Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] from [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shelley had n't seen Miguel or heard from him since their meeting at Casa Madrid . |
| 2 | I wondered if you might have seen either of them or heard from them over the past few days . ’ |
| 3 | In practice variations so caused are few : in every land the total number of list seats nearly always turns out to be either the same as the total number of constituency seats or to differ from it by only one or two . |
| 4 | Third , the motorist did NOT ( contrry to The Scotsman 's report ) spend any time looking for a parking space or walking from it to his destination . |
| 5 | Horses ' emotions can rapidly escalate or change from one to another . |
| 6 | Danielle refused to eat with other patients , or drink from anything but her own cup . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) A person can not steal land , or things forming part of land and severed from it by him or by his directions , except in the following cases , that is to say — ( a ) when he is a trustee or personal representative , or is authorised by power of attorney , or as liquidator of a company , or otherwise , to sell or dispose of land belonging to another , and he appropriates the land or anything forming part of it by dealing with it in breach of the confidence reposed in him ; or ( b ) when he is not in possession of the land and appropriates anything forming part of the land by severing it or causing it to be severed , or after it has been severed ; or ( c ) when , being in possession of the land under a tenancy , he appropriates the whole or part of any fixture or structure let to be used with the land . |
| 8 | By s.4(2) : A person can not steal land , or things forming part of land and severed from it by him or by his direction , except … |
| 9 | A generation ago these two were roughtly equally important , and walking from one to another was acceptable . |
| 10 | In a classroom it can give you the students ' view of the teacher , it can give you the teacher 's view of the students or it can be an observer which sits at the side of the class and looks from one to the other . |
| 11 | The village of Tickton in East Yorkshire is situated on the Beverley to Bridlington road about two and a half miles north-east of Beverley and separated from it by the river Hull . |
| 12 | Other causes of distortion include our reliance on our own pet theory of personality ( ‘ Its worked well so far ’ ) , selective perception ( ‘ I know what I want to hear ; do n't confuse me with the facts ’ ) , the so-called halo effect — forming opinions on one piece of information and generalizing from it to other pieces of information ( e.g. ‘ She was brilliant in the Geneva post ; she 'll be brilliant wherever we send her ’ ) , or its opposite , the horns effect ( ‘ He was hopeless in Paris . |
| 13 | Rachel took a deep breath and glanced from one to the other then over her shoulder at the closed door of her sister 's ground-floor bedroom . |
| 14 | He spread it out , and glanced from it to the screen . |
| 15 | In that incomparable verse Racine surely articulates the classical and terrible conception that underlies also Virgil 's treatment of Dido : sexual passion , the erotic , understood as one undifferentiated energy running wild , fastening itself seemingly at random on this person or that one , and switching from one to another in a way that discredits all human vows of constancy . |
| 16 | They are constitutionally independent of the political executive and protected from it by security of tenure and other guarantees . |
| 17 | Betty Felton now put her head back and looked from one to the other of her four sons and she said , ‘ Aye , there 's a confectioner 's an' baccy shop in that street . |
| 18 | Denis hesitated and looked from one to the other , then he put the paten under Noreen 's chin . |
| 19 | I could therefore possess myself of my nephew by force if — ’ he paused for full effect and looked from one to another of the councillors ‘ — if , as Lord High Protector , I elected so to do . ’ |
| 20 | Jack cleared his throat and looked from one to the other . |
| 21 | I may be wrong , but it is on this doubtful premise that we take the ferry and alight from it in Skye . |
| 22 | Donald felt the pressure from her and stared from one to the other , letting them feel his defiance and distaste . |
| 23 | Why should I assume that in combining imperatives with propositions about other persons I can afford to ignore , while taking for granted the analogizing on which the mere use of a common name depends , the operations of assimilating to and differentiating from myself without which the propositions would not even have their full meaning ? |
| 24 | The awareness of God which is fragmentarily and partially there in all men was fully and perfectly formed in Jesus , and spreads from him to those who believe in him . |
| 25 | Organising big gigs like Loch Lomond and Murrayfield would add more worries to the existing day to day running of a band , but Marlene takes it all in her stride and escapes from it by going to Skye where she ‘ gets away from the phones ! ’ |
| 26 | A half-empty bottle of red wine stood on the telephone table and he picked it up and drank from it with his left hand as he lifted the receiver with his right . |
| 27 | His son , Guillaume de Sescas , esquire ( douzet ) recognized that he was a liegeman and military tenant of Albret in July 1309 , holding land and tithes from him in the Bazadais , and owing him service , counsel and loyalty in perpetuity . |
| 28 | The President 's cabin lay three miles into the reserve , four miles to the north and a good eight hundred feet above the lodge , and divided from it by a small tributary of the Makaa so Trent could expect no help there even if the owner was in residence . |
| 29 | Agreements were also signed on Kaliningrad ( administratively part of Russia but separated from it by Lithuanian territory ) , and on the rights of each population in the other republic . |
| 30 | He was fascinated to discover that the Galapagos animals bore a general resemblance to those he had seen on the mainland , but differed from them in detail . |