Example sentences of "from [pers pn] at [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | He showed me the location of Bentwaters in the old AA Book of the Road I always carried and then bought the two ounces of Red from me at four times what I 'd agreed to pay for it . |
2 | 2.00 : Another Welfare Assistant takes over with R from me at this time . |
3 | He told me that if I bought this land at five pounds a dunum , he and his friend would buy it from me at twenty-five a dunum . |
4 | This may be the thing that the world as a whole would want to buy from them at economic rates . |
5 | The electrodes permanently attached to his scalp — we need those to take the frequent and essential measurements of electric impulses produced by his brain — are also imperceptible to him , since the resilience of his mattress ensures he feels no pressure from them at all . |
6 | Rock-climbers make sure they have lots of metal implements swinging from them at all times . |
7 | You were getting all your orders from them at that time ? |
8 | On three sides of this mound there is a colonnade on a raised platform comprising sixteen evenly spaced square pillars of unhewn stone , each thirty-two feet high , linked together at the top by heavy beams with ropes and chains hanging from them at short intervals . |
9 | If any readers have any information about this legendary team , in particular personal recollection , I should be very grateful indeed to hear from them at this address . |
10 | If you are a shoulder to cry on without fear of being shrugged off , that is all she will want from you at that stage . |
11 | ‘ Praise from you at last , Peregrine . |
12 | ( Published by the author , and obtainable from him at 1 , Eva Road , Cheadle Heath , Stockport , Cheshire SK3 OSX. £6.25 ) . |
13 | The temple bells were clanging to their climax as Ramlal hurried past the door , clutching his precious document , and laughing to himself at the thought that the God had got nothing from him at all . |
14 | And now what she had to do was maintain her temper at white heat until he had pumped his pleasure into her so that she would not lose her nerve — and possibly her satin — by cringing away from him at that vital last moment — vital for him , fatal perhaps for her — and pleading with him not to make her pregnant . |
15 | He was writing something in longhand , the paper turned sideways , the pen flying along the lines away from him at great speed . |
16 | It has to be emphasised that the committee worked always in the shadow of the law : Section 132 of the Public Health Act 1875 had said that any expenses incurred by a local authority in maintaining in a hospital a patient who is not a pauper , should be deemed to be a debt due from such patient to the local authority , and could be recovered from him at any time within six months after his discharge from the hospital . |
17 | When , for example , a solicitor is recruited as a specialist to head up a new department it would be appropriate to seek some commitment from him at any rate in the medium term . |
18 | She nodded slightly , and he bent his head to give her a kiss which was meant to be fleeting , but which went on and on until they were breathless and shaken when he put her away from him at last . |
19 | Philip 's Mum took over from her at two . |
20 | Did you hear from her at all after you left Naples ? ’ |
21 | ‘ Do you hear from her at all ? ’ |
22 | Never never heard from her at all since then . |
23 | It is almost impossible to visit a museum , and learn nothing from it at all . |
24 | They tell me they told but I do n't feel any effects from it at all . |
25 | It was patently clear to all that Samuel Pipkin could have poisoned the water after he had drunk from it , if indeed he had drunk from it at all . |
26 | I did n't plan to deviate from it at all for the rest of my speech anyway . |
27 | I 'd learned nothing from it at all . |
28 | The standard interpretation of their redshifts says that NGC 4319 is receding from us at 1800 km per sec , while the redshift of Markarian 205 indicates a recession velocity of 21 000 km per sec ( The Redshift Controversy , G. B. Field , H. Arp & J. N. Bahcall , W. A. Benjamin , New York , 1974 , p 46 ) . |