Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] from [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was buoyed up suddenly on the wave of amazement and admiration that she could feel enveloping her from across the whole room . |
| 2 | I was just going to say , I think what you say on full employment , erm , elsewhere they 're keeping wages and pay up is n't it , erm , and I 've known a couple in Telford again , that there 's work there , a new company it 's perfectly easy to take on all the good skilled labour they want , then they say they feel they 're very guilty because they 're poaching it from across the road , the British company has probably been two wages so that the jobs , it does mount up , so I do n't , I , I would like to know more about erm , what the low pay unit would really do to help us , and I look at this eight thousand two hundred and eighty pounds , and I think that would go an awful long way in the Mr Chairman , in helping to keep that going , which creates all the people who leave and get jobs , and good jobs , and get skills , and erm , I , I , it may be if there 's going to be a big budget , eight thousand pounds is not very much , but I , but when you think an individual project like that of course , any sort of traineeship , it 's a lot of money . |
| 3 | If he can not stand , the patient might be transferred to his bed before being cleaned , but if he is using a commode , it is usually possible to clean him from under the commode seat , once the pan of the commode has been taken out of the way . |
| 4 | When I finish one colour I cut it from under the yarn guides at the back of the machine , leaving the yarn threaded through the assembly . |
| 5 | As he walked up to the house his black bitch , Polly , joined him from behind the compost heap in which she had been happily rootling the past half-hour . |
| 6 | Quinn had watched him from across the street , tending his exterior fruit-display or disappearing inside to attend to a customer . |
| 7 | Then Izzie was calling him from behind the pageant . |
| 8 | and they lift it from behind the windbreak , cradle it |
| 9 | But even as he prayed he could hear the voice of William 's grandad berating him from under the lid of the closed coffin . |
| 10 | I just grabbed it from underneath the garage |
| 11 | Do you know that page of yours from upper and lower cases on display in the Design Museum , that looks very well there — apart from the fact that you can read it from across the room . |
| 12 | Outside the Atlantic Koehler ( 1922a ) records it from off the Philippines with a bathymetric range of 1165–2081 m . |
| 13 | Linium Got it from down the chemist . |
| 14 | On the right hand side , you come out and on to the patio , you could get them from down the garden there . |
| 15 | The first specks of light rain fell on Trent 's face as he looked up to see the motor yacht 's captain studying him from over the brilliantly-varnished taffrail . |
| 16 | Identifying him from among the helmeted figures strapped into the cars had proved impossible . |
| 17 | I bet he had to get it from out the back did he ? |
| 18 | So have him do it from across the river . |
| 19 | The subject would climb upon a chair to brush them from about the gas jet or stealthily try to touch an imaginary fly on the table with his finger . |
| 20 | I 've been watching you from over the wall . |
| 21 | So an extra place was laid , and Jennifer allowed to sit between Jill and Nathan , with Matthew pulling faces to amuse her from across the table and Tristram in a flame of embarrassment at having her so near and yet so far . |
| 22 | Immediately Tom dragged him from under the blanket and he began barking and chasing his tail . |
| 23 | He was watching the Headmistress with an exceedingly wary eye and he kept edging farther and farther away from her with little shuffles of his feet , rather as a rat might edge away from a terrier that is watching it from across the room . |
| 24 | I thought about leaving a few of Simon 's visiting cards around , or suggesting they all get together and build a glider in the loft , but then I saw the frosty-eyed Matron in a blue uniform and matching hair rinse clocking me from behind the desk . |
| 25 | You see it from across the street . |
| 26 | Very gently the two women drew the light quilt away , sliding it from under the arm of the sleeper , drawing it down at both sides , peeling it off and over the end of the bed . |
| 27 | At least the German infantry wo n't be attacking us from across the field in front of our positions , as long as this barrage keeps up . |