Example sentences of "[verb] from [pron] [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 | Fran had read all she could about Luke Calder before the interview and knew that he came from the poorest part of Glasgow and that he had got to where he was today by dint of sheer hard work and determination , but , looking at him now , she found it hard to imagine that he had come from anything but a moneyed background . |
| 3 | Reluctantly she made her way back to the house , then gave a gasp of dismay as Penry erupted from it like a rocket . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Yeah hall hired from you for a function |
| 6 | Cassie knew that Johnny was now separated from her by a gulf of fifty years . |
| 7 | Loch of Stenness lies adjacent to Harray , separated from it by a narrow strip of moorland dominated by the Ring of Brodgar . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | On each side of the bath , separated from it by a colonnade , were halls for spectators . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | Always you are separated from it by an expanse of one thing or another : docks or roads . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | Rovers suffered from something of a fadeout and we even had a number of home fans who felt inclined to boo . |
| 16 | Clara 's one solace had been the cold , tight dignity of her case , and this had been stolen from her , robbed from her by an elderly woman 's few words of casual humanity . |
| 17 | In less than ten years the market for these potent desktop machines has grown from nothing into a global business with sales of $1.4 billion last year . |
| 18 | Pleas for understanding began to pour from him in a stream . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He turned from her with a casual wave of his hand and began making his way back towards the barn . |
| 21 | In fact , such was the response to our initial soundings that we now wish to broaden the discussions to include a much larger audience and would therefore be keen to hear from anyone with a view to express or , an interest in this area . |
| 22 | Cultins Road is due for demolition and New Edinburgh Ltd would like to hear from anyone with a three pound hammer and a strong arm who may be interested in the job . |
| 23 | Lesley walked to the microphone as the chairperson retreated from it to a spatter of applause . |
| 24 | A void title on the other hand is no title at all and an innocent purchaser who buys from someone with a void title can derive no benefit from section 23 ( although , of course , he might acquire good title by virtue of some other exception to the ‘ nemo dat ’ principle ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The cat withdrew from her like a sooty ghost and stole away along the slope towards the standing stone . |
| 27 | These eagles would not know what a zoo was , or believe that he had escaped from one in a place where no eagles lived naturally . |
| 28 | 11 To there friends who knew her , her self-assertion was born from nothing but a necessary and confident determination to succeed in an area where women rarely rose to prominence . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |