Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Scroungers ’ expect something for nothing from the Welfare State , rather than offering a fair day 's work for a fair day 's pay . |
| 2 | Golf Magazine , Motorcycle World , Bike , Amateur Gardening — there are specialist magazines for everyone from the rat fancier to the rugby fan . |
| 3 | Yeah , because I mean , like when I had the home erm , that again obviously you ca n't , people said that , I mean , it 's changed a lot but when I had the home you did n't just pull an , out anybody from the street and call them care assistants you had to offer them a day 's training every week |
| 4 | In all these arrangements , it is clear that the aim of everyone from the pope downwards was to keep Anselm happy during his lifetime , while retaining the power to make new arrangements for the more distant future after his death . |
| 5 | I wanted the approval of everyone from the bus conductor to the Pakistani shopkeeper , because he owned a shop and spoke English . |
| 6 | Her strange deep voice pronounced the words like a parody of someone from the Trento area , where the warm and cold currents of Italian and German meet and mingle . |
| 7 | She reminded him of somebody from a movie , maybe it was Kathleen Turner in Body Heat , sometimes Kim Basinger in 9½ Weeks . |
| 8 | Sovereign Worldwide would be delighted to arrange your ‘ Wedding Package ’ , taking care of everything from the registrar to your flowers . |
| 9 | Their presence , either in medieval England or aboard a space rocket , situated them ideally as narrators ; to offer explanations of everything from the Battle of Hastings to nuclear propulsion . |
| 10 | In England and Wales , the Registrar General 's social classes , which are derived from people 's occupations , are used to look at the distribution of everything from the incidence of stillbirth to the distribution of owner occupation . |
| 11 | They could often be seen leaning on farm-yard gates , chewing on straws and marvelling at Noddy 's turn of speed as he roared by in the slipstream of anything from a milk marketing board tanker to a Maserati ! |
| 12 | During the day , take your pick of anything from a pizza to a sizzling steak served at the poolside barbecue grill — and afternoon coffee takes on a flavour all of its own when enjoyed with a fresh pastry cooked before your eyes . |
| 13 | ‘ Why is it sick to dress like someone from the past ? |
| 14 | A small white dressing table In one corner looked like something from a doll 's house , gleaming and bright with tidy arrangements of bottles and jars . |
| 15 | It 's more like something from a museum , she thought . |
| 16 | ‘ Her legs and arms were like raw meat and her hands were black , like something from a bonfire . |
| 17 | He was like something from a Boy 's Own comic . |
| 18 | The court heard that a police officer on the scene said Ms Leyshon 's burns were so bad she looked like something from a horror movie . |
| 19 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 20 | It was like something from a restoration comedy as he crouched in his flat in Bateman Street and they began beating down the door . |
| 21 | However clever it was at irradiating all those little blue MPs as it passed over them , it still looked too much like something from a game show or a funfair at the end of the pier . |
| 22 | Buzz , only half awake , wore an old Jaeger dressing gown that now looked like something from a dog basket . |
| 23 | The garden 's marvellous , like something from a show place … . |
| 24 | It looks like something from the planet Zog . |
| 25 | talking about things and things like everything from the universe erm |
| 26 | The versatility of it is the big attraction ; it can sound like anything from a vintage Strat to an Ibanez or a Les Paul , with the mid-boost in it . |
| 27 | To talk about everything from the fact that you do n't fancy coffee that week to things which are deeply personal . |
| 28 | The hardships that Ceauşescu imposed were not only necessary to provide the funds and material for everything from the House of the People ( to which they would be denied access ) to canals without traffic and power-stations without fuel , but also formed part of the folk-wisdom of tyrants going back much further in history than Ceauşescu 's own model , Stalin . |
| 29 | The Catering Manager 's office next door to the Refectory in the Richmond Building is the hub of all action where secretary Gill O' Brien runs the daily order books and takes bookings for everything from the Vice-Chancellor 's lunches to conference buffets . |
| 30 | People living in a nearby travellers camp were woken by the crash , they describe the scene as something from a nightmare . |