Example sentences of "[pers pn] from a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am presently endeavouring to protect you from a race that considers all human life to be a dangerous , parasitic infection . |
| 2 | It might be apparent to you from a description of marketing research techniques that many of these techniques depend on comparisons between different countries . |
| 3 | The message here is that romantic cliches may safeguard you from a heart attack and prevent you making a fool of yourself . |
| 4 | ‘ He saves you from a beating with remarkable ease and skill , yet you remain as blind and dull-witted as an earthworm . |
| 5 | The benefit of getting it there early and a little leap word which takes you from a feature to a benefit |
| 6 | Like steam coming at you from a cooking pot over a camp fire . |
| 7 | On the other hand , you know all there is to be known about me : born Bigley Road , Grays , in Essex , twenty-six years old , wife Alice … who says if she had met you afore me I would n't have had a look-in — and she only saw you from a distance . ’ |
| 8 | Someone who could touch you from a distance — a tiny electric ripple across your shoulders , a pucker of muscle , a goose across your grave . |
| 9 | ‘ I saw you from a distance this morning , did n't I ? |
| 10 | ‘ The first was for saving you from a fate worse than death with Doreen — but what was the second reason ? ’ |
| 11 | If you are earning more money and you hav n't got enough points , they could move you from a specialist department to a police station . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't expect he liked it , darling , but you are on holiday , and though it was very naughty of that boy to risk ringing you from a ward , you can scarcely be held responsible . ’ |
| 13 | I was only trying to help spring you from a trap if you felt you were in one . ’ |
| 14 | For that reason , it is worth thinking about what is interesting about you from a journalist 's point of view before trying to woo him or her with your beautiful noise . |
| 15 | What features might repel you from a city and attract you to the countryside ? |
| 16 | Another , contrasting function served by inverted commas ( besides direct quotation , which is discussed below , Chapter 5 , pp. 105 – 7 ) is that of distancing you from an expression . |
| 17 | ‘ How far are we from a descent to the street ? ’ he asked Jotan . |
| 18 | ‘ He called to me from a winter place . |
| 19 | We went to school together , I saved him from a beating and he rescued me from a hanging , twice ; once in Ipswich and then again at Montfaucon , that great forest of gibbets which stands near the Porte St Denis in Paris . |
| 20 | My agent had borrowed it for me from a cousin who had gone to New York for six months . |
| 21 | A regular checkup once or twice a year with a GP who had the time , the energy , and the resources to advise on preventative medicine as an integral part of the National Health Service , may have protected me from a heart attack . |
| 22 | ‘ He saved me from a fate worse than death , and it was all over so quick I never did get the chance to thank him properly . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Essentially they did n't know me from a hole in the ground when I first approached them and were willing to give me the benefit of the doubt . |
| 24 | ‘ As I came to a junction , a car pulled out in front of me from a road on the left . |
| 25 | My first bike was a Hercules , which Grandma got for me from a niece of hers . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Second , I remember the frisson when my Welsh ( and therefore maternal ) grandfather extracted me from a class in order to take me home early for tea . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , preserve me from a woman 's corn . |
| 29 | I recoiled when she thrust it at me from a pocket . |
| 30 | This is what my friends tell me from a side view . |