Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] from a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She reminded him of somebody from a movie , maybe it was Kathleen Turner in Body Heat , sometimes Kim Basinger in 9½ Weeks . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It 's more like something from a museum , she thought . |
| 6 | ‘ Her legs and arms were like raw meat and her hands were black , like something from a bonfire . |
| 7 | He was like something from a Boy 's Own comic . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was like something from a restoration comedy as he crouched in his flat in Bateman Street and they began beating down the door . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Buzz , only half awake , wore an old Jaeger dressing gown that now looked like something from a dog basket . |
| 13 | The garden 's marvellous , like something from a show place … . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | People living in a nearby travellers camp were woken by the crash , they describe the scene as something from a nightmare . |
| 16 | Neil Sollis can turn logs that would have been pulped , into anything from a piece of doll 's furniture to a chess piece . |
| 17 | There are presses which are strictly private in the Carter sense , operating in anything from a back kitchen to a fully equipped shop , perhaps content simply to joy in the smell of printer 's ink and the magic of creation , without aiming to sell a single book ; publishing firms calling themselves presses who rightly pride themselves on the high quality of their output ; commercial printers who are equally jealous of the standard of their press work ; teaching establishments attached to universities , colleges and schools for experimental and training purposes ; official presses , controlled by governmental or other agencies ; fugitive and clandestine presses , often short-lived and hazardously operated , because of an adverse political or religious climate , or because their owners are dodging copyright laws ; and there is a hotch-potch of firms who pretentiously arrogate to themselves the word ‘ press ’ , to which they have little or no right in terms of either fine printing or independence . |
| 18 | In my experience , clients will not give up their contacts amongst the trade media and they feel at their most confident when talking to someone from a publication in their own trade or profession . |
| 19 | But , what I 'm saying is , if you , salesmen particularly get one , you 'll need one to get round the country your patch , but you need to get familiar with the towns up and down the country for deli , for delivery , cos your customers will talk about the area and you 're talking to someone from a transport café , you have n't got a clue where the towns are . |
| 20 | English speakers do indeed find it natural , and complain mightily about the bizarre foreign habit of assigning gender to anything from a turnip to a sideboard . |
| 21 | The practical user of solids as load-bearing materials requires information on , for example , displacement , load and time in order to design a useful structure — interpreting the term structure as anything from a bridge to a woven garment . |
| 22 | We can take your booking for the entire trip : air or rail travel , car hire , and reservations for anything from a honeymoon suite in a five-star luxury hotel to a self-catering villa for families travelling together . |