Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wants somebody from each |
| 2 | ‘ Only when she needs something from you , perhaps ? ’ |
| 3 | Then comes ‘ Success Has Made A Failure Of Our Home ’ and knocks you over ; she wrenches it from the grasp of Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette and makes it absolutely her own , Phil Ramone 's arrangement swelling dramatically to Sinead 's own end-piece , and with the last emphatic plea of ‘ Am I not your girl ? ’ both you and she fall down , emotionally exhausted . |
| 4 | ‘ She is a dragon , ’ said Dinah , ‘ but she keeps me from annoyance , and Papa had the room designed so that no one could get straight in . ’ |
| 5 | I can only suppose she gets them from her father . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Well , y'know , Else always was one for washing , she gets it from me , but Sidney , 'e do n't go in for baths much , well men do n't , do they ? |
| 7 | I do n't know where she gets it from . |
| 8 | I mean it , perhaps that 's where she gets it from . |
| 9 | She remembers you from |
| 10 | It would be possible , temporarily , to laugh at the wife being landed in trouble by the monk after her meretricious bargain with him , but she extricates herself from this problem in true fabliau manner . |
| 11 | So I think it 's the cats she catches anything from . |
| 12 | The ozone layer is located at an average height of 12 kilometres above the earth 's surface an it screens us from 99% of the harmful ultra-violet radiation coming from the sun . |
| 13 | Moreover it is less than clear from the Bill what advantages are supposed to accrue to a school if it separates itself from a Local Authority , unless doing so is thought in general to be advantageous ( where , for instance , a Local Authority is unduly ‘ political ’ ) . |
| 14 | For a moment before it separates itself from its surroundings I catch a glimpse of its round eyes , beautiful but stupid , taking in the sight of a forty-three-year-old writer wearing shorts and a faded polo shirt , his face somewhat craggier than he sees it in his mind 's eye , his waist a little more solid and his eyes bright with the thoughts he is generating . |
| 15 | By a somewhat artificial rule , a servant who receives a thing from his master for the master 's use is deemed not to be in possession of it , though the contrary is true where he receives it from a stranger for the master 's use . |
| 16 | ‘ Ideally it needs someone from Alton . |
| 17 | Women bear children in rapid succession when young and when they can no longer face the prospect of another child , they choose sterilization because it exempts them from having to take conscious and continuing responsibility for their own fertility in a culture which constantly denies women this right . |
| 18 | The museum 's collection is vast , for it covers everything from windmills to space exploration . |
| 19 | It covers everything from ‘ abjuration of the realm ’ to the ‘ Young England Movement ’ , and has a lengthy chronology . |
| 20 | So it 's really a case of just ensuring that the T G I manual does cover all a , it , it needs to state where it takes over from the procedure and then it needs to ensure that it covers everything from there on about T G I , because erm , just from thinking through some of the other procedures , I mean , it does n't , T G I does n't come into the costing , or at least it 's got it 's own costings . |
| 21 | It 's hard to fault the production as it has everything from passion to drama to sadness and comedy . |
| 22 | But because he accepts something from the philosophers ' view , a view which leads to scepticism , he himself runs the risk of it . |
| 23 | I ask Mr Jackson if he wants anything from the shop — you know , like fags or a newspaper or summat , but he says he do n't . |
| 24 | And Beuno said nothing , but he looked at him as mildly as he looks at the trout that he catches in the stream , and the doctor said , ‘ Until tomorrow ’ , and he left , and Beuno watched him go as mildly as he watches the sheep when he frees them from where they are caught in the hedge . |
| 25 | It is , of course , clear that the Report does not speak on behalf of working-class culture , but it should also be noted that it distances itself from the culture of the middle class ( cf. 236/256–7 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ Once they jam in the needles , it distances you from thinking of smoking . ’ |
| 27 | The reader may interpret the " flock " metaphorically , but by doing so he distances himself from the character . |
| 28 | He blames everyone from John Major down . |
| 29 | It frees him from the awkward contortions of hand and wrist that make violin lessons and practice all too necessary . |
| 30 | It is sometimes suggested that the absence of note-taking can be a help to the informant , in that it frees him from the inhibiting effects of a recorder and a notebook . |