Example sentences of "to [pers pn] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All , like these picture perfect Labradors , going to new owners who believe their dream puppy came to them from a caring environment . |
| 2 | Instruction will be available to them from a top qualified instructor . |
| 3 | As the way is now open , with the agreement of the House , for us to join a single currency in just over five years , will my right hon. Friend spell out clearly to the House and to the people of this country what benefits will or may derive to them from a single currency ? |
| 4 | respecting the provisions of the Legislature on this point and the manner in which these provisions have been eluded , as well as to point out the pecuniary advantages [ the system of bounties which the abolitionists had themselves promoted ] which would accrue to them from a vigorous enforcement of the Abolition Laws . |
| 5 | A bird is born with an ability to fly , yet the mother bird will urge her offspring to take that first flight , calling to them from a nearby branch . |
| 6 | The Flemyngs would be away , no doubt , ‘ at a banquet in Perth ’ , and they were ; a butler spoke to them from an upper window and asked them would they kindly leave a message so they marked the house with dirt and rotten potatoes while the servants rushed to bar the shutters over the windows . |
| 7 | Stupid though it might appear , she went upstairs and spoke to them from an upper window . |
| 8 | The ‘ conversion ’ of the UK government has been briefly described earlier ; it is manifested in their July 1989 commitment to spend £10m. on climate change research in 1989/90 and the confident request to them from the Advisory Board for the Research Councils ( ABRC ) for an extra £11m. in 1990 and £13m. in the two succeeding years for additional environmental research . |
| 9 | Most degree courses have very flexible structures and allow students to include subjects of special interest to them from the large selection available in the University . |
| 10 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that some British companies have not received the compensation due to them from the Turkish authorities controlling northern Cyprus ? |
| 11 | Further funding will cover , in part at least , the shortfall between the amount allocated to them from the common fund and their total expenditure . |
| 12 | My mother was reading to me from A Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia , and I can remember exactly where she had got to in the book when , thinking I looked feverish , she took my temperature and put me to bed . |
| 13 | He knows full well that we are not related , though he once waved to me from a passing train . |
| 14 | All Leslie 's letters to me from the sealed camp at Fairford bore ( as well as the R.A.F. censor 's stamp ) undated postmarks . |
| 15 | ‘ But Ken was making it very clear to me from the very beginning that I was not going to get away with anything , ’ Pertwee told me . |
| 16 | I had seen him once before when he had waved to me from an upper window and I had waved back . |
| 17 | After we had talked , Philip read to me from an unpublished memoir which he had entitled ‘ The Two Burtons ’ . |
| 18 | Doyle 's attention was drawn by a youth , wearing suit and bow-tie , who called to him from an empty table . |
| 19 | Their abstract certitudes seemed far removed to him from the inherent contradictions in human nature . |
| 20 | He could not find Strawberry but after a time Cowslip came up to him from the other end of the hall . |
| 21 | Surely there could be no gain to him from the old lady 's death ? |
| 22 | He , too , suffered from an occasional enlightening vision which came to him from the dim past and which he must have suppressed at the time … |
| 23 | She vaguely heard Matilda 's angry voice , but it came to her from a great distance . |
| 24 | I spoke to her from a great distance . |
| 25 | When Waterford Wedgwood Canada 's Gail Lilly volunteered to help out in a major international athletics event , she never dreamed she would find a pen-pal who would write to her from the other side of the world . |
| 26 | For the next few days Ruth spent most of her waking hours with Anna , reading to her from the small collection of books Mrs Carson had brought on board , playing games , making up stories . |
| 27 | Travis had raised himself out of his despair to quip that she and his cousin both worked for the same firm , but the message that had come across to her from the dark steely look of Naylor Massingham was that that might be true now , but , since she had chosen not to heed his warning , one of them would not be working for the same firm for very much longer ! |
| 28 | Chair , if I can , if I can speak to it from a financial point of view , this is the scheme where we have been successful in bidding for the European Rural Development Fund grants . |
| 29 | Like other conversational programs , it uses this big database to fit some sort of ‘ logical tree ’ to the growing narrative , and respond to it from a programmed strategy . |
| 30 | Indeed , some estimates have suggested that if the Exchequer received all the tax due to it from the black economy , the basic rate of income tax might be cut by 10 per cent . |