Example sentences of "[verb] from [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the suggestion might well have come from him in the first place , which would have been so much better for everyone . |
| 2 | ‘ It came from me in the first place , did n't it ? |
| 3 | I did n't know and I hid from them in the semantics lab when they came to shrink me , and I sold myself to someone who did n't know how to do it . |
| 4 | He would lead me through small flocks of goats , or to where the traffic was worst , and then briefly hide from me in the narrow alley-ways or the open shops . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , Denis and I provided the background music for this particular ‘ pack in the box ’ and much hissing was heard from me in the interval into the ear of our Company Manager Jeremy Adams . |
| 6 | As they came up , Meredith was surprised at the amount of body-heat coming from them in the low outside temperature . |
| 7 | One part of the project was of course specifically concerned with creating a core of schools and the dissemination of good practice derived from them in the inservice education and training of teachers ( Objective 4 ) . |
| 8 | So when the personnel officer told her she 'd be hearing from them in the next two days , Muriel went away optimistic . |
| 9 | Paragraph at the same time can you inform me if , apart from your national list trials , do you have a recommended list similar to that operating in the United Kingdom , question mark , paragraph , as far as the agricultural seeds are concerned I take it that you operate a distinctness , comma , uniformity and stability trial as well as the value for cultivation and usage trial , question mark paragraph , can you inform me how long your official trials last , and what weights of seeds are required for these trials paragraph , I look forward to hearing from you in the near future , kindest regards , yours sincerely |
| 10 | Her face is shaded from him in the failing light . |
| 11 | His little-boy mask had slipped by a fraction , a sure sign of the energies that had been taken from him in the past hour , and someone else was looking out — someone much harder , more calculating . |
| 12 | Mike Twite was one of eleven souls taken from us in the Varsity disaster of August 1984 . |
| 13 | As is well known , Tolkien 's grand design , or desire , was to give back to his own country the legends that had been taken from it in the Dark Ages after the Conquest , when elves and woodwoses and sigelhearwan too had all been forced into oblivion . |
| 14 | His son , Guillaume de Sescas , esquire ( douzet ) recognized that he was a liegeman and military tenant of Albret in July 1309 , holding land and tithes from him in the Bazadais , and owing him service , counsel and loyalty in perpetuity . |
| 15 | ‘ By adding up the days migraine stole from me in the past , I calculate that I shall be able to enjoy living for three extra weeks in a year ! ’ |
| 16 | This passage haunted Eliot who was to quote from it in the original title of Poems , 1920 , as well as in Ash-Wednesday . |