Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Those forces that make agencies fail to generate change also make them slow to respond to changes that are thrust upon them from the outside . |
| 32 | Finally , at the fifteenth count , Q had 1,704 voted transferred to him from the surplus of McDowell ( PD ) , elected , who had had votes transferred to him from twelve other candidates , F , H , B , Cr , O'S , E , M , R , S , McA , B and D. |
| 33 | An image copy of the Working-Set is taken whenever a new dictionary range is transferred to it from the Main Database . |
| 34 | The surety often takes the position from motives of friendship to the debtor , and generally not as a result of any direct bargaining between him and the creditor , or in consideration of any remuneration passing to him from the creditor . |
| 35 | Certainly the paradoxical view of ugliness as a special kind of beauty appealed to him from the start . |
| 36 | He , too , suffered from an occasional enlightening vision which came to him from the dim past and which he must have suppressed at the time … |
| 37 | These images came to her from the metal engravings of the conquest of Libya which had appeared in the illustrated journals ; she did not remember the different countries of the Italian empire in question , for all of Africa — Libya , Somalia , Eritrea alike — beat out a rhythm of adventure and spoils and heroism . |
| 38 | Five years after the revolution Lenin complained that the Communist Party had good political control only over the top echelons of the vast bureaucracy : ‘ Down below , however , there are hundreds of thousands of old officials who came to us from the Tsar and from bourgeois society and who , sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously , work against us ’ ( quoted in Merkl , 1977 , pp. 166–7 ) . |
| 39 | How differently did it appear to him from the Berelands ' assessment ! |
| 40 | The exact date of the Vendôme charter , in which Count Bouchard gave full details of the military service owed to him from the area of Vendôme , is still controversial ; but it is now accepted as an authentic document of the time of Fulk Nerra or Geoffrey Martel . |
| 41 | Then he muttered to me from the corner of his mouth . |
| 42 | ‘ The semi-detached pair on the right of yours , looking at them from the road , belong to one of the Oxford colleges . |
| 43 | As I did so I became aware of a youngish man with long hair looking at me from the pavemented walk on the Hammersmith side of the river . |
| 44 | She stood looking at me from the end of the bed . |
| 45 | I could tell that my father was looking at me from the other end of the table , swilling his juice round in his glass and staring at my head as I bent over my plate . |
| 46 | I could see I could see Li er Charlie and Pete looking at me from the other side of the room , Charlie smiled and I just did I just went like that , you know ? |
| 47 | Agnes started and went towards her mother , who was looking at her from the kitchen doorway . |
| 48 | She lifted a hand to shade her eyes and Martin Jackson 's face appeared on the backdrop of light , as if he were looking at her from the sun 's centre . |
| 49 | Looking at you from the other side of the desk I might feel you have misdiagnosed yourself . |
| 50 | Looking at it from the club 's point of view I can see how this ban arose in a situation like this . |
| 51 | Now we are looking at it from the point of view of anticipating a loss which will trigger the grief response . |
| 52 | Looking at it from the housewife 's point of view her phrasing of these questions would be : |
| 53 | Looking at it from the point of view revealed in their rhetoric , the pupils were not ignoring their teacher as such . |
| 54 | well I do feel that a car is looked at from a performance point of view , I mean I agree that a lot of bad drivers , but I still think you could help a lot by getting the design of the car right , because sometimes accidents do happen , even though nobody is really at fault and er I feel strongly that were looking at it from the wrong way round . |
| 55 | But looking at it from the other point , that 's the you know the word entitlement comes from you know , I I think I 'm entitled to twenty days ' training , but whether I need twenty days ' training to be |
| 56 | Eight years on Symphony Release 3 has just been launched and Janet Swift examines how it measures up to today 's standards — looking at it from the viewpoint of existing users and those who are contemplating buying new business software . |
| 57 | Maggie looked blankly at the face grinning at her from the queue , and as she pushed a cup of tea across the counter she said , ‘ You were saying ? ’ |
| 58 | ‘ He came at her from the front then ? ’ |
| 59 | An explosive snort came at him from the centre of the room behind him . |
| 60 | But , still , he liked to hear about it from the others . |