Example sentences of "to [pers pn] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reward to them from credit insurance would be the security which this would give against payment problems . |
| 2 | The system enables users to collate information downloaded to them from point-of-sale laptop systems and also to act as a point of information transfer between staff in the field and the head office . |
| 3 | Their 19th-century kings , with accompanying royal courts , were sent to them from north-west Europe . |
| 4 | Early in 1943 Leslie had written to me from North Africa : ‘ I had the unusual experience of seeing a Messerschmitt 110 shot down by A.A. fire not 100 feet above my head . |
| 5 | With this in mind , Neal Taylor has written to me from South Devon with a request for a simple battery indicator . |
| 6 | When I meet you I have in my mind commercialized pictures of attractiveness which have been ‘ sold ’ to me from birth . |
| 7 | It is the result of experiments with ideas that come to me from time to time , and developments into another way of segmenting to produce a slightly different result . |
| 8 | He 's talked to me from time to time . |
| 9 | The priest , minister , rabbi , or other community leader probably knows sources and will most likely quote them to you from memory if you telephone or approach him or her after a service . |
| 10 | Has this happened to you from time to time ? |
| 11 | A nobleman 's son will have a " slave " of his own age assigned to him from birth , who will later attend school with him in Makassar , and sometimes even university in distant Jakarta . |
| 12 | Most of the furniture was familiar to him from boyhood visits to his grandparents , inherited by his aunt as the last of her generation . |
| 13 | Roy 's paintings , influenced by Giorgio de Chirico , typically align ambiguously associated common objects , sometimes in a landscape , sometimes in an interior , against what he referred to ( in an autobiographical statement prepared for the Museum of Modern Art ) as ‘ the light blue sky with feather-like clouds between Angers and the sea ’ a sky beloved to him from childhood days . |
| 14 | One agent in North 's employ remembered being over at CIA headquarters one day when a call came in to him from North , ‘ and everybody in the room gave me a dirty look . ’ |
| 15 | This much at least remains unchanged , he thought ; each hill , each tree , each house familiar to him from youth . |
| 16 | Crump was a kindly man and his kindness to his wife had resulted in his being made to appear in thrall to her from time to time . |
| 17 | Whether this actually demonstrates anything is debatable — we all have antibodies to Candida because we are exposed to it from birth , and a positive response to an intradermal test is seen in some healthy individuals . |
| 18 | We find allusive reference to it from time to time in Leonard 's writings and songs — always with a frisson of awe . |
| 19 | As a whole , in spite of the splendour of much of the singing , this ca n't quite replace present recommendations , particularly those in the historic field , but I am sure it thrilled the audience in the Suntory Hall a year ago and I shall return to it from time to time for its visceral force and its sense of a tension well sustained . |
| 20 | Madam Deputy Speaker I only wanted to make a short intervention er er on this point and I think I will return to it from time to time because it is a perennial , annual problem of every time the minister introduces a a rule and regulation we can understand it 's extremely useful and how can one say that er regulations about fraud are not useful , it 's just the culture of our country has been besieged by these rules and regulations and I 'm surprised that anybody can actually make any profit or do any business simply because of the weight of officialdom and the weight of rules and regulations which prevents them from getting above er the the surface . |
| 21 | The TMI-2 accident now forms an important part of the considerable experience available to us from PWR operations around the world , and this summary shows that the CEGB and NNC must carefully assess and analyse the accident if they are to be certain that all of the relevant lessons from it have been satisfactorily incorporated in the British PWR . |
| 22 | Post-mortem tissue was made available to us from talapoin monkeys ( Cercopithecus talapoin ) that had been used in unrelated endocrinological studies . |
| 23 | Our database is large and the two principle factors we employ are a ) Cost Price to us from estate , foundry , artist or representative dealer and b ) proposed and/or actual selling price to our client . |
| 24 | ‘ Thank goodness you 're back ’ said one of the clerks who had been seconded to us from County Hall . |
| 25 | Sam McAughtry , who first took his seat on this stage back in 1985 , will delight us with his humorous and heartwarming tales of life in the Tiger 's Bay district of North Belfast , while the best-selling author of ‘ To School Through the Fields ’ Alice Taylor , comes to us from County Cork with stories of life as a youngster on an isolated farm in that county in the '40s . |
| 26 | Those two sentences are straight quotations from a leaflet sent to us from Warp Factor Eight , a firm in Ware . |
| 27 | Mrs Billy Bond writes to us from Forest Row , East Sussex to say that most knitting machine shops are run by friendly and helpful people but Knitmates is outstanding . |
| 28 | ‘ People come to us from department stores because they ca n't find this kind of furniture there , ’ said manager Steve Raper . |