Example sentences of "from [noun] 's [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Henry took the heavily laden tray from Peggy 's hands and put it on a side-table as Lizzie said , ‘ Did she have her dinner and tea all at once ? ’
2 The course on theory and criticism will run for two terms and covers the major theories and methods of film practice from Eisenstein 's articles on montage to contemporary pronouncements on auteur cinema .
3 She 'd heard it recently , from Roman 's lips .
4 At these words a long , low cry of despair and anger came from Bathsheba 's lips .
5 To give you a feeling how large these forces could be I quote from Feynman 's lectures : " If you were standing at arm 's length from someone and each of you had one per cent more electrons than protons , the repelling force would be incredible .
6 But they were still there , she realised , all those doubts … nothing had changed , just because she happened to have ricocheted from Mortimer 's clutches into Guy 's arms this afternoon , just because Guy Sterne 's physical chemistry created a minor explosion when it mingled with hers …
7 if the relationship is CONTAINS_SOURCE_OF , then the name of the file in which the module is to be transferred to and from user 's accounts .
8 Her eyes ate up Nicandra 's beaded satin , and shifted disapprovingly from Lalage 's muslins — a clothes snob to the last .
9 A reinforced riding top hat from Christie 's costs £120 and the veil an extra £2.95 .
10 It is a hundred miles from King 's lions
11 Advance tickets are available from Cassady 's Records , Gillygate
12 Dr Seldon is right to exempt the Defence Committee from Churchill 's strictures .
13 Accent Soleil Limpide Rose Frêle Three soft , luxurious lip colours from Chanel 's Intensities range in a Minor Key with co-ordinating nail enamels .
14 For a split second the friendliness disappeared from Marianne 's eyes to be replaced by a calculating glint .
15 Their lands were now being occupied by poorer people , their former servants , who had not the means , nor , to judge from McQueen 's words , the energies or capacities to work the land properly ; by such measures were they witnessing the reduction of the great Scottish holdings .
16 It followed from Rousseau 's theories that children , being nearer to nature , might ‘ know ’ more than adults , who had been miseducated .
17 Deriving his theory from Newton 's laws of angular momentum , Laplace postulated that a vast disc-shaped pall of cold gas was rotating in space in the vicinity of our present solar system .
18 We can conclude from Kleiman 's experiments that when our attention is divided we can recognise the meanings of individual words adequately , but that they can be combined only with difficulty .
19 Its $25m reserve fund had been run down to around $8m after auditors , following a takeover of Heritage in October , found $13m missing from Heritage 's tills .
20 Haggis p15/ The famed dish of Scotland , made from sheep 's intestines and served on many traditional feast days .
21 At the bigger settlements small groups of ‘ merchants ’ squatted along the track selling everything from sheep 's heads , staring blindly on the blanket before them , to rusting automobile parts .
22 The company is based in a mews off the Cromwell Road in London , impeccably furnished with black leather , dark wood and framed posters from Puttnam 's films .
23 Is starting off from Lisa 's fingers .
24 The eggs were from Alison 's hens , the leaves from her garden and hedgerow , the cheese from a neighbour 's goats , the bread chewy and wood-scented .
25 HLA-DR antigen was detected in 15–41% ( mean 27% ) of all gated cells from Dupuytren 's patients , compared with 1.2% of controls .
26 It was strange , the comfort she got from Ben 's words , a sudden consoling warmth like finding an electric fire to turn on when the central heating failed in winter .
27 A stone rolled free and splashed into the water no more than a yard from Trent 's feet .
28 He slapped the magazine into his pistol-butt and took a step forward , his jungle boots stirring the mud inches from Trent 's feet .
29 If , in Lady Chatterley 's Lover , the scales were to fall from Connie 's eyes and she were to see the worship of Mellor 's phallus for what it is , a means of subordinating and oppressing women , she could free herself and develop her authentic will , ego and individuality .
30 The Silence of the Lambs has epigraphs from Donne 's Devotions and the First Book of Corinthians and other allusions which will ensure its place on reading lists , at least in America .
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