Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said it would change my hair from red to black ! |
| 2 | ‘ I am in lodgings in Chapel Street , you must know that all my possessions from Summer Lodge had to be sold ? ’ |
| 3 | And that was the purpose of my digression from anthropology to the sociology of monetary exchange . |
| 4 | ‘ I was in love with you up to my neck from day one and you were seeing Radcliffe night after night , rejecting me day after day . ’ |
| 5 | I had tears in my eyes from laughter . |
| 6 | I walked partway along the trail , closing my eyes from time to time , imagining myself blind , unable to see . |
| 7 | One day , waiting in the car in Albion Street to pick up my brother-in-law from work ( he looks like Norman Lamont , incidently , but she loves him dearly ) , she suddenly saw me , her brother who 's supposed to be living in exile down south , walking along the road in the company of a glamorous lady . |
| 8 | ‘ They told me that I should have put my whip down and tried to stop my horse from hanging . ’ |
| 9 | This use of uniform as a symbol of separation had not changed in 1977 on my return from university . |
| 10 | One story of how a local university academic had come into the police station to report his car missing , because he had forgotten where he had parked it , was repeated with relish ; while another which I told on my return from university satisfied these deeply held views of the ‘ intellectual 's ’ practical ineptitude : |
| 11 | Just before I went on my first furlough after five years ' service , the Bishop of Rangoon , Norman Tubbs , called me and told me that on my return from furlough he wanted me to take over the training of the Burmese clergy . |
| 12 | The pegs were plentiful , but F not needed for a pull , and as I swept my feet from left to right across the wall on little orange nubbins and small edges below good fingerlocks , in a thin , horizontal crack , I wished it could go on and on . |
| 13 | So she went to her other detention and there was another note saying , had to pick up my child from school . |
| 14 | If my withdrawal from separatism had in part to do with feeling unhappy with a surfeit of hatred , which is mentally and spiritually very depleting , it had also to do with how you go about communicating feelings of being cleansed and enlightened . |
| 15 | This book is about Britain 's Defence policy in her post-imperial era , and is the sequel to my Withdrawal from Empire , published in 1986 , in which I looked through military eyes at the creation , development and eventual transformation of the Empire into the loosely-knit British Commonwealth . |
| 16 | My expectations from analogy with the past , like a dog 's , are sometimes realized , sometimes disappointed ; if the mechanism were not often effective it would not as it evolved have been spared by natural selection ; but I , as a rational being , want to be able to judge when it is reliable . |
| 17 | I had an arrow right through my body from back to front somewhere in the region of my lower ribs . |
| 18 | I cried out with the pain which seemed to turn my body from head to toe into one raw , open wound . |
| 19 | ‘ Lonely This Christmas ’ by Mud was playing of the radio and I was swinging my body from side to side in time to the music in order to pass the time . |
| 20 | And if , later that day , 20 newsmen and photographers had turned up at our family bonfire party and witnessed my hysterical attempt to restrain my husband from re-lighting that dud super-rocket ( well , I was n't sure his life insurance was paid up ) , speculation as to the real state of our marriage could doubtless have made dramatic headlines . |
| 21 | ‘ My move from accountancy to law will be both a challenge and a change of emphasis ’ said Mr Toghill , ‘ I am aware of the present employment difficulties in the profession . |
| 22 | That marketh out my day from night , |
| 23 | I have learned to please , to gauge and sniff the air before I move off , to swing my head from side to side as I put one foot carefully in front of the other , ears and hair raised to twang on the slightest change in the atmosphere . |
| 24 | With a strong crosswind I sighted over my mentor 's left shoulder during the approach , only moving my head from side to side in the final stages to get a symmetrical perspective for the flare . |
| 25 | ‘ Uh , uh , ’ I wagged my head from side to side . |
| 26 | I bobbled my head from side to side . |
| 27 | But for me it 's a bit like a tennis match — I get tired of turning my head from side to side listening to you . ’ |
| 28 | Then I realized most of the visitors and all the residents were watching me and I turned my head from side to side to see why I was getting that uncomfortable my-flies-must-be-open feeling . |
| 29 | get my things from Encyclopedia Brittanica did I ? |
| 30 | ‘ Pegi ( his wife ) is the woman of my life , she 's the main influence on my life from womanhood . |