Example sentences of "to [pers pn] from the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as they had made their way back , Bigwig came across to them from the bushes at the edge of the path . |
| 2 | But for many stall-fed cattle and pigs the crops are brought to them from the fields . |
| 3 | For instance , a letter to me from the Highways Department mentions a Forrest Road — Lothian St. cycletrack , which it says has had preliminary approval from the Transportation Committee and was ‘ shortly to be forwarded to the Department 's design and construction staff for detailing the works ’ . |
| 4 | Erm what , what was the feeling that came over to you from the tenants ' group at the time ? |
| 5 | British rail tell us that the Scotland to Brighton train which is due to call at Oxford at 5.35 is running 2 hours late this evening , but I have nothing to report to you from the buses . |
| 6 | British Rail tell us that the Banbury to Paddington train , which was due to arrive at Oxford at three minutes past seven , has been cancelled this evening , but I 've nothing disadvantageous to report to you from the buses . |
| 7 | But I 've no problems to report to you from the buses . |
| 8 | Edmund arrives to find Emily 's cat has got at the lobsters and broken her beautiful china ; and in a moment of quiet at the end of his visit a boring neighbour ( well known to him from the letters ) makes her way in — and alas , like most bores who are funny in letters , she is not so in real life . |
| 9 | A French attack was mounted on the duchy of Aquitaine , but the day was saved by the able lieutenancy exercised there by Richard of Cornwall , and by large loans to him from the cities of Bordeaux and Bayonne . |
| 10 | He was only jolted out of his misery when he approached the front door leading to his much-maligned flat and , as he struggled to pull his keys out of his right pocket with his left hand , a voice spoke to him from the shadows of the front porch . |
| 11 | He tries to guess what you say to him from the vowels . |
| 12 | It was planned as a pilgrimage church with a large crypt for the relics and with stairways leading to it from the aisles . |
| 13 | But it is a feudalism where inequalities and poverty have been intensified by British colonialism and which has in the last thirty-seven years since independence been in a state of flux caused by the varying stages of capitalism which reach out to it from the towns and cities of the Indian sub-continent . |
| 14 | It was provided with a direct link to the London and North-Western 's Camden Station and so animals were driven direct to it from the trains . |
| 15 | There seems little doubt that Trow Gill once brought down a stream , this entering as a waterfall at the gap now occupied by boulders , and this theory is confirmed by the dry channel coming directly down to it from the heights above . |