Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] us from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Billy Bond writes to us from Forest Row , East Sussex to say that most knitting machine shops are run by friendly and helpful people but Knitmates is outstanding . |
| 2 | ‘ Thank goodness you 're back ’ said one of the clerks who had been seconded to us from County Hall . |
| 3 | There are three small boys who call on us from time to time , ‘ just visiting ’ , as they put it . |
| 4 | Those two sentences are straight quotations from a leaflet sent to us from Warp Factor Eight , a firm in Ware . |
| 5 | ‘ People come to us from department stores because they ca n't find this kind of furniture there , ’ said manager Steve Raper . |
| 6 | Our outdoor training sessions , however , could still be spoiled by hostile dogs , which would sometimes lunge at us from garden walls or charge round corners . |
| 7 | Sam McAughtry , who first took his seat on this stage back in 1985 , will delight us with his humorous and heartwarming tales of life in the Tiger 's Bay district of North Belfast , while the best-selling author of ‘ To School Through the Fields ’ Alice Taylor , comes to us from County Cork with stories of life as a youngster on an isolated farm in that county in the '40s . |