Example sentences of "[verb] from [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | All AE 's immediately turned to stare at one of their number a poker-faced young man , who described any client who would n't buy from him as a " cunt " even scribbling comments to that effect on the client record cards . |
| 2 | Reluctantly she made her way back to the house , then gave a gasp of dismay as Penry erupted from it like a rocket . |
| 3 | ‘ And so , ’ I continue , ‘ the suntan becomes fashionable and it 's no longer as necessary as it was — taking Robinson Crusoe by way of example — to hide from it under a parasol in order to conserve that fairness of skin threatened by the desert island climate . |
| 4 | Yeah hall hired from you for a function |
| 5 | Cassie knew that Johnny was now separated from her by a gulf of fifty years . |
| 6 | Loch of Stenness lies adjacent to Harray , separated from it by a narrow strip of moorland dominated by the Ring of Brodgar . |
| 7 | Apart from indicating past , present , and future reference , each past or future reference is marked to show whether the event in question is immediately connected to the present , is separated from it by a period of time but taking place on the same day , or is separated from the present by at least one night . |
| 8 | He trudged the maze of little streets , sometimes on the edge of the sea , sometimes , and unpredictably , separated from it by a row of cottages . |
| 9 | This family is characterised by the disk covered with plates often carrying spinelets or granules which do not conceal them , except in Ophiopholis where the granules obscure the plates ; radial shields usually conspicuous ; one apical papilla flanked with rounded oral papillae often separated from it by a diastema and not forming a contiguous series with it , except in Histampica ; the second oral tentacle pore opening within the oral slit ; arm spines short , pointed and erect , not appressed to the side of the arm . |
| 10 | On each side of the bath , separated from it by a colonnade , were halls for spectators . |
| 11 | This is bordered by a continental slope which inclines at an angle of around 3–6° towards the ocean basin and which is separated from it by a continental rise ( Fig. 2.5 ) . |
| 12 | How did you tell a man who had just expressed his undying love for you and his need to remain in your arms for ever and ever that he was separated from you by a distance of fifty years , and that only by some perverse and cruel trick of time had you been allowed to meet at all ? |
| 13 | Pleas for understanding began to pour from him in a stream . |
| 14 | Shortly before his death he complained with much justification that his Belgian subjects were refusing to receive from him as a gift benefits which the French were at the same moment extorting from Louis XVI by a great upheaval . |
| 15 | He turned from her with a casual wave of his hand and began making his way back towards the barn . |
| 16 | Lesley walked to the microphone as the chairperson retreated from it to a spatter of applause . |
| 17 | But Le Page and Tabouret-Keller 's hypothesis is not primarily concerned with interaction between an individual speaker and an interlocutor , although this might follow from it as a special case . |
| 18 | The cat withdrew from her like a sooty ghost and stole away along the slope towards the standing stone . |
| 19 | She could n't face seeing that realisation in his eyes , for the sake of her own sanity had to get away — had to flee from him for a second time . |
| 20 | Alternatively , the targeted assets can be hived down to Target and all the other assets and liabilities of the transferor company can be extracted from it into a company which is to stay in the vendor group . |
| 21 | He was standing behind her now , and she could feel the energy emanating from him like a tangible force . |
| 22 | He seemed to go from her for a moment , then he recollected where he was . |
| 23 | The statement went on to say that UITF 3 ‘ clearly indicates that the goodwill component should be included as part of the profit or loss on disposal , and not distanced from it as a separate item . |
| 24 | Under the persuasion of the Bow Street Runners , information was wrung from them about a meeting of the Wokingham Blacks , and a complete troop of Horse Grenadiers was drafted down to the forest . |
| 25 | ‘ No , I have not heard from him for a month now . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Considering I 'm eight and a half months pregnant and have n't heard from you for a couple of weeks . |
| 27 | A purchaser of land might well be uneasy if he knew that , even if he had no notice of a trust , the land could be recovered from him by a trustee . |
| 28 | Come on , now — ’ He had no need to say more because Cameron had risen to his feet in the greying light and a song was coming from him in a steady flow of sound and a hard gravelly voice that resonated like a pipe . |
| 29 | Yes , but she could be parting from him in a different way — ; stealing away , running off , he was surprised she had never done so , that she had n't killed the old woman with a poison in the way she had perhaps schemed to kill him , that she had not held her under just a moment too long when she took her swimming that she had not simply abandoned her in the settlement . |
| 30 | Coatlique is often depicted with a child in her arms , and the first man was thought to have sprung from her as a result of divine conception . |