Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Dr Carrington had particularly asked me to disconnect him from the ventilator . |
| 2 | ‘ Here , let me shield you from the wind . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I just called to say I 'm happy and I mean it from the bottom of my heart , ’ said Stevie . |
| 4 | ‘ I borrow them from the library . |
| 5 | I got it from the telly . |
| 6 | ‘ I phoned him from the training ground yesterday and had a row with him because it was embarrassing for Barnet . |
| 7 | Mrs I excluded you from the speech after you asked the question |
| 8 | ‘ I told you from the start that my relationship with my ‘ harem ’ was purely a business one . |
| 9 | ‘ I told you from the start when we arranged all this that today would n't be a good day , Rebecca . |
| 10 | ‘ I told you from the beginning that Joe Landau was no good for you . |
| 11 | I opposed it from the very beginning . |
| 12 | " I fetched it from the boatyard office . " |
| 13 | Gently , I extracted them from the soil with the trowel I 'd brought more as alibi than implement . |
| 14 | I released him from the tomb . |
| 15 | ‘ I get it from the radio . |
| 16 | Come and clean my windows and I owed him from the last time . |
| 17 | I collected him from the airport and he scarcely drew breath ! |
| 18 | It costs 3.50 , but should come free to members ( I collected mine from the ticket office on the night ) . |
| 19 | ‘ And I loved you from the moment I walked into the factory , even if you did have a false impression of me . |
| 20 | Turning now very briefly to the H One D the Greater York issue , clearly the comments I 've made about the calculations for York have a knock on effect for our position on Greater York , the Greater York figures as I understand it from the County Council are based on a one hundred percent migration assumption , if the technical difference between us er we are right then we believe clearly the Greater York figure should be increased by an appropriate amount , and the we 've suggested the increased cut should be seven hundred er relating to the city itself I ca n't calculate with any great accuracy what the figure for the surrounding parts of Greater York might be , but it would be we suspect only another one to two hundred more on top of that , therefore that underst explains the reason why the City Council suggests that the Greater York should be increased to the ten four figure from the nine seven . |
| 21 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |
| 22 | There are many accounts of the death of Richard , this is from Darts History of Canterbury Cathedral 1726 : " The manner of his death is thus reported by Birchington and Gervaise , and confirmed by Geraldus , " That being at his seat at Wrotham he had a vision of a very terrible person , who asked him , in fierce manner who he was , to whom when he , for fear made no answer , thou art he , continued he , who destroy the church , and therefore will I destroy thee from the face of the earth " at which words he vanished . |
| 23 | He told me about Midge when he got back to London and I called him from the shop one Saturday , telling him we 'd be interested in him as a singer . |
| 24 | No , I knew him from the school . |
| 25 | To expect a genius — yes , my daughter is a genius , I knew it from the first — to endure the humdrum ways of marriage , bear children , become a housewife — it does not bear thinking of ! |
| 26 | ‘ She 's a trouble-maker ; I knew it from the beginning , ’ she muttered . |
| 27 | I saw her from the window , walking upright on two canes without a pause and there were twenty cliffside steps from the gate to my borrowed front door . |
| 28 | I saw them from the window and called to them that I would tell the police who they were . |
| 29 | I saw them from the penthouse bar |
| 30 | ‘ I saw you from the top of the tower . |