Example sentences of "[vb infin] from [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All AE 's immediately turned to stare at one of their number a poker-faced young man , who described any client who would n't buy from him as a " cunt " even scribbling comments to that effect on the client record cards . |
| 2 | Historic Scotland has recently spelt out the service standards customers can expect from it with the publication of a new charter leaflet . |
| 3 | But Le Page and Tabouret-Keller 's hypothesis is not primarily concerned with interaction between an individual speaker and an interlocutor , although this might follow from it as a special case . |
| 4 | You 'll not hear from them about the confusion methods used to present figures on profits or unemployment . |
| 5 | Polybius again went a step further by passing over in silence the Roman Bacchanalia which chronologically and typologically can hardly be separated from the new popularity of Dionysus in Egypt about 210 B.C. He was also silent about the religious crisis in Rome during the second Punic War : we do not hear from him about the human sacrifices of that time . |
| 6 | I wo n't hear from her until the day after tomorrow , she told herself . |
| 7 | ‘ And do n't worry if you do n't hear from me for a few days . |
| 8 | The mail will probably take a couple of days longer to reach you from Sian , & no doubt we 'll be very busy when we get there , so forgive me if you do n't hear from me for a little while . |
| 9 | If I cry , the Monster cries — more piteously , longer , louder — not because it is sad , of course not , never out of sorrow or pity , no , merely because Jimbo has cried and thereby been noticed , for his self These scraps of attention the Monster would take from me to the last smile , the last nod , the last little pat on the head . |
| 10 | If you can allow your child or your teenager to experience these consequences ( short of any which might cause them serious pain or hurt ) , he or she will learn from them without the addition of sermons , scolding or smackings . |
| 11 | Before turning to that geographical variability , however , and what we can learn from it about the nature of a place , a brief outline of the strike 's context is provided . |
| 12 | Frederica could not see Alexander at all : indeed she had noted he was not there : she stared around and around now at colourless air and sand as though he might rise from them like a mirage . |