Example sentences of "for [pron] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Scroungers ’ expect something for nothing from the Welfare State , rather than offering a fair day 's work for a fair day 's pay . |
| 2 | The Communist Party could apparently hope for little from the Socialist League and for nothing from the Labour Party . |
| 3 | It 's a very versatile shape for everyone from the slender to the grandest size . |
| 4 | Golf Magazine , Motorcycle World , Bike , Amateur Gardening — there are specialist magazines for everyone from the rat fancier to the rugby fan . |
| 5 | The reappearance , first and most immediately , of Eanfrith and subsequently of Oswald in Bernician territory at so crucial a moment in the history of the northern Angles could imply military assistance for them from the Picts or the Scots or both and even perhaps a certain ability to act in concert with the British king , Cadwallon . |
| 6 | However , since Brezhnev 's proposals for the Gulf were linked to the broader issue of the Indian Ocean ‘ zone of peace ’ Soviet officials still made an effort to gain support for them from the Indian Ocean Third World states and the non-aligned nations in general . |
| 7 | It is time he responded and paid compensation to those farmers , and allowed them to get on with earning their livelihood , instead of telling them that there is nothing for them from the Ministry of Agriculture . |
| 8 | No , there 's no problem , I 'm just like , saying that , they sound really thick , they 're rubbish at being in a band , and it 's just all so down-hill for them from the beginning , really , they did n't really have a chance , did they . |
| 9 | ‘ They were on the look-out for a female DJ so everyone was very up for me from the word go . |
| 10 | Warhol was utterly and completely worthless for me from the word go , something in the history of fashion perhaps but nothing to do with art whatsoever . |
| 11 | He said he had a message for me from the Duke of Strelsau . |
| 12 | ‘ Something about this entire operation never rang true for me from the start . |
| 13 | But Sally was so good , Luckily I 'd remembered to pack the Farley 's Rusks and she had those mixed up with boiled water the guard got for me from the restaurant car . ’ |
| 14 | What I 'd really like , of course , is not to have to bother with lugging kilo bags of sugar and tins of weedkiller back from the town to stuff into electrical-conduit piping which Jamie the dwarf gets for me from the building contractor 's where he works in Porteneil . |
| 15 | So unless er anyone has any direct questions for me from the meeting erm |
| 16 | I tipped the wink to a pal of mine who 's big in local government , and he managed to fix it for someone from the public health authority to write a letter full of threats and demands and legal gobbledegook . |
| 17 | Indeed the railway companies resisted the idea of workmen 's trains , for which from the middle of the nineteenth century there had been a vocal lobby . |
| 18 | ‘ I think when you go back to your desk you will find a letter waiting for you from the Commissioner . |
| 19 | What rake off for you from the cemeteries ? |
| 20 | Shall I arrange a taxi for you from the station ? |
| 21 | The beep in the earpiece is when you 're on the phone , either to somebody within the press , or outside the press , and another call comes through for you from the switchboard , and you 're engaged , obviously , and so they camp onto your extension number , and you receive a beep in the earpiece , now you can speak to these people if you key in R star 1 . |
| 22 | The hardships that Ceauşescu imposed were not only necessary to provide the funds and material for everything from the House of the People ( to which they would be denied access ) to canals without traffic and power-stations without fuel , but also formed part of the folk-wisdom of tyrants going back much further in history than Ceauşescu 's own model , Stalin . |
| 23 | In our wedding brochure you 'll find ideas for everything from the flowers and the cars to the reception and the honeymoon ; there 's even our own health hydro , Forest Mere , ideal to soothe pre-wedding nerves . |
| 24 | The Catering Manager 's office next door to the Refectory in the Richmond Building is the hub of all action where secretary Gill O' Brien runs the daily order books and takes bookings for everything from the Vice-Chancellor 's lunches to conference buffets . |
| 25 | The England that Pound mourns the loss of is , as it had been for him from the first , an integral province of western Europe , sharing a common culture with France and always reaching out , through France , to the shores of the Mediterranean . |
| 26 | In 1696 Lowther of Lowther , tired of contesting elections , employed his cousin to seek a viscountcy for him from the king . |
| 27 | I glanced at my watch , found I had forgotten to adjust it and read the time for him from the digital clock at the base of the instrument panel . |
| 28 | Huy had returned to his house in order to work out a way of getting into the brothel known by the impious name of the Glory of Set — Nebamun had been right , he found that he simply could not let the whole thing drop , and now there was a friend 's death to be avenged — when the message had come for him from the palace compound . |
| 29 | He had adopted his slighting manner , he knew , to protect himself from the attraction which she had possessed for him from the first moment that he had seen her . |
| 30 | He 'd been over the limit , they 'd said , when he 'd crashed his BMW , and there could have been no sympathy whatsoever for him from the relatives of the woman killed in the other car . |