Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They scrape me down from head to foot — my torn clothes , my hands , my broken knees , the nose on my face . |
| 2 | On one of them , where I farmed for 45 years , while my employees who belonged there spoke Gaelic , I also from time to time employed Scots speakers from Alyth , splendid fellows , in whose speech I could recognise classical Scots words which occur in the poetry of the Scottish Chaucerians . |
| 3 | There is undoubtedly some truth in this ; the nobility frequently sent proxies to parliament in these years ; they were too preoccupied with war to have any reason for opposing the king in parliament , and their independent campaigns on the continent took some of them away from England for several years at a time . |
| 4 | Moreover , by curbing the worst excesses of capitalism , concessions cut into the grievances of the working class so turning them away from action for fundamental transformation . |
| 5 | My voyage to Laputa , Balnibarbi , Glubbdubdrib and Luggnagg had taken me away from home for five and a half years . |
| 6 | ‘ My new life as a sailor will keep me away from England for many years , ’ he said . |
| 7 | occasionally one feels , as a teacher , rather like a soccer referee who , having blown his whistle for the kick-off , finds the players disconcertingly reluctant to make a move and is reduced to dribbling the ball himself furiously from end to end , scoring brilliant goals in undefended nets , while the motionless players look curiously on . |
| 8 | THE FFESTINIOG Railway wants to see the scenic Welsh Highland Railway ( WHR ) reopened in its entirely from Porthmadog across Snowdonia to Dinas and with an entirely new section running from there right up to the walls of Caernarfon Castle . |
| 9 | Gallardo had pulled himself up from poverty by sheer force of personality , tapping the electricity lines that ran above the shanty town and reading Marx by the light . |
| 10 | The denial of tenderness cuts them off from communication with wives and children . |
| 11 | Mrs Denham wore heavily-rimmed glasses , and she took them off from time to time , restlessly , as she talked : the crows ' feet round her eyes were deeply scored , and her eyes without their glasses had a distant , worried look , as though committed to far other fields of concentration . |
| 12 | The second mechanism is to have special protein molecules in the membrane , able to take hold of molecules of X and pass them directionally from outside to inside . |
| 13 | My search took me further from base with each load . |
| 14 | The book is divided into seven chapters/days , which guide you on from novice to competent windsurfer , with the help of written explanations and step by step photos and diagrams . |
| 15 | British Rail will whisk you down from London in less than an hour . |
| 16 | You think that 's especially true and like say Aberdeen if you go in a shop there and and , at least it used to be the case , and asked for something you be thought you were speaking fine but they would just say , Oh my you down from Orkney for a holiday ? |
| 17 | It reproduces itself identically from generation to generation ; the unconscious imitation of parents by their children is enough to ensure the perpetuation of anthropological systems . |
| 18 | They 'd probably keep you away from life in America . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll pick you up from Kalkara at three . |
| 20 | And what better community could you get than in Spring Street , he would ask , for had n't it a shop that supplied food , and two others that fitted you out from top to bottom ? |
| 21 | For example , they transport schoolchildren to events in unmarked buses , or pick them up from locations outside West Belfast . |
| 22 | Please guide my spirit and raise me up from depths of misery , so that my soul may be carried through your wisdom and may struggle fearlessly upwards in fiery flight . |
| 23 | got something back from Intercity on the P S work where they 're wa wishing us to predict to certain date what we 're gon na be spending over the next six months . |
| 24 | Vera next door brought them back from Spain for me . |
| 25 | They drag them back from Italy at various times . |
| 26 | Do you take them out from time to time and gloat ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ They let me out from time to time , ’ he stated seriously . |
| 28 | She drew herself away from Matthew in sudden shyness . |
| 29 | Her relationship with her father , a pushy parent intent on moulding his daughter into a prodigious pianist , is perceptively drawn , as is her self-destructive decision to cut herself off from music after her marriage , where the only outlets for her frustration are manic housework and an unsatisfying affair . |
| 30 | She cut herself off from comfort by clenching her fists , screaming and occasionally kicking when people approached . |