Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am , I was born in Essex , in in hospital and my family all come from Essex , and I was brought up in Upminster and I was very fortunate in that I was born into a christian home and I had christian parents and christian grandparents and christian aunts and uncles and I went to church from the time I was about two or three weeks old . |
| 2 | I learned to garden from my mother 's head gardener , Mr Buffett , who was one of the most organised people I have ever known . |
| 3 | On his return journey , accompanied by Cecil Pinsent , he caught a chill which turned to pneumonia from which he died in New York 14 August 1929 . |
| 4 | Some of these have rectangular layouts of streets which seem to date from late Saxon times , as at Winchester and Guildford . |
| 5 | Indeed , an important element in the BUF was provided by those who came to fascism from outside the traditional party spectrum and who had little or no previous political experience . |
| 6 | Allen was to play an important role in the story of the BUF , in general it was those who came to fascism from outside politics who were to prove the most important elements in the organization . |
| 7 | My second child , for instance , was a placid baby who fed to routine from his earliest day and rarely cried . |
| 8 | Many directors who come to opera from the theatre are incapable of understanding this quite special form of human expression . |
| 9 | The feelings of the young hon. Member for Gedling ( Mr. Mitchell ) about the way in which local government has broken up were expressed subjectively and I suspect that he will not agree with me when I say that they seemed to date from about 1979 — and we know what happened in 1979 when the hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) was first elected . |
| 10 | They seem to date from the early sixth century , and while some are pure Greek others are almost purely oriental : a late phase of ‘ orientalising ’ . |
| 11 | Hesitantly , they began to trip from side to side , facing each other , he always encouraging her , like two lunatic children in a dance . |
| 12 | Soviet scientists reported unprecedented levels of acid rain falling in south-east Russia in April 1991 which they attributed to pollution from the burning Kuwaiti oil wells . |
| 13 | Quinn 's predatory skills outshone the player who cost 10 times more , Dean Saunders , who enjoyed the same sort of start when he moved to Villa from Liverpool . |
| 14 | It leads to refreshment from springs that never run dry . |
| 15 | Harte 's hair and clothing were scorched but he managed to stagger from his home leaving his relatives trapped inside . |
| 16 | At high stringency it hybridizes to DNA from male but not female S. macroura , suggesting it represents a transcript from a Y-located gene . |
| 17 | Later he retracted these comments which he attributed to pressure from the press . |