Example sentences of "[pers pn] from [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sahara was theirs from the southern outskirts of Ajdabiya to the Egyptian border , to Wainat and Sudan , and then to the French conquests in Chad . |
| 2 | He 's saved you from a long prison-term . |
| 3 | ‘ Are you from a military family ? ’ the Doctor asked , more to break the embarrassing silence than out of genuine interest . |
| 4 | Alternatively , use a rug or foam mat to protect you from a hard floor . |
| 5 | They will protect you from a fatal accident when using electric gardening equipment . |
| 6 | Taking a mineral-water lunch with your colleagues in a secluded senior executive dining room can divorce you from the real contributors as much as from the contribution you seek . |
| 7 | As to the other , I heard about you from the other side as well , did n't I ? |
| 8 | Looking at you from the other side of the desk I might feel you have misdiagnosed yourself . |
| 9 | ‘ Did n't you guess , my beautiful idiot , that I 've been crazy about you from the first time I saw you standing outside your hotel bedroom in France ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I think I 've loved you from the first moment I saw you , ’ she said , and drew in her breath sharply as he crushed her against him . |
| 11 | Send back up the hierarchy any work which significantly diverts you from the agreed priorities . |
| 12 | But since , so jump upon this bloody question , you from the Polack wars , and you from England , are here arrived , give order that these bodies high on a stage be placed to the view ; and let me speak to the yet unknowing world how these things came about : so shall you hear of carnal , bloody and unnatural acts , of accidental judgments , casual slaughters , of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause , and , in this upshot , purposes mistook fallen on the inventors ' heads : all this can I truly deliver . |
| 13 | So the paper you 've got in front of you from the last meeting then . |
| 14 | You know I 've loved you from the very beginning and I 'll go on loving you . |
| 15 | The hotel to stay in is the Victoria , a handsome pile run by the genial Platzer family ; they send a minibus to fetch you from the little airport at Berne — one hour 's drive away — and Herr Platzer then shows you where to hire ski equipment ( roughly £24 a week ) and organise lessons . |
| 16 | I 'll quote you from the Daily Telegraph |
| 17 | Venture inside and you would be wise to wear a respirator to filter off the stench , and clothing that will protect you from the steady rain of droppings and urine that falls from the ceiling . |
| 18 | Taking a tent obviously gives a lot more flexibility , freeing you from the near necessity of booking accommodation in advance . |
| 19 | of pressure on you from an awful lot of other sources , so do n't worry about it . |
| 20 | Moreover , ‘ They were all madly highly-sexed like the Starkadders ’ , she told an interviewer earlier in the decade , ‘ and I think a lot of the laughing at that kind of thing in Cold Comfort Farm comes from a ‘ distaste ’ … if you have it thrust on you from an early age , with divorces left , right and centre and people chasing each other round tables … well . ’ |
| 21 | The CTRL and ESC keys pressed together will take you from an open application to DOSShell . |
| 22 | Interestingly it seems very much the case that in socializing infants linguistically , in introducing them to words and utterances , we from the very beginning teach them to use talk in this self-dissociated , fanciful way . |
| 23 | 16th ( last in series ) , Life in the Balance : How removed are we from the natural world ? |
| 24 | My mother was reading to me from A Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia , and I can remember exactly where she had got to in the book when , thinking I looked feverish , she took my temperature and put me to bed . |
| 25 | He knows full well that we are not related , though he once waved to me from a passing train . |
| 26 | Then a communication reached me from a newly-formed organization called the British Council , which rio one , including some of its officials , seemed to know much about . |
| 27 | ‘ WAS IT ONE OF THEM IN-DEPTH things you have to really think about ? ’ asked the cabbie who drove me from A Hard Heart . |
| 28 | ‘ She telephoned me from a public call-box somewhere . |
| 29 | As my bus drives up to ease me from the pitiful world outside , Clary waves , a week hand emerging from his dark shadow huddled from the cold . |
| 30 | It must have been there all the time , sitting motionless and staring straight at me from the far edge of the level area of the Grounds , but I had n't noticed it at first . |