Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the individualistic approach of modern Darwinism which looks at it from the point of view of the reproductive success of individual genes , is n't like the older group selectionistic thinking was , prejudiced in favour of any group . |
| 2 | The sleeve for the hemiplegic arm is gathered together , and the unaffected hand goes into it from the cuff , in order to draw the hemiplegic hand into the sleeve up to the wrist . |
| 3 | What I 'd really like , of course , is not to have to bother with lugging kilo bags of sugar and tins of weedkiller back from the town to stuff into electrical-conduit piping which Jamie the dwarf gets for me from the building contractor 's where he works in Porteneil . |
| 4 | When I 'm in the kitchen she calls to me from the sitting room , where she is sewing . |
| 5 | And that is the erm absence of understanding it seems to us from the County Planning Department of the way the actual market works , and of the need for a local authority area erm in seeking to obtain employment for its people , the need for that area to be able to offer a variety of er employment land both in quality , size and location . |
| 6 | The fly , which has settled on my forehead and reads to me from the Sixth Book of the Aeneid , is the same fly which buzzes round the head of Virgil in Mantua . |
| 7 | I know how they 're supposed to work , I know all about the importance attached to establishing a rapport and initiating trust and building confidence and all that shit ( and I 'm almost flattered they have n't done the old good-cop bad-cop routine , though maybe they just do n't do that at all any more because everybody knows about it from the TV ) , but I really do feel something for McDunn : he 's like my lifeline back to reality , my ray of sanity in the nightmare . |
| 8 | It comes to us from the age which gave us the Great Charter , and founded the House of Commons . |
| 9 | Evidence of such allowances comes to us from the time of Augustus Caesar . |
| 10 | This programme comes to you from the University of Sussex . |
| 11 | EMMA yells to him from the bedroom . |
| 12 | Certainly my own identikit picture of the classic nasty old git a Tory faces is about 68 , wears a string vest and the trousers of an old suit , bears remnants of a tattoo on one shoulder and comes at you from the door of a council house with an unkempt garden in Mansfield , waving a stick and blaspheming mightily . |