Example sentences of "from [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bonefish Straker had rescued Masquerade , propping her up in his own backyard and refusing to take any money from me as a salvage fee . |
| 2 | ‘ Take it from me as a medico , ’ called Pringle up to her , ‘ no stirrup-cups today ! |
| 3 | Here are a couple of suggestions from me as a customer of the high street . |
| 4 | ‘ Verlander bought the land from me at a grossly undervalued price ! |
| 5 | In or about February 1983 , I received a message via my branch director that the deputy Director-General of MI5 was prepared to consider favourably an application from me for a telephone intercept on a member of the Communist Party within C.N.D. John Cox , a Vice-President of C.N.D. , was selected since he was well known as a member of the Communist Party and had been involved in C.N.D. practically since its inception . |
| 6 | She 's OK ’ with Mrs Lennox and it 's good for her to get away from me for a bit just now and again . |
| 7 | ‘ And do n't worry if you do n't hear from me for a few days . |
| 8 | The mail will probably take a couple of days longer to reach you from Sian , & no doubt we 'll be very busy when we get there , so forgive me if you do n't hear from me for a little while . |
| 9 | Buy back from me with a note at the continental retreat ( 6 ) . |
| 10 | The net is thus supported and I then push the sideways slackness of the net in either direction from me with a movement of either hand . |
| 11 | You could say that most winters in Baldersdale are too long , and every time we have a really bad one it takes something away from me in a physical sense . |
| 12 | I felt as though I was riding on a pink cloud with all the tension and misery flowing from me in a joyful torrent . |
| 13 | All my frustration burst from me in a torrent of incoherent shouts and I grabbed the chain and began to pull on it frenziedly . |
| 14 | And I said , another thing , I said , some visitors I get here , I said , they buy more from me in a month than some of the locals buy in a week . |
| 15 | When the Incas controlled this area , I was told by The Rough Guide to Peru ( my chattier , more colourful back-up to the ‘ bible ’ ) , ‘ they considered the Uros so poor — almost sub-human — that only a section of hollow cane filled with lice was required from them as a monthly tribute . ’ |
| 16 | It is argued that lone parents have children taken away from them as a punishment for their failure to cope with society 's shortcomings and its failure to offer adequate support . |
| 17 | When colour was finally re-introduced into Braque 's painting , it was to appear as a completely independent pictorial element , related to solid forms and the space surrounding them , but clearly distinguishable from them as a separate artistic factor . |
| 18 | The regarders accused one of them , Ralph of Abinghall , of having impounded in Walmore Green the animals belonging to the men of the district , extorted sixty geese from them as an amercement , and kept the beasts for himself , although all profits of such attachments belonged to the king . |
| 19 | and she 's got an acceptance from them on a B and two Cs |
| 20 | He started back from them with a striking appearance of horror … ’ |
| 21 | He blinked , and tore his gaze away from them with an effort . |
| 22 | ( d ) You 'll have on your file a permanent record of the title and all its principal features in a much more manageable form than that of an abstract ; your notes will remain with your papers for future reference ; and from them at a later date you should be able , if necessary , to answer any questions or difficulties that may arise . |
| 23 | Under the persuasion of the Bow Street Runners , information was wrung from them about a meeting of the Wokingham Blacks , and a complete troop of Horse Grenadiers was drafted down to the forest . |
| 24 | Frederica could not see Alexander at all : indeed she had noted he was not there : she stared around and around now at colourless air and sand as though he might rise from them like a mirage . |
| 25 | When the marker of comparison is deleted , the text reflects the perceptions of the people , as on the occasion when Lok and Fa hear an echo , and the narrator reports " their words had flown away from them like a flock of birds that circled and multiplied mysteriously … they stood … while the birds flew farther and farther away … ( p. 81 ) . |
| 26 | Monica loves to entertain and cook for visitors , but dislikes spending all her time away from them in a separate room , so linking the two rooms was the perfect solution . |
| 27 | Many of them link with databases , report writers and spreadsheet facilities so that you can present data from them in a visual form . |
| 28 | The whole upper valley of the river Maran stretched away from them in a succession of rich pasture , coppice , and deer park . |
| 29 | There are longueurs in Act I , but he skilfully deflects attention from them by a deft account of the ballet music and by letting us admire the much improved state of the Royal Opera chorus . |
| 30 | The bodyguard drove , cut off from them by a sliding glass panel . |