Example sentences of "[prep] us from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he did this a Maltese feller started striding slowly but purposefully towards us from the back of the club . |
| 2 | It came rolling towards us from the west . |
| 3 | The island was spread in front of me , outrigger canoes paddling towards us from the silver beaches lined with tall , bending palm trees and feathery casuarinas , while , behind , the green volcanic mountains rose until they seemed to meet the sky . |
| 4 | I date the present coldness of Turkey towards us from the expulsion of the Axis from North Africa . |
| 5 | It is a bloody , those of us from the south , now is as Watford , Hertfordshire , sorry about that , you know , we 're well happy , you stand no chance of oh dear , I 've got in the eye here , you know , we declared independence years ago . |
| 6 | Those of us from the South who left behind tree-strewn roads and gardens after the devastation of the recent October storm , were delighted to be in such beautiful surroundings again and to meet with our Lilleshall friends from other parts of the country . |
| 7 | David says : ‘ After it finished , 18 of us from the course decided to carry on meeting but then everyone went their separate ways . |
| 8 | It was , or it has been , a believe that the N H S was for all of us from the cradle to the grave . |
| 9 | It was , or it has been , a belief that the N H S was for all of us from the cradle to the grave . |
| 10 | So that £780 million is being paid by all of us from the generality of taxation . |
| 11 | I hope the majority of regular readers of this column appreciate a broad spectrum of modern , popular music styles ; after last month 's metal mayhem , we now have Martin Rooms of Leicester to thank for requesting an article on the track One Of Us from the album ‘ The Visitors ’ by one of the purest pop acts to emerge in the last 20 years , ABBA . |
| 12 | So , I 'd got this house and two or three of us from the refuge went up to the old house and packed everything ready to move . |
| 13 | ‘ My singing career sort of got off the ground through the show too because it was when a few of us from the show got together to sing at a benefit concert for a football club in Australia that I first publicly sang ‘ The Locomotion . ’ |
| 14 | The four of us stand watching each other in the dark street while the laughing crowd drifts past us from the pub 's side door . |
| 15 | Young men leap past us from the roof above , splashing into the water to catch up with their canoes , beer bottles held aloft . |
| 16 | The odds were against us from the start at Lincoln — and he knew it . |
| 17 | She came with us from the orphanage back home , two hundred heads in two hundreds beds and two hundred broken hearts under two hundred army surplus blankets and the good nuns to look after us . |
| 18 | It is occasionally possible , just for brief moments , to find the words that will unlock the doors of all those many mansions inside the head and express something — perhaps not much , just something — of the crush of the information that presses in on us from the way a crow flies over and the way a man walks and the look of a street and from what we did one day a dozen years ago . |
| 19 | Loans frequently come straight back to us from the purchase of Western goods . |
| 20 | Let us take the usable answers ( a ) — ( f ) for Question 2 and determine what antecedents and consequences are known to us from the text . |
| 21 | Nigel Dudding , you 're speaking to us from the bar at erm Henley Rugby Club , what was the atmosphere there , watching the game ? |
| 22 | The old cry , familiar to us from the Exodus stories , now goes up again . |
| 23 | Collectors would give anything for the chance to hear him project his art to us from the clarity of a recording studio . |
| 24 | It was clear to us from the beginning that 1991 would not be a very good year to launch anything — from magazines to Scuds . |
| 25 | Five years after the revolution Lenin complained that the Communist Party had good political control only over the top echelons of the vast bureaucracy : ‘ Down below , however , there are hundreds of thousands of old officials who came to us from the Tsar and from bourgeois society and who , sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously , work against us ’ ( quoted in Merkl , 1977 , pp. 166–7 ) . |
| 26 | As soon as we entered the restaurant the proprietor came out to us from the kitchen , rubbing his hands oilier on a tea towel . |
| 27 | Much as it is ‘ obvious ’ to us from the diagram ( though not from a verbal or mathematical description of the same sate-of-affairs ) that B will hit D , that D will then tilt with its left half moving downwards , and that B will end up touching both A and D but not the ground , so it is easily discoverable by the program that this is what will happen . |
| 28 | By day we went to school , and in the evenings our grandmother read to us from the Bible and Dr David Livingstone 's journal . |
| 29 | It comes to us from the age which gave us the Great Charter , and founded the House of Commons . |
| 30 | Evidence of such allowances comes to us from the time of Augustus Caesar . |