Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [pron] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chemistry had been between them from the start , waiting only for a wayward spark to ignite it . |
| 2 | The England that Pound mourns the loss of is , as it had been for him from the first , an integral province of western Europe , sharing a common culture with France and always reaching out , through France , to the shores of the Mediterranean . |
| 3 | Prince , he said , ‘ has been with me from the commencement of my various works . |
| 4 | Prized most of all was the collection of classical poetry — from John Donne to Robert Browning — which enhanced the Hebraic and Yiddish verse that had been with him from the first . |
| 5 | In Tolkien , by huge contrast , he met a man whose style had been with him from the beginning . |
| 6 | But his fascination with motion , the ‘ gate of natural philosophy ’ , had probably been with him from the beginning of that decade . |
| 7 | Whitaker had been with him from the very start , a solid , dependable man who knew his own limitations . |
| 8 | The odds were against us from the start at Lincoln — and he knew it . |
| 9 | I mean Mr Chairman it may just say honestly , I mean this is among ourselves from the commercial point of view there 's no doubt about it , I 'm in the grocery trade , the more you get on a lorry when you deliver you get every single |
| 10 | ‘ I was against it from the first . |
| 11 | ‘ When we were real little , my Dad was into anything from The Chieftains to Sly & The Family Stone , to Joe Cocker , to Buffalo Springfield ; there were so many different things that he loved . |