchester and er I think it was Clacton and er and Manningtree and er I think , I do n't know Manningtree and Ipswich of course and er then er Bury St Edmunds and , and that 's it and I am not sure whether you went to Newmarket or whether to Ca whether to Cambridge now Newmarket but er , you see , so the days went on and we worked every other Sunday and of course I know things were a lot cheaper then but you see the pay was n't , was n't very good . |
| 12 | " What I want from life I can not have . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , taking Shae in his arms and softly kissing her hair , ‘ it would seem I am damned , because you are indeed all I want from life . ’ |
| 14 | A good reputation will be merely a means to winning what I want from others ; I shall care nothing for the respect or contempt of people who can not help or ham me , and find no pleasure in the prospect of millions seeing my face on television or reading my books after I am dead . |
| 15 | Can not help feeling Truffaut 's real talent lies in desserts : the conjuring up of trifles , and that what I want from cinema screen is more like roast beef . |
| 16 | The behaviours I want from Bill |
| 17 | The behaviours I will use to get what I want from Bill |
| 18 | About half what I earn from speed . |
| 19 | Among many blessings , which I count from time to time , is the good fortune of being born in this age of progress ‘ in all directions ’ and the fact that I was born with an innate curiosity . |
| 20 | ‘ I imagine from Cadogan 's attitude that that 's the problem . |
| 21 | It 's possible I could s if I walk from Newcastle catch a bus to Newcastle then walk from Newcastle . |
| 22 | Anyone is free to decide that life is too short for such unriddlings ; others ( I speak from experience ) may develop a taste for them . |
| 23 | The chronologically first and formally most decorous of his critical books , The Spirit of Romance ( originally 1910 ) , can very profitably be used — I speak from experience — as a manual for able undergraduates ; especially if taken along with Confucius to Cummings , the anthology that many decades later Pound compiled along with Marcella Spann . |
| 24 | I speak from experience ! |
| 25 | It is all too easy ( I speak from experience ) when you hit on a sequence of events that seems funny , to get the bit between your teeth and run on and on . |
| 26 | I speak from experience , as my wife and I had to turn back and miss the December 1990 meeting . |
| 27 | I speak from experience , having met many Gartree governors . |
| 28 | You may laugh at this rvolutionary theory BUT I speak from experience . |
| 29 | Er the speed they come out of that bend is unbelievable and I speak from experience Madam Chairman because my daughter lives on that very corner where the bend is and er |
| 30 | My right hon. Friend will not be surprised to learn that I speak from gut reaction rather than a detailed knowledge of the law or the statistics , but I believe that my gut reaction is shared by the vast majority of people in this country . |