Example sentences of "[pers pn] from the [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In brief , the rules are that departed colleagues or employees may compete against you from the day they go , directly or indirectly , locally or nationally , or as they see fit . |
| 2 | Although ACET , like any charity , does not have the power to release you from the agreement it is likely to be sympathetic . |
| 3 | ‘ I hope to God , ’ he quavered , ‘ somethin' happens that will divert you from the path you have chosen . |
| 4 | I knew that I 'd loved you from the moment we first met and I 'd never stopped . ’ |
| 5 | I have wanted you from the moment I saw you , wet and half-naked , on the deck of my motor-launch that night . |
| 6 | ‘ And I loved you from the moment I walked into the factory , even if you did have a false impression of me . |
| 7 | Because quite often erm we 've our birthday presents have n't we from the stuff we see in the sale after , the Christmas stuff for the girls . |
| 8 | I had reached the letter " C " and as the word " Castration " looked up at me from the page I was jerked back to Rory . |
| 9 | ‘ And you were fighting me from the moment we met again . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You mean you wanted me from the moment you saw me ? ’ |
| 11 | He should have sent the child to me from the moment she could feed herself , Roirbak thought , sure Ari had been contaminated and spoiled by the life she 'd led at Taler 's Bump . |
| 12 | As one person put it , ‘ The only ones who knew me from the time I was born have gone , and it 's almost as if that period in my life is less real now that there is no one left alive who shared it with me . ’ |
| 13 | And then they started recruiting or or or promoting them from the ranks you know . |
| 14 | Any decision on taxation has to be taken by the member states unanimously and there now seems little hope that the Commission can deflect them from the course they set out upon yesterday . |
| 15 | We have encoded and used versions of them from the past we study . |
| 16 | Fortunately for the young refugees , there was much to divert them from the risk they were taking . |
| 17 | They and others who employ what I term the ‘ autonomous ’ model of literacy appear , then , to believe that this model insulates them from the arguments I have been discussing . |
| 18 | I think there was a law passed in Scotland … that a certain class should educate its children , its boys , in England , to alienate them from the people they were going to come back and rule over . |
| 19 | The researchers meet the guests first , and generally look after them from the time they arrive to the time they leave . |
| 20 | At times he would claim that his father had been lashed in front of the town and put in the stocks for poaching a salmon , and told to pray for the soul of Lord I — whose goodness had saved him from the hanging he deserved . |
| 21 | Curiously , Branson did not dislike McLaren — Malcolm 's transparently roguish charm made him hard to dislike — but he had never trusted him from the day they had first shaken hands in Leslie Hill 's office and McLaren had failed to arrive at the Virgin offices ; failed to keep his promise . |
| 22 | As Mrs Burrows took him from the hall she said to Eva " You 'd better finish the service " . |
| 23 | He had a picture of her sitting permanently on the edge of a table at Dubal 's swinging one leg and looking out at him from the group she was with . |
| 24 | Pip is initially horrified and recoils from the man but gradually comes to understand , and respond to , Magwitch 's love for him , and tries , with Herbert 's assistance , to smuggle the ex-convict abroad again to save him from the death-sentence he would face as an illegally returned transported criminal . |
| 25 | It was hardly fair , was it , to fire one question after another at him from the moment she got into his car at Mariánské Láznë until she got out again in Prague ? |
| 26 | The frontier post spotted him from the photos we rushed to the western frontier . |
| 27 | He said it lightly but as she followed him from the staff-room she was aware that her heart had begun to beat very fast . |
| 28 | When it came to electing a successor to the deposed Archbishop Fitzherbert at Richmond ( North Riding ) on 24 July 1147 , Bishop William opted for Henry Murdac [ q.v. ] , favourite of the Yorkshire reformers , against King Stephen 's candidate ; presumably it was Murdac who released him from the suspension he incurred for failing to attend the Council of Reims in March 1148 . |
| 29 | The entire world shrank to the mere fifteen feet separating her from the man she had thought never to see again . |
| 30 | The nursing home to which her husband has her committed after her eccentricity has become dangerous , and from which she and the other residents are eventually ejected to be cared for by an amorphous ‘ community ’ , might have been lying in wait for her from the day she was born . |