Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] from [pos pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight , as a cold wintry blizzard rages outside , our hearts are warm with the satisfaction of the continuing public service which you have all enjoyed from your own station CHAB , and which the C.B.C . |
| 2 | Once again I can only speak from my own experience of what my patients have told me . |
| 3 | And a Kent farm labourer 's daughter recalled with special intimacy her grandmother who lived into her nineties , only moving from her own cottage in her last five years . |
| 4 | He still managed to get up the stairs in the pavilion to help launch Berkshire 's new sponsorship , but then perhaps he thought that the name of the sponsors — the Head Partnership — was far enough removed from his own problems to be of no concern . |
| 5 | Of course I can only say from my own experience . |
| 6 | On the left side the leaf rose a little , gently swaying from its own tensions , for there was now no breath of wind . |
| 7 | ‘ So I 've already gathered from your own choice of decorating gear , ’ he murmured , once again letting his eyes roam freely over the leotard and leggings clinging lovingly to her like a second skin . |
| 8 | From 1823 he produced a series of plates illustrating his discoveries , largely engraved from his own drawings , entitled The Durobrivae of Antoninus . |
| 9 | Yet retrospectively he envied the Mallory children their hardships — the shared beds , the shoes that pinched , the heaps of washing , the inconvenience of too many babies in too short a time , the lack of privacy , the meagre pocket-money , the quarrels and tears , because with these things went other things infinitely precious , laughter and love , tenderness and the joy of living , things signally missing from his own childhood . |
| 10 | Even when there are specialist historians , producing approximations to truth which their colleagues test and scrutinize to professional standards , people make home brews from their own lives and knowledge and offer them to their successors . |
| 11 | Theda asked in quick alarm , at once diverted from her own concerns . |
| 12 | He added that he now felt more detached from his former girlfriend , and that he was already beginning to regard their relationship as belonging to the past . |
| 13 | Totally isolated from our own culture for long periods , we became vulnerable to forgotten times and tribes re-awakening within us . |
| 14 | If this was indeed the case , why were those children ever removed from their own home at all ? |
| 15 | Specimen contracts are available from the Institute of Purchasing and Supply and you can get further tips from your own suppliers ' contracts or those of your competitors . |
| 16 | Her piercing household face swam across his eyeline , even more changed from its former self than now , and hermetic in its enthusiasm for nursery objects properly researched by child psychiatrists to be fit for the middle-class children who would lose them without a pang . |
| 17 | Thus at Inkberrow Richard Russell 's ‘ lease by year ’ is valued at £1. 3s. 8d. , and Henry Woodwar 's ‘ lease for years ’ at £1 — clearly distinguished from his own property , which was valued separately at £1. 10s . |
| 18 | One of the few things he could instantly recall from his own brief marriage was his wife 's grilling a kipper on a gridiron over the fire . |
| 19 | People who will say to other people I know Jesus I know that he loves us , I know that he forgives us , I know that he is risen from the dead , and that the good news is that we will also rise from our own deaths . |
| 20 | There is nothing discreditable in a bailiff appropriating to his lord 's use his own products , e.g. to brew from his own barley , to make cloth and linen from his own wool and flax , feed his horses from his own produce . |
| 21 | Directors chipped in with their ideas of picking a team , and niggled when , umpteen people having poked their noses and opinions in , a team emerged and inevitably differed from their several choices . ’ |
| 22 | Both Soviet and American leaders , by the late 1980s , had a common interest in a negotiated end to the Iran-Iraq war and in an international agreement guaranteeing freedom of movement in the Persian Gulf , but neither could necessarily manipulate events in the region to its advantage and neither , perhaps , quite understood the nature of a popular movement so far removed from its own cultural assumptions . |
| 23 | Some readers may get no further than the title of this book suggesting , as it seems to , something austere , authoritarian , Catholic and far removed from their own experience ! |
| 24 | He had guessed that this place was a palace to her , and she wondered suddenly if she was a complete fool even to consider getting mixed up in his world , when it was so far removed from her own . |
| 25 | To understand the primitive way of life , or the way of life of a society far removed from our own , it is necessary for us to extend our way of life into the orbit of the form of life of that society , rather than bring the form of life of that society into the orbit of our own . |
| 26 | Under this new dispensation things foreign and far removed from our own polluted urban world acquire all exotic piquancy , an exciting glamour , which causes them to be approached with a mixture of reverence and hope . |
| 27 | These examples of animal senses are relatively easy for us to comprehend as they are not too far removed from our own experience . |
| 28 | There seemed little else that he could do , but it was so far removed from his own branch of medicine , so alien to anything he could have foreseen happening to Celia . |
| 29 | But he is old , deeply unpopular , and increasingly isolated from his own party . |
| 30 | As a broad generalization there is much truth in this , and both groups can usefully remember from their own education how sometimes learning is " taught " and at other times " caught " . |