Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mo chattered at him from Emmie 's shoulder . |
| 2 | He 'ate the English , but when he gets to know Perdita , ’ Alejandro smiled at her from under the peak of his cap , ‘ he will forgeeve . ’ |
| 3 | He glanced in to find Nadine Cunningham smiling at him from the driver 's seat . |
| 4 | Mrs Billy Bond writes to us from Forest Row , East Sussex to say that most knitting machine shops are run by friendly and helpful people but Knitmates is outstanding . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | Standing looking up at the east front , he knew that the Alpheus lay to the south , on his left , and the Cladeus flowed into it from his right . |
| 7 | Angharad looked at her from under thick lashes . |
| 8 | ’ Catesby stared at us from red-rimmed eyes . |
| 9 | Hrun stared at him from under bushy eyebrows . |
| 10 | Doone looked at me from under his eyelids . |
| 11 | Eva smiled at me from the driver 's seat . |
| 12 | Queen Margaret and Catesby glowered at us from the head of the table . |
| 13 | Royston Marley comes to us from Ross Chicken Ltd . |
| 14 | Fernando turned to her from the fridge where he was taking out a bottle of wine . |
| 15 | A succession of heavy trucks rumbled down Amwell Street as Graham turned onto it from Rosebery Avenue ; they were big grey lorries , stone or chippings carriers with great corrugated sides and a plume of dust trailing after them in the near-still air , Graham was heading slightly uphill now , and slowed his pace accordingly . |
| 16 | After we had talked , Philip read to me from an unpublished memoir which he had entitled ‘ The Two Burtons ’ . |
| 17 | For example , the china which Queen Adelaide brought with her from Britain still exists more or less in its entirety in one Portuguese household in Funchal . |
| 18 | " Clearly , your son is guilty of trespass , and we should be within our rights to hand him over to the Justices , " Sir Gregory said , standing very straight-backed by the table , while Harry glowered at him from the hearth . |
| 19 | I love daytime television so when I saw Richard and Judy staring at me from the other channel I was quite pleased . |
| 20 | McAllister looked at him from under the long dark eyelashes which had won his heart from the very first moment when he had seen them , on his sofa , adorning the unconscious girl he had carried in from the street . |
| 21 | Carradine looked at me from behind it , then sank back again . |
| 22 | He takes a piece of paper from his pocket , a letter from Claudia smuggled to him from the Drancy camp in Paris . |
| 23 | Look Joe — ’ Len leaned towards him from where he was sitting on the side of his bed and , lowering his voice , he said , ‘ I do n't want to probe , and I know I 've said this before , but I … |
| 24 | Matt looked at her from beneath grey , shaggy brows . |
| 25 | To the French , Bonington brought with him from England the genius of the British school of watercolour painting , working in oils very much in the way he approached watercolours . |
| 26 | Bellybutton , painting his delicate silver star , laughed up at the twins with his discoloured teeth , while McIllvanney leered at them from his office window . |
| 27 | He thought about the way that Overdene looked at him from his glass cubbyhole whenever Henry was twenty minutes late from lunch . |
| 28 | Norma Jones wrote to us from her home in Braintree . |
| 29 | His name was called , and he turned his head and saw Lavinia waving at him from the porch . |
| 30 | The occasional sly lift is one thing but I suspect Irish referee Stephen Hilditch will become suspicious when he sees Adolf Malan waving at him from upon high while he waits for the throw . |