Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] to [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am , I was born in Essex , in in hospital and my family all come from Essex , and I was brought up in Upminster and I was very fortunate in that I was born into a christian home and I had christian parents and christian grandparents and christian aunts and uncles and I went to church from the time I was about two or three weeks old . |
| 2 | I learned to garden from my mother 's head gardener , Mr Buffett , who was one of the most organised people I have ever known . |
| 3 | The feelings of the young hon. Member for Gedling ( Mr. Mitchell ) about the way in which local government has broken up were expressed subjectively and I suspect that he will not agree with me when I say that they seemed to date from about 1979 — and we know what happened in 1979 when the hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) was first elected . |
| 4 | They seem to date from the early sixth century , and while some are pure Greek others are almost purely oriental : a late phase of ‘ orientalising ’ . |
| 5 | Hesitantly , they began to trip from side to side , facing each other , he always encouraging her , like two lunatic children in a dance . |
| 6 | Soviet scientists reported unprecedented levels of acid rain falling in south-east Russia in April 1991 which they attributed to pollution from the burning Kuwaiti oil wells . |
| 7 | Quinn 's predatory skills outshone the player who cost 10 times more , Dean Saunders , who enjoyed the same sort of start when he moved to Villa from Liverpool . |
| 8 | It leads to refreshment from springs that never run dry . |
| 9 | Harte 's hair and clothing were scorched but he managed to stagger from his home leaving his relatives trapped inside . |
| 10 | At high stringency it hybridizes to DNA from male but not female S. macroura , suggesting it represents a transcript from a Y-located gene . |
| 11 | Later he retracted these comments which he attributed to pressure from the press . |