Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have ended up with my children in a Women 's Hostel , still black and blue after the battering I got from the drunken unfaithful bully I was stupid enough to marry . |
| 2 | What MPG range can I expect from the standard Land Rover V8 ? |
| 3 | I came from the very opposite . |
| 4 | FBI spokesman Bob Ricks said : ‘ I believed from the very beginning they had a certain time agenda . |
| 5 | After all as I tramped around the hillside barns in the frosty air I was working up a better appetite for my turkey than all the millions lying in bed or slumped by the fire ; and this was aided by the innumerable aperitifs I received from the hospitable farmers . |
| 6 | Clearly I can not get along entirely on factual information , any more than I infer from the mere facts how to act here and now . |
| 7 | Tiring of the crowd , I climbed from the reeking water . |
| 8 | I contracted from the local community unit a nursing team that would be led by general practitioners and would form a true practice based primary health care team . |
| 9 | Now the , the other thing I recall from the previous meeting , Rod seems to have minutes I think , well he was looking at them before . |
| 10 | I jump for joy … but until I hear from the Foreign Office or from Martin , I wo n't believe it . |
| 11 | It 's a concept I adapted from the American presidential campaigns . |
| 12 | While I could not afford to buy new books , I get what I like from the local library . |
| 13 | I was beginning to feel sleepy , and very cold ; the temperature seemed to have gone down , and I was shivering even while I sweated from the furnace-like emanations of the curry . |
| 14 | I opened two bottles that I retrieved from the sticky mess on the cabin floor . |
| 15 | I heard from the white-glowing crucible of cutting-edge technological advancement that our humble kitchen had become . |
| 16 | ‘ I heard from the equine laboratory in Newmarket . |
| 17 | Casements on eternity , these great patient masterpieces ought to calm the mind and nourish the spirit , but seldom do , and its rare that I emerge from the National Gallery feeling I have really taken advantage of what 's on offer . |
| 18 | I understand from the hon. Gentleman that the station provided for in the Bill is intended to serve trains coming initially along a different route — not from Stratford — to the Euroterminal . |
| 19 | But I believe from the written evidence that there is equally no dispute that the boundary which has existed for ten years , the tight boundary , is also capable of being a suitable greenbelt boundary if indeed there is to be an inset . |
| 20 | Now I guess from the affluent audience we 've got here today that you pay more than that because you 're living in higher rated value properties I guess . |
| 21 | I note from the supplied listings that you 're loading a mouse driver twice — once in CONFIG.SYS and again in AUTOEXEC.BAT . |
| 22 | I gather from the little bits of information which came my way that the match was a disaster . |
| 23 | ‘ I knew from the very start that you sent that poison pen letter , Eleanor . |
| 24 | I knew from the thick fragrance that filled the air that it was Mrs. Constantine . |
| 25 | I think I copied from the old lot of |
| 26 | ‘ Hello , I 'm trying to clarify a rather confused report we 've picked up — I think from the local police — about an incident at the hospital last night , or it could have been early this morning . |
| 27 | One was a very nice garment made out of a kind of silk which Mother and I bought from the secondhand clothes lady who ran a stall in Barnard Castle . |
| 28 | Furthermore , while inquiring into possible alternative schemes , I learned from the managing director of Norwich Union Health Care that the seemingly more reasonable ‘ express care policy ’ I was about to take out was barred to doctors . |
| 29 | I quote from the declared aims and policies of CND : ’ CND believes that British independent nuclear weapons and American nuclear bases and weapons in Britain do nothing to increase the security of Britain and should be unilaterally and unconditionally rejected and removed . ’ |
| 30 | I quote from the graphic account of the wife of a teacher who suffered a false accusation of this kind : ’ An article about the allegation appeared in heavy type on the front page of the local newspaper and the headline was on the hoardings outside the newsagents . |