Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They scrape me down from head to foot — my torn clothes , my hands , my broken knees , the nose on my face . |
| 2 | On one of them , where I farmed for 45 years , while my employees who belonged there spoke Gaelic , I also from time to time employed Scots speakers from Alyth , splendid fellows , in whose speech I could recognise classical Scots words which occur in the poetry of the Scottish Chaucerians . |
| 3 | There is undoubtedly some truth in this ; the nobility frequently sent proxies to parliament in these years ; they were too preoccupied with war to have any reason for opposing the king in parliament , and their independent campaigns on the continent took some of them away from England for several years at a time . |
| 4 | Moreover , by curbing the worst excesses of capitalism , concessions cut into the grievances of the working class so turning them away from action for fundamental transformation . |
| 5 | My voyage to Laputa , Balnibarbi , Glubbdubdrib and Luggnagg had taken me away from home for five and a half years . |
| 6 | ‘ My new life as a sailor will keep me away from England for many years , ’ he said . |
| 7 | The denial of tenderness cuts them off from communication with wives and children . |
| 8 | Mrs Denham wore heavily-rimmed glasses , and she took them off from time to time , restlessly , as she talked : the crows ' feet round her eyes were deeply scored , and her eyes without their glasses had a distant , worried look , as though committed to far other fields of concentration . |
| 9 | The second mechanism is to have special protein molecules in the membrane , able to take hold of molecules of X and pass them directionally from outside to inside . |
| 10 | My search took me further from base with each load . |
| 11 | The book is divided into seven chapters/days , which guide you on from novice to competent windsurfer , with the help of written explanations and step by step photos and diagrams . |
| 12 | British Rail will whisk you down from London in less than an hour . |
| 13 | You think that 's especially true and like say Aberdeen if you go in a shop there and and , at least it used to be the case , and asked for something you be thought you were speaking fine but they would just say , Oh my you down from Orkney for a holiday ? |
| 14 | They 'd probably keep you away from life in America . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll pick you up from Kalkara at three . |
| 16 | And what better community could you get than in Spring Street , he would ask , for had n't it a shop that supplied food , and two others that fitted you out from top to bottom ? |
| 17 | For example , they transport schoolchildren to events in unmarked buses , or pick them up from locations outside West Belfast . |
| 18 | Please guide my spirit and raise me up from depths of misery , so that my soul may be carried through your wisdom and may struggle fearlessly upwards in fiery flight . |
| 19 | Vera next door brought them back from Spain for me . |
| 20 | They drag them back from Italy at various times . |
| 21 | Do you take them out from time to time and gloat ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ They let me out from time to time , ’ he stated seriously . |
| 23 | He glanced over her slowly from head to foot , taking in the sleeveless green cotton dress with its tight bodice and full skirt that had seemed so modest when she had put it on . |
| 24 | The whiteness of his shirt seemed to emphasise his tan , but it was something in the glittering gaze , raking her slowly from head to toe , that made her hesitate . |
| 25 | I took her on from Battersea as a barely covered skeleton , and turned to Helen Lister , secretary of the Italian Greyhound club for guidance . |
| 26 | Brian Seymour 's crew brought her down from Scotland for the royal occasion and my crew joined at Southampton to put the final touches on the paint and brightwork . |
| 27 | He raised an eyebrow and looked her over from head to toe . |
| 28 | He had deceived her utterly from start to finish , and such calculated deceit was a downright insult ! |
| 29 | Mozart 's father , Leopold — himself a musician — recognised that his son was an infant prodigy and took him away from Salzburg on a concert tour of Western Europe which lasted well over three years . |
| 30 | Mr Souness , 39 next month , was yesterday admitted to a Cheshire hospital for triple heart by-pass surgery which will keep him away from work until next season . |