Example sentences of "[pron] from [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I knew why , they had the queer sensation that they were being addressed by someone from a bygone age . |
| 3 | ( Someone from a different culture may interpret it quite differently ) . |
| 4 | Someone from a different culture , or world , visiting our society could be excused for thinking that crime was a basic , ever-present feature of our everyday lives . |
| 5 | It involves an act of imagination to see one 's society and culture through the eyes , as it were , of someone from a different culture , to whom the normal ways of living and acting in Western societies appear odd and to demand explanation . |
| 6 | It is perhaps less easy to see how someone from a privileged background can be led to seek emptiness as a physical state , when it is obviously such an unpleasant , even painful , one . |
| 7 | It might help to talk about how you feel with someone you trust and who knows how the system works , for example , someone from a self-help group or an individual health visitor or advisor . |
| 8 | He added thoughtfully , ‘ I was going to call in someone from the other practice , but I do n't see why … ’ |
| 9 | In practice it means that the keynote lecture will be given by someone from the New World . |
| 10 | Erm , and I also understand that this is the first time you 've actually had someone from the private sector , er , whose been invited to er , address your A G M so , I 'd like to thank you for the privilege , and for also for the opportunity to speak on a subject which I personally er , find of of great interest . |
| 11 | Someone from the Mutual Life Provident might drop in … ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , ’ Gioella said dismissively , ‘ just someone from the far past . |
| 13 | If you 're gay you 're reviled , but Cube has always revealed the sick shit from the grubby corners of his mind , and you ca n't expect someone from the wasted landscape of black urban America to think like a white liberal . |
| 14 | I tipped the wink to a pal of mine who 's big in local government , and he managed to fix it for someone from the public health authority to write a letter full of threats and demands and legal gobbledegook . |
| 15 | Worse , he 's spent the last hour with someone from the Daily Express . |
| 16 | They met again in February to hear an address given by someone from the Scottish Temperance League , and in Ballygrant in March when the Chairman gave an address in the Gaelic ; seven more joined . |
| 17 | They met again in February to hear an address given by someone from the Scottish Temperance League , and in Ballygrant in March when the Chairman gave an address in the Gaelic ; seven more joined . |
| 18 | And not until I have someone from the American embassy present . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , ’ she replies eagerly , ‘ someone from the British Committee is supposed to be meeting me . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ My first reaction was to get someone from the British Transport Police , but the door of their office was locked . |
| 21 | Here they were , a tiny outpost in the Diaspora , and someone from the very heart of Jewry had come to address them , someone so important that his coming all that way proved they were important , too . |
| 22 | I move away as I would prefer to talk with someone from the same planet . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , there was a strong tendency in some constituencies for voters to " plump " for one candidate and waste their second vote , rather than give it to someone from the opposing party . |
| 24 | It is important that someone from the senior management team should exercise day-to-day oversight and responsibility for Compact activities . |
| 25 | They sang together , played by ear on the old upright that someone from the big house had thrown out and they had retrieved . |
| 26 | When a putative diagnosis of yaws is made in someone from an endemic area , on the strength of positive treponemal blood tests , it is customary to give a course of penicillin which would be adequate to treat latent syphilis should this have been the cause of the positive STS . |
| 27 | We walked straight to the head of the queue and helped ourselves from a huge cauldron which was steaming on top of an oven . |
| 28 | Nor do I believe that it can be said that in no way can we disentangle ourselves from the religious myth which we have inherited . |
| 29 | Moore contends that if , having freed ourselves from the naturalistic fallacy , we ask what are the chief good things known to us , we will conclude that they are personal affection and the enjoyment of beautiful objects . |
| 30 | So when we have real emotions about someone , we lift ourselves from the shallow level of selfishness into the real and eternal . |