Example sentences of "[verb] to [pron] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said , ‘ Sickness has given me this fortune that this sultan has come to my side , at morn so health and well being have accrued to me from the arrival of this King without retinue . |
| 2 | Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met . |
| 3 | Then words had come to him from the sky . |
| 4 | In fact , he was so happy with the idea that had come to him from the writer , Peter Shaffer , he began the serious rethink of his career which friends like Lance Percival had been thinking for some time was overdue . |
| 5 | Vehicles started up again and a familiar voice shouted to him from the side of the truck . |
| 6 | He tries to guess what you say to him from the vowels . |
| 7 | Sun Microsystems Inc hopes to get one of its workstations on BBC1 's Tomorrow 's World science television programme in the UK tomorrow : Oklahoma State University 's Dr Marvin Stone has developed a hand-held device dubbed ‘ the thumper ’ which can measure the ripeness of a watermelon by delivering a blow to its skin and Sparcstations can put up a colour map indicating the ripeness of a field of watermelons from data downloaded to it from the thumper . |
| 8 | Finally , at the fifteenth count , Q had 1,704 voted transferred to him from the surplus of McDowell ( PD ) , elected , who had had votes transferred to him from twelve other candidates , F , H , B , Cr , O'S , E , M , R , S , McA , B and D. |
| 9 | An image copy of the Working-Set is taken whenever a new dictionary range is transferred to it from the Main Database . |
| 10 | The surety often takes the position from motives of friendship to the debtor , and generally not as a result of any direct bargaining between him and the creditor , or in consideration of any remuneration passing to him from the creditor . |
| 11 | Certainly the paradoxical view of ugliness as a special kind of beauty appealed to him from the start . |
| 12 | He , too , suffered from an occasional enlightening vision which came to him from the dim past and which he must have suppressed at the time … |
| 13 | These images came to her from the metal engravings of the conquest of Libya which had appeared in the illustrated journals ; she did not remember the different countries of the Italian empire in question , for all of Africa — Libya , Somalia , Eritrea alike — beat out a rhythm of adventure and spoils and heroism . |
| 14 | Five years after the revolution Lenin complained that the Communist Party had good political control only over the top echelons of the vast bureaucracy : ‘ Down below , however , there are hundreds of thousands of old officials who came to us from the Tsar and from bourgeois society and who , sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously , work against us ’ ( quoted in Merkl , 1977 , pp. 166–7 ) . |
| 15 | How differently did it appear to him from the Berelands ' assessment ! |
| 16 | The exact date of the Vendôme charter , in which Count Bouchard gave full details of the military service owed to him from the area of Vendôme , is still controversial ; but it is now accepted as an authentic document of the time of Fulk Nerra or Geoffrey Martel . |
| 17 | Another thing we 're going to talk to somebody from the N S P C C who 's coming in in a few moments to talk about Halloween trick or treating and stuff like that . |
| 18 | ‘ Senior Valuer Peter Ferguson and I will be very happy to talk to anyone from the Finaghy area who is considering a move in the near future and , of course , we offer a free valuation service at a time to suit any potential vendor . |
| 19 | Then he muttered to me from the corner of his mouth . |
| 20 | Fernando turned to her from the fridge where he was taking out a bottle of wine . |
| 21 | It was planned as a pilgrimage church with a large crypt for the relics and with stairways leading to it from the aisles . |
| 22 | You get to it from the cliff-top . ’ |
| 23 | A minute more and she was certain she had walked further than the distance from the van to where Sniffy had called to her from the undergrowth . |
| 24 | Harry 's ghost called to her from the stone skull of the castle . |
| 25 | When I 'm in the kitchen she calls to me from the sitting room , where she is sewing . |
| 26 | ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ was borne to them from the enemy lines , time and again — into the land between the opposing armies , through their own lines , and away into the darkness . |
| 27 | And this is what I think the dream is trying to tell me , a message so clear now you have shown me the way to understand these voices speaking to us from the hinterland , so to speak . |
| 28 | Nigel Dudding , you 're speaking to us from the bar at erm Henley Rugby Club , what was the atmosphere there , watching the game ? |
| 29 | When he returned to it from the telephone box outside , it was unoccupied . |
| 30 | If we allow the King 's Cross Railways Bill to proceed and in the end no high-speed link or underground link between Stratford and King 's Cross is built , we shall be left with an enormous white elephant at King 's Cross with no means of getting to it from the channel tunnel . |