Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] from the [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 Sister had heard them from the S.C.O . 's office and was already beside me .
2 They have no enforceable right to enter British territory , and in some cases the Government is authorized by Statute to exclude and even expel them from the United Kingdom .
3 She sighed , coveting the memory , then went on : ‘ Did the Cap'n buy thee from the Guinea Coast and ship thee across the sea ? ’
4 Damian helped her from the Mercedes .
5 " Now in 1849 both companies supplied virtually the same water … the Lambeth Company got theirs from the Thames close to the Hungerford Bridge ; the Southwark and Vauxhall Company got theirs at Battersea-fields .
6 While the child is in care no-one may cause him to be known by a new surname or remove him from the United Kingdom without either the written consent of every person who has parental responsibility or the leave of the court ( s33(7) ) .
7 One person recognised him from the Bath Festival .
8 there is an opportunity of being able to screen it from the Farnsfield direction .
9 They belonged to Hammersmith Council who had bought them from the BBC for something like three million pounds .
10 Their message to the politicians seems to be , ‘ We protected you from the JVP .
11 They 've had him from the Wednesday , was it the Wed er , no from the Saturday to the Wednesday cos she was working and they took him on to seaside somewhere and when come home , he 's having stitches in his head where he 'd fell , he hit it on the stone or summat and I said oh did he enjoy it apart from that , she said he was a swine last night , he was screaming and hitting me and she called her husband down from work , she could n't control him , said she should of smacked his arse and put him in the cot .
12 Counter-insurgency and its attendant covert and intelligence aspects have had an inordinate degree of latitude and influence on policy in Ulster partly because the Westminster cabinet and parliament are incredibly ignorant of the region and have been well content if the English politicians and Whitehall civil servants who administer it from the Northern Ireland Office at Stormont Castle succeeded in preventing its problems from impinging on the affairs of the mainland .
13 Marcos fairy tale A touching story has reached me from the Manila Times of how Ferdinand Marcos had planned to bequeath more than £2.5bn in gold to his beloved people , but fell ill before he could sign the will .
14 Karen Levy , 32 , collected him from the Alexandra private hospital in Cheadle , Greater Manchester , for a two-hour trip after getting the go-ahead from his consultant .
15 But social services decided they did not have sufficient information to justify removing him from the Roberts ' care .
16 But social services decided they did not have sufficient information to justify removing him from the Roberts ' care .
17 Some of the houses were built on high platforms to protect them from the June floods .
18 Jane Brompton called me from the Betty Ford clinic last night and it 's absolutely 100% sure .
19 ‘ And that actually created some problems for me , because guitarists would call me from the States or Britain and say , ‘ I want the sound that George Lynch gets on ‘ Lock And Key ’ .
20 However , the 1980 Green Paper on the role of the C. and A.G. rejected the call for involvement with nationalized industries ( para. 50 , p. 17 ) and the National Audit Act 1983 explicitly excludes them from the C. and A.G. 's scope .
21 The tight-lipped reply : ‘ We 're supposed to protect you from the IRA , not the voters . ’
22 ‘ We tracked her from the Threadneedle site .
23 I could read it from the Oxford
24 So , from Tuesday through to Thursday , he 'll take us from the Blackhills of Dakota , through Dances with Wolves country to the scene of Custer 's legendary last stand .
25 They held him in a detention camp for three months , the Germans , and then the officers had come to see him from the SS .
26 Mr Slovo , who learnt about the plan to kill him from the Johannesburg Star , not from the police , attributed the plot to the right 's desperation .
27 Nothing could have quicker distanced him from the Pommie chairman or won him their attention so soon .
28 Gray made more than 600 Football League appearances in his playing career and shared in Darlington 's double championship triumph which took them from the GM Vauxhall Conference to the Third Division in successive seasons .
29 Merseyside police have revealed that they probably killed James a few hours after they took him from the Strand shopping centre in Bootle .
30 I mean , the Sex Pistols took it from The Stooges , the Stones took it from Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker , and the Beatles …
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