Example sentences of "[pers pn] from [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bachelors have their staircase at the front of the house off the entrance hall ; young ladies theirs from the mistress 's boudoir on the first floor to their bedrooms above it . |
| 2 | Staff from the general practices collected their vaccines from the central office , while health clinics received theirs from the district 's transport service . |
| 3 | For that reason , it is worth thinking about what is interesting about you from a journalist 's point of view before trying to woo him or her with your beautiful noise . |
| 4 | It has sunscreens to protect you from the sun 's harmful rays , and a unique bio-collagen complex to nourish and moisturise . |
| 5 | Erm what , what was the feeling that came over to you from the tenants ' group at the time ? |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , preserve me from a woman 's corn . |
| 7 | Eva smiled at me from the driver 's seat . |
| 8 | It was the same man who followed me from the doctor 's surgery . |
| 9 | We also tested a sample of autistic children in the chocolate-finding task and found that they were again behaving just like the three-year-olds : going to the baited box for twenty trials , despite wanting to win chocolates and occasionally trying to filch them from the experimenter 's bag . |
| 10 | They abandoned the ride and walked instead in the shade of the trees beside the track , but although this protected them from the sun 's rays the leaden heat was everywhere and there was no escaping it . |
| 11 | It is certainly helped by the fact that the spadefoot toad 's eggs are black , covered by a pigment called melanin which helps protect them from the sun 's rays ( the same pigment is responsible for tanning in human beings ) . |
| 12 | A Microsoft Corp staffer is reported to have told Sun Microsystems Inc that Microsoft would make Windows such a moving target that Sun , with its WABI Windows Application Binary Interface , could not keep up ( CI No 2,147 ) : if the tale is true and Microsoft means it , it means that the company has learned a little too well from its long cohabitation with IBM , and that the seeds of its own destruction are now being sown — for years , IBM added features and tweaked its mainframes with no thought of improving them from the user 's point of view , but simply to trip up competitors , and once a dominant company starts resorting to such tactics , it fatally injures the regard with which it is held by the outside world , and is embarking on the slippery slope that leads to the debacle IBM finds itself in today . |
| 13 | I asked him where he was goin' to get the pennies from , and he said he 'd nick them from the superintendent 's gas money . |
| 14 | We sat facing him from the customer 's end of a leather-topped desk . |
| 15 | How differently did it appear to him from the Berelands ' assessment ! |
| 16 | He glanced in to find Nadine Cunningham smiling at him from the driver 's seat . |
| 17 | But social services decided they did not have sufficient information to justify removing him from the Roberts ' care . |
| 18 | But social services decided they did not have sufficient information to justify removing him from the Roberts ' care . |
| 19 | Louis did not at all resemble Dahl 's amiable dream dispenser as Preston remembered him from the twins ' illustrated paperback . |
| 20 | If he was to save her from a lifetime 's retreat from life and love he had to move her along the right road as quickly as he dared and as quickly as she would let him . |
| 21 | She lifted a hand to shade her eyes and Martin Jackson 's face appeared on the backdrop of light , as if he were looking at her from the sun 's centre . |
| 22 | Probably were n't I do n't know but they seemed to us I may be looking at it from a child 's eyes but er that 's how they seemed to be to me . |
| 23 | HMG 's total budget is P£4,000 per year , so maybe you should multiply all my figures by about three to see it from a minister 's perspective : the poor dears are trying to run the country on poverty-line wages . |
| 24 | I mean , I knew what was going to happen when I started the exercise , but if you contemplate it from a teacher 's point of view , if I go out and commit suicide or break down you 'll know why , wo n't you . |
| 25 | Looking at it from a businessman 's point of view , it 's the obvious thing to do . |
| 26 | You do n't know whether he did it from an entrepreneur 's point of view , or from er |
| 27 | We 've described it from the offspring 's point of view . |
| 28 | They have passed through the flasks electric sparks simulating lightning , and ultraviolet light , which would have been much stronger before the Earth had an ozone layer shielding it from the sun 's rays . |
| 29 | Three guys hijacked it from the Company 's yard but I saw then and climbed into the refridgeration unit at the back . |
| 30 | Somehow hearing it from the Duke 's own lips bestows upon his chosen occupation a form of royal blessing . |