Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This mixture of sizes did nothing to detract from the overall beauty of the place ; rather they gave interest , drawing the eye to different shapes and heights . |
| 2 | The fact that this stack is merely structured from stone , the result of a well understood physical sequence , does nothing to detract from the Old Man 's personal aura . |
| 3 | Any issues affecting the relations of the Serbs with the imperial authorities or with their Muslim landlords and neighbours had to be dealt with by the Muslim authorities , most of whom operated from the cosmopolitan cities . |
| 4 | ‘ I have ended up with my children in a Women 's Hostel , still black and blue after the battering I got from the drunken unfaithful bully I was stupid enough to marry . |
| 5 | What MPG range can I expect from the standard Land Rover V8 ? |
| 6 | I came from the very opposite . |
| 7 | FBI spokesman Bob Ricks said : ‘ I believed from the very beginning they had a certain time agenda . |
| 8 | After all as I tramped around the hillside barns in the frosty air I was working up a better appetite for my turkey than all the millions lying in bed or slumped by the fire ; and this was aided by the innumerable aperitifs I received from the hospitable farmers . |
| 9 | Clearly I can not get along entirely on factual information , any more than I infer from the mere facts how to act here and now . |
| 10 | Tiring of the crowd , I climbed from the reeking water . |
| 11 | I contracted from the local community unit a nursing team that would be led by general practitioners and would form a true practice based primary health care team . |
| 12 | Now the , the other thing I recall from the previous meeting , Rod seems to have minutes I think , well he was looking at them before . |
| 13 | I jump for joy … but until I hear from the Foreign Office or from Martin , I wo n't believe it . |
| 14 | It 's a concept I adapted from the American presidential campaigns . |
| 15 | While I could not afford to buy new books , I get what I like from the local library . |
| 16 | I was beginning to feel sleepy , and very cold ; the temperature seemed to have gone down , and I was shivering even while I sweated from the furnace-like emanations of the curry . |
| 17 | I opened two bottles that I retrieved from the sticky mess on the cabin floor . |
| 18 | I heard from the white-glowing crucible of cutting-edge technological advancement that our humble kitchen had become . |
| 19 | ‘ I heard from the equine laboratory in Newmarket . |
| 20 | Casements on eternity , these great patient masterpieces ought to calm the mind and nourish the spirit , but seldom do , and its rare that I emerge from the National Gallery feeling I have really taken advantage of what 's on offer . |
| 21 | I understand from the hon. Gentleman that the station provided for in the Bill is intended to serve trains coming initially along a different route — not from Stratford — to the Euroterminal . |
| 22 | But I believe from the written evidence that there is equally no dispute that the boundary which has existed for ten years , the tight boundary , is also capable of being a suitable greenbelt boundary if indeed there is to be an inset . |
| 23 | Now I guess from the affluent audience we 've got here today that you pay more than that because you 're living in higher rated value properties I guess . |
| 24 | I note from the supplied listings that you 're loading a mouse driver twice — once in CONFIG.SYS and again in AUTOEXEC.BAT . |
| 25 | I gather from the little bits of information which came my way that the match was a disaster . |
| 26 | ‘ I knew from the very start that you sent that poison pen letter , Eleanor . |
| 27 | I knew from the thick fragrance that filled the air that it was Mrs. Constantine . |
| 28 | I think I copied from the old lot of |
| 29 | ‘ Hello , I 'm trying to clarify a rather confused report we 've picked up — I think from the local police — about an incident at the hospital last night , or it could have been early this morning . |
| 30 | One was a very nice garment made out of a kind of silk which Mother and I bought from the secondhand clothes lady who ran a stall in Barnard Castle . |