Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [pers pn] 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 was against it from the first . |