Example sentences of "from a friend " in BNC.
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| 1 | DAVID FEHERTY played what he considered to be the best golf of his life in the BMW tournament in Munich yesterday , thanks largely to a tip from a friend . |
| 2 | We were woken a few minutes before one o'clock in the morning by a phone call from a friend who told us that the insistent thudding we could hear was American artillery fire . |
| 3 | A reporter in New York learns from a friend , a gynaecologist , that after a certain date she has no more patients on her books ; others in her profession are in the same boat . |
| 4 | ‘ We inherited him from a friend of my mother . |
| 5 | ‘ We inherited him from a friend of my mother . |
| 6 | The second I did n't hear about for four days and even then not from a friend but from the free paper which used to be given away in the bars once a week those days . |
| 7 | His interest in them , foreshadowed by the pipe-cleaner dancers on their cardboard stages , was provoked by the gift of a puppet theatre from a friend of his father 's . |
| 8 | Someone came to tell her that her twelve-year-old son Paul had been knocked down by a car on the way home from a friend 's house and taken to the local hospital . |
| 9 | The same can be said of receiving intuitive aromatherapy massage from a friend . |
| 10 | Although it might be very easy to steal from a friend or colleague and not get caught most people would feel this to be ‘ wrong ’ , yet such feelings may not exert such a strong influence over decisions as to whether to steal from a larger and less personal victim . |
| 11 | When a message came from a friend in Prague that their mother had disappeared , Miss Harder did everything she could to console them and they became very close . |
| 12 | He had been caught stealing from a friend and had reacted ‘ hysterically , to the inevitable reprimand . |
| 13 | It was not a question Dalgliesh would have expected , even from a friend , and Rickards was not a friend . |
| 14 | But you chose to switch on the news that day , or to hear it from a friend ; and you chose to have certain thoughts in response to that news . |
| 15 | ‘ I ( named ) , the undersigned , swear on oath that I collected two yellow bags containing waste material from a friend 's house at Grange , Co . |
| 16 | He was agreeably surprised to find one from a friend who had joined the Mounties a couple of years previously . |
| 17 | PENSIONER Pearl Reed , 63 , got a letter at her home in Cambridge from a friend three miles away — 15 minutes after it was postmarked . |
| 18 | Hagiography from a friend |
| 19 | There was nothing unusual there — a few receipts , a letter from a friend . |
| 20 | One of the most important concerns the ending , which was to have been based on an Old Believer melody Mussorgsky had taken down from a friend . |
| 21 | Indeed , Clara knew from first hand experience the moral truth of the story told in The Golden Windows about the house with the golden windows , for she had once admired from a friend 's house the whole dazzling , distant , smoky lay-out of her own hillside . |
| 22 | His shoes are one size too big , cast-offs from a friend . |
| 23 | If you are buying from a friend it may be worth obtaining an independent assessment in order to avoid the risk of either side feeling that they may have been unfairly treated . |
| 24 | Minton bought it from a friend , the painter David Bevan , whose wife had recently committed suicide , and this fact , so Minton told George Barker , had influenced his decision to acquire it . |
| 25 | Imagine old George getting a phone call from a friend . |
| 26 | He 'd bought the cars from a friend in Bolton |
| 27 | He had discharged himself on May 30 , borrowed some money from a friend and headed off to East Anglia . |
| 28 | If you are buying from a friend , rather than a shop , then try to move them when the female is almost ripe to spawn , since if you can get them breeding again quickly in your tank this will help them to settle without too much aggro . |
| 29 | Q. Can you give me any information on Britain 's common toad as I am interested in raising some tadpoles — presently spawn — from a friend 's pond with a view to setting up some kind of vivarium for housing a mature toad . |
| 30 | There was evidence in the form of a letter from a friend or neighbour and of another witness , a Miss Lobo , who spoke of the mother 's difficulties at this stage . |