Example sentences of "with [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I brought the vehicle with me from the UK . |
| 2 | Prince , he said , ‘ has been with me from the commencement of my various works . |
| 3 | He and his wife had offered us accommodation with them from the time my curacy finished until after the expedition . |
| 4 | When they had recovered they hurriedly cooked and ate the ration of cold rice they had brought with them from the barracks and swallowed a mouthful or two of water . |
| 5 | ‘ You said they were n't acknowledged ; what 's wrong with them from the Edwin Garlands ’ point of view ? ’ |
| 6 | The first generation might practise some " levelling " — an adaptation and " evening-out " of any highly marked regionalisms in their speech — but would basically stick to the linguistic habits they brought with them from the Caribbean . |
| 7 | For as the people became urbanised , the ancient ways and practices they brought with them from the countryside or the pre-industrial town became irrelevant or impracticable . |
| 8 | She started drinking heavily , and fellow drunks would return with her from the pub on Friday nights . |
| 9 | She was busy at the tap over in the far corner of the cemetery , filling the empty bottle she had brought with her from the house . |
| 10 | But ‘ it was evidently all she owned ; it was the home she had brought with her from the Fatherland , and would be the home she would set up on the prairie ’ . |
| 11 | Prized most of all was the collection of classical poetry — from John Donne to Robert Browning — which enhanced the Hebraic and Yiddish verse that had been with him from the first . |
| 12 | In Tolkien , by huge contrast , he met a man whose style had been with him from the beginning . |
| 13 | But his fascination with motion , the ‘ gate of natural philosophy ’ , had probably been with him from the beginning of that decade . |
| 14 | Because you 've been crackers about Christopher , in love with him from the cradle . |
| 15 | He fumbled for his skeleton keys and realised that he had not brought them with him from the car . |
| 16 | He turned to reach the two glasses of wine that stood on a bedside table ; he 'd brought them with him from the dinner table . |
| 17 | Viktor had sketched the green enamel and the twinkling diamonds in the tattered book he 'd taken with him from the charnel house that had been his home . |
| 18 | He took his typescript with him from the compartment for fear of its vanishing . |
| 19 | With Keith , I fell head over heels in love with him from the first time we met , and I 'd only been going out with him two weeks and he asked me to get engaged . |
| 20 | Immediately the anger and irritation he had brought with him from the house erupted in a howl of anger . |
| 21 | But he had brought back with him from the pilgrimage no feeling of achievement or merit , only a sense of failure with which he was already too familiar . |
| 22 | The time had come to splash out to the tune of forty quid a head for the eight members of his party who had travelled with him from the Forest of Arden to Sussex by the Sea . |
| 23 | Whitaker had been with him from the very start , a solid , dependable man who knew his own limitations . |
| 24 | ‘ Now I want to share with him from the earliest moments the joy , the vindication , the victory after all that we have gone through together . ’ |
| 25 | If this is to be the structure , it is good to go with it from the outset : once groups are established and running , you may find it difficult for group members to ‘ own ’ such a threatening idea ! |
| 26 | It sounds like it was bought new , so you probably got a guarantee with it from the manufacturer . |
| 27 | Mr Steisel says City Hall has been in close contact with it from the start . |
| 28 | She came with us from the orphanage back home , two hundred heads in two hundreds beds and two hundred broken hearts under two hundred army surplus blankets and the good nuns to look after us . |