Example sentences of "[pers pn] from a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's saved you from a long prison-term . |
| 2 | ‘ Are you from a military family ? ’ the Doctor asked , more to break the embarrassing silence than out of genuine interest . |
| 3 | Not only will you be left standing in the cold , 596 gallons of specially prepared lumpy semolina garnished liberally with dead dogs and donkey droppings will cascade down on you from a secret overhead trapdoor . |
| 4 | Alternatively , use a rug or foam mat to protect you from a hard floor . |
| 5 | They will protect you from a fatal accident when using electric gardening equipment . |
| 6 | My mother was reading to me from A Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia , and I can remember exactly where she had got to in the book when , thinking I looked feverish , she took my temperature and put me to bed . |
| 7 | He knows full well that we are not related , though he once waved to me from a passing train . |
| 8 | Then a communication reached me from a newly-formed organization called the British Council , which rio one , including some of its officials , seemed to know much about . |
| 9 | ‘ WAS IT ONE OF THEM IN-DEPTH things you have to really think about ? ’ asked the cabbie who drove me from A Hard Heart . |
| 10 | ‘ She telephoned me from a public call-box somewhere . |
| 11 | You can hear them from a long way now what you do is you sit them down and let them take up their own particular position , you can , if they 've got their medication their Ventilin or whatever , you can put it beside them , they will know if they need to take it or not , get them with the fresh air and let them take up their own position which is usually leaning forward so that it expands their lungs , talk to them about something different because sometimes well they 've got to think of what to answer you , it 's relaxing those tubes , now if they 're taking their medication and it does n't work within about five minutes get them to hospital , because the only people that really die with asthma are those that have taken medication and keep saying I 'll give it a few more minutes , give it a few more minutes and if they 're getting worse and worse they 're leaving it too long . |
| 12 | A commitment to East European art seems to be prominent ; so too African and broadly Third-World developments , with an implied attempt to transcend the barriers which isolate them from a self-defining ‘ First World ’ ; historical figures whose critical recuperation is overdue ; promising younger artists , whom the remainder of the British art world traditionally shun . |
| 13 | Miss Julie Stott , 27 , from Eccles , Manchester , was walking back to her hotel with a friend , Mr Peter Ellis , 27 , when a man attacked them from a passing car . |
| 14 | Tea and coffee should be strictly limited , and the patient should drink them from a small cup , and should not be given several cups in succession . |
| 15 | Perhaps someone could lure some , sportsmen , in tweeds into its tenebrous depths , where we could leap down on them from a great height to tweak their noses and fill their plus fours with cornflakes . |
| 16 | Furthermore , the margin scheme applies only to goods sold by taxable dealers who have acquired them from a private individual or a very small dealer or a body exempt from VAT . |
| 17 | At home many people have a personal medication routine such as taking medications orally ; inhaling them from a nasal spray ; applying them to the skin ; putting medicated drops or ointment into the eye ; injecting them from a syringe ; inserting them in the form of a suppository into the rectum or in the form of a pessary into the vagina . |
| 18 | She patted down the earth in each pot , watered them from a slimy tin , arranged them in a row on the ledge , and darted back along the path to the house . |
| 19 | They should all have them from a similar area because most of the time they say oh well they live so far away |
| 20 | They value their architects more for their business demeanours than for their designs , and choose them from a limited number of established companies , more valued for reliability than originality . |
| 21 | All , like these picture perfect Labradors , going to new owners who believe their dream puppy came to them from a caring environment . |
| 22 | these other items were n't in the normal refuse collection and therefore they were going to sort of reduce them from a weekly collection to a |
| 23 | Things can appear to have a different significance if you view them from a different vantage-point . |
| 24 | Even when the latter does raise religious matters , he seems to deal with them from a different perspective than that of the ascetic theology of Faustus or the spiritual philosophy of another great writer and friend , Claudianus Mamertus . |
| 25 | These are usually studied by separating them from a crushed rock with heavy liquids , notably tetrabromoethane , which is extremely toxic . |
| 26 | 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 ! |
| 27 | As the way is now open , with the agreement of the House , for us to join a single currency in just over five years , will my right hon. Friend spell out clearly to the House and to the people of this country what benefits will or may derive to them from a single currency ? |
| 28 | respecting the provisions of the Legislature on this point and the manner in which these provisions have been eluded , as well as to point out the pecuniary advantages [ the system of bounties which the abolitionists had themselves promoted ] which would accrue to them from a vigorous enforcement of the Abolition Laws . |
| 29 | It may be possible to find such books in your office , or to arrange to borrow them from a public library . |
| 30 | They drop them from a light plane into snowdrifts . ’ |