Example sentences of "from [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , however , like Bilinda from My Bloody Valentine you 're singing tender entreaties to your partner or questioning the nature of love , then you 're saying something universal and good . |
| 2 | He is very wealthy and everyone looks up to him but as for me I could understand from my limited Italian he is very sad because one of his ships is very late in arriving in port and is feared lost . |
| 3 | In his first letter from there he makes a significant little admission to Theo , and encloses a sketch : ‘ I should like to begin making hasty sketches of some of the many things I meet … but as it would probably keep me from my real work it is better not to start . ’ |
| 4 | Indeed erm I can say this now er that at that time , unknown to the top management of I was buying large quantities of leather from my old firm it into the town , right past the front door of my old offices which were now the hea the local headquarters of our and selling them , literally , within sight of the building that used to be the place where I operated from on their behalf . |
| 5 | They are given in alphabetical order , and from my own experience I know them to be absolutely reliable . |
| 6 | From my own collection I cherish a small bill presented by the artist George Cruikshank ( 1792–1878 ) in the form of a tiny letter which , when folded , measures only about 1 ½ ins. by 2ins. and is marked ‘ wait ’ on the outside . |
| 7 | I got evicted from my last place I was at . |
| 8 | With the patience and advice from my local vet we set up a recovery programme . |
| 9 | As they listened and watched the news from their former homeland it has been distressing for the five native speakers and difficult to maintain their professional distance from events . |
| 10 | From their judicious distance they watched in silence , with detached interest . |
| 11 | We now are setting into motion a new system , whereby the PAs to the Head of Groups/Sectors keep copies of the Christian Aid self-certificate form and should ensure that as soon as a member of staff returns from their sick leave they fill it in . |
| 12 | When parents exclude children from their own grief it can make the child feel that the awful event that has taken place is a punishment for which they are in part responsible . |
| 13 | From their own number they chose Bel Shanaar , Prince of Tiranoc , an Elf who had distinguished himself in the war and yet was seen as a voice of peace and reason . |
| 14 | From their lowly status they were still able to perceive who was who in the Rowdies hierarchy and which subunits were worth making a try for . |
| 15 | From her encouraging smile I realised she had suggested me for something . |
| 16 | Without moving his eyes away from her dark head he oscillated between the image of the pure lady accepting the spoon , or at least the rose , and the idea of her calling out in a thrashing orgasm of female pleasure as he spurted and spurted in ecstatic triumph on top of her . |
| 17 | With the penknife from her dressing-gown pocket she sawed the piece of chicken into two portions and handed one to Thérèse . |
| 18 | From her own school she enlisted five teachers she could ill afford and ten senior boys and girls . |
| 19 | From her own questioning she had made sure that Mr Miller bought only the best puppies from reliable breeders and , in turn , she had told him of her own circumstances . |
| 20 | Well I , I met him actually through er I was nursing erm a baby , she was only three months old and she 'd had , she 'd caught , from her older sister she 'd caught whooping cough . |
| 21 | When Ruth eventually stirred from her languid torpor it was dark and hot . |
| 22 | From its familiar title it indicates something like a ‘ school ’ , centred on the ideas of one writer , and this is not unreasonable , since in the 1790s there were conscious ‘ Godwinians ’ and Godwin 's best known work , Political Justice , was widely and directly influential . |
| 23 | From its first meeting it was also identified with the anti-slavery movement and this meant that it did not establish itself in America , where many religious leaders were wary of too close an identification with such a divisive issue . |
| 24 | From its leafy canopy he could see right over the gardens and the wilderness of the lower grounds to the rows of cobbled streets on the far side of the beck wall . |
| 25 | Static electricity — that was the only explanation — although from his bland expression he had felt no similar spark on contact . |
| 26 | From his new station he could see the three lakes — Loweswater , Crummock Water and Buttermere — lined up in the valley like three barges ready to be towed down to the shore ; he could see the bivouac huts of some woodmen and he spotted more than one flock coming down from the high pastures — but Mary chided him . |
| 27 | Something about the feel of his lips tugging at her nipples began to excite Sally and though she still felt nothing but discomfort from his probing finger she relaxed a little , leaning her head back into the corner provided by the bench seat and the window . |
| 28 | From his slight paunch he also looked as though he enjoyed his own cuisine . |
| 29 | The room fell silent , and from his great height he gazed over the room with that familiar expression he put on when being headmasterly — an expression that was at once dyspeptic yet predatory ( for were they not , after all , his prey ? ) . |
| 30 | From his excited account I was able to tell him that that was the exact area in which I had , on my last visit , planted a hundred daffodil bulbs . |