Example sentences of "from [pron] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We closed down the Calgary office during the year as part of our planned withdrawal from thee Alberta market .
2 Next week we shall be in Scotland with the Helensborough and Gerloch Horticultural Society so I hope we can cultivate your interest again then but for now from Daphne , Fred Walter and from me Stefan goodbye and may I wish a joyous and peaceful Christmas to all of our gardening friends everywhere .
3 ‘ One German in particular , a Major Kuntz , actually remembered me operating from my Bofors Gun position all those years ago ’ .
4 But all this is hindsight : it is a series of thoughts and feelings which sprang from a visit on a painful occasion ( my mother 's funeral ) , and not from my childhood experience of childhood itself .
5 Flaky pastry from my Banbury cake cascaded on to my knees .
6 The trolley had been pushed a few feet away and my handbag removed from my shopping bag .
7 I did allow myself a Metastim tablet from my belt pouch , but even its effect was minimal , and temporary .
8 Once the channel tunnel is built , from my Manchester constituency alone , seven freight trains a night will leave Trafford Park for Europe .
9 And he had seen me walking from my hotel apartment with Dana — Americano , he said disdainfully .
10 From my hotel window I had watched the tiny procession bearing its little donkey aloft , then seen the children sweep the streets with the palms , startling a piglet from a gutter .
11 By my first week in-country ( my third on mefloquine ) I had reduced sensation in my legs , was waking up with a start from severe nightmares which subjectively had lasted for hours ( in reality for only 15 min ) , and occasionally wondering what it would be like to jump the eight floors from my hotel room .
12 GEMS FROM MY TICKET COLLECTION
13 EVEN MORE GEMS FROM MY TICKET COLLECTION
14 ‘ You did Celia a favour — she deserved it , I suppose , but you parted me from my twin sister without a single qualm .
15 Like all British officials of the Egyptian Government I had been dismissed from my university post eighteen months before , and I was glad that the British Council was able to offer me a small post in Athens , instead of piece work in Cairo .
16 Then we found a small house about one hundred yards from my university department .
17 But because I work during the week , Saturday is the only time I have , apart from my lunch hour .
18 from my vantage point I saw nothing in the few seconds between the County Inspector 's announcement to have incited what appeared to be a concerted start by the police .
19 I had just seen Dad and another man carrying a tool box to safety when a loud shout from a policeman sent me scurrying back from my vantage point .
20 At the end of the pitch I ran out of strength and quick draws at the same time , and this seemed a legitimate excuse to frig about , rest and admire the superb view from my vantage point high on the mountain .
21 U From my vantage point I could see through the railings into the front garden where Shep was slinking noiselessly into position beneath the stones .
22 They remained as they were ; in some fashion they were communing , and I could sense from my vantage point the necessity that linked them .
23 Still , I 've accepted advice from my film star chums , who are more used to this than I am , I now have my mail and phone calls intercepted .
24 I had a fine view from my sitting-room window .
25 ‘ I usually travel with an assistant from my management company and she does the same so we look a fine pair , both of us sitting there with dozens of jars in front of us , but it does the trick ; it takes my mind off the fact that we are 30,000 feet in the air at the time .
26 ‘ I recommended the player through a contact , so I have taken some flak from my management team .
27 As of today Clint is coming down from my kitchen wall and Gazza Gascoigne is going up .
28 Biologists believe the same benthic algae may have been responsible for animal deaths on Loch Lubnaig , near Callander , not far from my Stirling home , and at Loch Insh on Speyside in the past two years .
29 I cross the tarmac and climb a fence , then take the ski-mask from my trouser pocket and pull it over my head .
30 From my trouser pocket I take a handkerchief , and I use it to clean fingerprints off the gun .
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