Example sentences of "from [pron] [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's also a general view in the community that community care itself is not necessarily really working very well , there 's some fears about it , some uncertainties and a member did mention , it may have been Jim you know or somebody mentioned about the seven hours domiciliary , from my experience as a councillor I am not sure that simply because that figure exists that that means that that is satisfying the need of those people and in any case the sort of people who need to go into residential care , who can no longer be maintained in their home , with whatever help we give them or with whatever help their family have to give them they 're not necessarily the sort of people who we 're talking about need to go in a home . |
| 2 | I even got a reprimand from my creep of a Minister . |
| 3 | I caught nothing , but lost my favourite fishing hat , whisked from my head during a great wind that made casting almost impossible . |
| 4 | Order dropped from my memory as a sticky substance melted in the sun might drop from a table and spread on the floor . |
| 5 | ‘ Then ’ in 1960–3 , eighteen years ago ; and in the meantime , apart from summarising my reflections and discoveries before they passed from my memory in a slim volume entitled Medicine and politics , I have done what most ex-ministers do when they have a left most departments — given the subject a wide berth . |
| 6 | Three or four times they varied the system to pull me from my palliasse at a dead hour of the morning-about three-thirty or four a.m . |
| 7 | ‘ I have n't heard from my son for a couple of weeks . ’ |
| 8 | The players I think are worth considering from my time as a Leeds supporter are |
| 9 | He 'd planned this summit carefully , and now the Zen of the entire thing had gone crazy , because just as Dad opened his mouth to start talking blood had started to drip into my lap from my nose as a result of Charlie chucking me into his drum-kit . |
| 10 | The letter with my name in English on the envelope , a Moroccan stamp , and a list of requests from my family for a white bridal veil to go with my sister 's wedding dress , surgical stockings for my brother and a china dish for my mother . |
| 11 | I am hot and listless ; I wear sweats and my hair is pulled from my face with a rubber band . |
| 12 | I was roused from my room with a call from the Cambridge police , Stewart had been arrested for disorderly conduct and was demanding that his skipper should come down and bail him out . |
| 13 | ‘ A Momentary Lapse Of Reason ’ was their first experiment together , a back-to-basics show of rock strength that borrowed from their past in a noble effort to face the future head on . |
| 14 | The political power which some women have exercised sometimes and in some places in the past and other societies has derived from their position in a familial or kinship group . |
| 15 | The juniors ' teamwork suffered from their lack of a genuine middleman . |
| 16 | One can find examples of paper that has become so brittle that pages break away from their binding at a touch , and if anyone tries to handle the pages pieces break off . |
| 17 | The couple were mown down yards from their home by a car driven by 47-year-old Jill Gunns , who is believed to have had a row with her boy-friend . |
| 18 | And yesterday they said they were still optimistic that some good would come from their campaign including a change in the law . |
| 19 | Some 300 armed white farmers associated with the neo-fascist Afrikaner Resistance Movement led by Eugene Terreblanche were fired on by police protecting black squatters from their attack at a settlement near Ventersdorp , 120 km west of Johannesburg , on May 11 . |
| 20 | The DIA 's interest in them sprang from their association with a Chinese arms dealer named David King , also known as David Loo Choy , who represented the People 's Republic of China and had played a part in the North network 's illegal supply of arms to the Nicaraguan Contras in association with Monzer al-Kassar . |
| 21 | We walked up a narrow street from their dugout past a doorway whose lintel was matted with grass , the entrance to the old film company offices to which the 12-year-old gunboy had taken us less than two months before . |
| 22 | The above is an exact quote from their letter to a national newspaper and I find it very interesting , as indeed will those involved in the case . |
| 23 | The flowers give double pleasure , both from their particular meaning to the recipient and also from their beauty as a pressed flower picture . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , quite apart from their value as a temporary measure to kick-start a move to overcome corporate cultural stereotypes , it was argued convincingly that at an operational level they worked as a performance standard on managers , making them work harder to find , encourage and develop female high-fliers . |
| 25 | This project seeks to establish a baseline from which evolution of a truly European political system can be tracked over the coming centuries of political development . |
| 26 | She had lived in this flat for two years now , working as a secretary in the City , recovering from her life as a war victim , wanting only peace and freedom from her jealous , possessive father and her jealous , possessive uncle . |
| 27 | As midnight chimed from her sliver of a wall-clock she rose and proposed a toast . |
| 28 | Miranda , from her advantage of a month in the city , struggled to interpret for her young aunt . |
| 29 | From her work as a professional painter and teacher she passes on the many tips , secrets and techniques that she has learned over the years and shows how gardens , with their immense variety and colour , can provide the artist with endless ideas . |
| 30 | Among the nominees attending the lunch , as recognition of their achievements , was Montgomeryshire nurse Sue Blower , who had returned specially from her work as a nurse tutor in Bucharest , Romania , where she is helping to set up that country 's first school of nursing for 40 years . |