Example sentences of "[pers pn] from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 As to the other , I heard about you from the other side as well , did n't I ?
2 Looking at you from the other side of the desk I might feel you have misdiagnosed yourself .
3 You know I 've loved you from the very beginning and I 'll go on loving you .
4 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 .
5 I 'll quote you from the Daily Telegraph
6 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 .
7 Taking a tent obviously gives a lot more flexibility , freeing you from the near necessity of booking accommodation in advance .
8 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 .
9 16th ( last in series ) , Life in the Balance : How removed are we from the natural world ?
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 He then heard my earnest indefatigable prayers and by a train of events the most impossible and unexpected released me from the cruel bondage in which the enemy of my soul had bound me .
13 It was all to save me from the Fiery Pit .
14 Instead of being cosily tucked up in her bunk near the bar , she surprisingly came walking towards me from the sleeping car forward of Filmer 's , her diamonds lighting small bright fires with every step .
15 No , what I am looking at are the first direct signals to reach me from the dark constellation of Serafin .
16 I could tell that my father was looking at me from the other end of the table , swilling his juice round in his glass and staring at my head as I bent over my plate .
17 I love daytime television so when I saw Richard and Judy staring at me from the other channel I was quite pleased .
18 I could see I could see Li er Charlie and Pete looking at me from the other side of the room , Charlie smiled and I just did I just went like that , you know ?
19 All Leslie 's letters to me from the sealed camp at Fairford bore ( as well as the R.A.F. censor 's stamp ) undated postmarks .
20 There she is , in the other photograph , guileless and fervent , leaning forward across her desk , philosophizing away at me from the broad steppe of her Slavic soul .
21 I was thinking it would be nice to spend some time travelling with someone else , to share the strain but , as we entered the darkness which had me constantly glancing up to check the shadow of my bag , my only companion was the bearded , dark-eyed twin who stared back at me from the occluded window .
22 Lindsay Kemp : ‘ David Bowie struck me from the very beginning as being very versatile and very ‘ up-front ’ and not in the least bit naîve .
23 This time she started to interrogate me from the very beginning .
24 ‘ But Ken was making it very clear to me from the very beginning that I was not going to get away with anything , ’ Pertwee told me .
25 And , ’ he went on before she could interrupt , ‘ you ca n't deny you were all over me from the very beginning .
26 ( ‘ Your good influence and help has sometimes draw me from the enwrapping pleasure of scenes which before held me alone with them . ' )
27 Your good influence and help has sometimes drawn me from the enwrapping pleasure of scenes which before held me alone with them …
28 The first I knew about it was a massive gaoler dragging me from the Common side up to the turnkey 's lodge .
29 They remembered me from the previous year too .
30 As I did so I became aware of a youngish man with long hair looking at me from the pavemented walk on the Hammersmith side of the river .
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