Example sentences of "[pron] from [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No movement , no luck With a silent curse he extricated himself from the first trap and moved on to the next |
| 2 | This was an adaptation , evolved by the courts , of the writ of account which from the thirteenth century had been available against bailiffs , factors and receivers . |
| 3 | ‘ Did n't you guess , my beautiful idiot , that I 've been crazy about you from the first time I saw you standing outside your hotel bedroom in France ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I think I 've loved you from the first moment I saw you , ’ she said , and drew in her breath sharply as he crushed her against him . |
| 5 | So the paper you 've got in front of you from the last meeting then . |
| 6 | This does n't just mean doing a sedentary job but refers rather to the type of person ( who could well be a housewife , doing a basically non-sedentary type of job ) who calls the children to bring something from the next room rather than getting up herself , or who goes to great lengths to avoid journeys up and down stairs , or who will drive round for five minutes to find a parking spot near the exit of the car park rather than walk for two minutes … |
| 7 | It is worth noting that the seal from Knossos was capped in gold at either end like the one from a Third Dynasty level at Ur . |
| 8 | That night I belted out one of my favourite speeches , the one from the second part of Henry IV in which the new king , Henry V , rejects the friendship of Falstaff . |
| 9 | Scotland 's Under-21 side will contain six First Division players and one from the Second Division in an experimental gathering designed to look for players eligible to take part in the summer 's world invitation event in Toulon . |
| 10 | During routine upper gastrointestinal endoscopy one biopsy was taken for hostological examination from the antral mucosa 2 cm from the pylorus and one from the first part of the duodenum on the opposite wall to the area of ulceration . |
| 11 | In fact they were partial letters of rubescent neon repeated over and over again that blinked past too quickly to separate each one from the next fragment . |
| 12 | The fly , which has settled on my forehead and reads to me from the Sixth Book of the Aeneid , is the same fly which buzzes round the head of Virgil in Mantua . |
| 13 | You still owe me from the last time . |
| 14 | We rattled them from the first minute and did n't give them any breathing space . |
| 15 | On June 17 the Colorado leadership issued a statement deploring and rejecting the Assembly 's decision to debar him from a second term . |
| 16 | However jewel-like the good will may be in its own right , there is a morally significant difference between rescuing someone from a burning building and dropping him from a twelfth storey window while trying to rescue him . |
| 17 | No other man had so eloquently and constantly spoken of the way I had haunted him from the first moment he cast eyes on me . |
| 18 | He had adopted his slighting manner , he knew , to protect himself from the attraction which she had possessed for him from the first moment that he had seen her . |
| 19 | Never trusted him from the first moment . |
| 20 | Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met . |
| 21 | With Keith , I fell head over heels in love with him from the first time we met , and I 'd only been going out with him two weeks and he asked me to get engaged . |
| 22 | Come and clean my windows and I owed him from the last time . |
| 23 | Is Olsen then going to drop him from the next side if he s not playing in Leeds first team ? |
| 24 | It has not been possible to exempt her from a third politics module , 7605 , but rather than delay her Stage II entry it has been agreed that she may ‘ trail ’ it in that stage , i.e. she will include it along with her advanced modules as 1 of the 2 basic modules which may also be counted . |
| 25 | I would admire any conductor just for getting through it from the first note to the last without too many disasters P there 's a pitfall a minute . |
| 26 | I will call it the principle of comprehensive ( political ) neutrality to distinguish it from the second principle which will be called the principle of narrow ( political ) neutrality . |
| 27 | These witches are the ‘ middle class ’ of respectability , always concerned to distance themselves from the first group and ever keen to present the acceptable face of natural religion . |
| 28 | It takes us from the 19th century through to the 1930s and 1940s and the pioneering work of a number of embroiderers , in particular Constance Howard , who in 1951 was invited to make a large-scale work for the Festival of Britain . |
| 29 | Because , about a week before John drew our attention to that matter of concern , I had prayerfully chosen a theme for tonight , based on the set gospel — the passage that has just been read to us from the first chapter of John . |
| 30 | Most of my new friends were paras , and we used to sit around listening to our Sergeant-Major , who had been seconded to us from the 3rd Battalion after an exemplary performance in the Falklands . |