Example sentences of "from [pron] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately I had not realised that a stern rope had already been passed to the ship and an indignant shout from my crew on the after deck drew my attention to the long nylon rope which was now snaking dangerously round the bollards as we drew away . |
| 2 | From My Man on the Road |
| 3 | From My Man on the Road |
| 4 | So the flooding had not been from the lake — which hitherto I had assumed to be the case ; maybe it had come from the river whose bed , now dried , I had seen from my eminence on the hillside . |
| 5 | ‘ I told you , Harvey , the package of eggs was stolen from my baggage on the way to London Airport . ’ |
| 6 | From my place on the gallery I could keep a watch on Claire 's door and on what was happening in the hall below . |
| 7 | I would not want to return you to your female progenitor in what , from my briefings on human culture , I perceive to be an indecorous condition . ’ |
| 8 | I have discovered that using the water from my tank on both my indoor and outdoor plants promotes tremendous new growth — four inches on my camellia and three inches on my rubber plant . |
| 9 | This time my reaction to the knowledge that in all probability cancer was back with me and that I had a dreaded secondary was quite different from my reaction on first being told of the disease six months earlier . |
| 10 | The shoal I observed from my perch on the tree did not swim in any particular formation . |
| 11 | After that , it took the agents four days to extract a confession from their prisoner on the USS Butte before turning him over to the US Navy for the 13 hour 10 minute flight to Washington , a new solo record for a carrier-based aircraft carrying a second-hand car dealer . |
| 12 | On or around April 15 , Iranian forces moved from their base on Abu Musa island to take control of its school , police station and desalination plant . |
| 13 | In the wake of the agreement , Greenpeace is to withdraw its team from their base on Ross Island . |
| 14 | Two Swedish engineers kidnapped by the Moslem Janbaz " Crusader " Force ( MJF ) in March 1991 [ see p. 38151 ] escaped from their captors on July 5 . |
| 15 | In addition , from their position on the moral high ground , they repeatedly denounced many of the leisure pursuits of their neighbours , such as drinking , dancing , and theatre-going , which they regarded as occasions of sin and distractions from religious devotion . |
| 16 | From their position on the block , he 'd been steadying it with his left hand while drawing out a knife with his right . ’ |
| 17 | So they take advantage of a rule that permits them to spend money left over from their campaigns on themselves . |
| 18 | Since French troops had been removed from their positions on the Somme to bolster their imperilled comrades at Verdun , this offensive was to be undertaken largely by British troops . |
| 19 | They are a very old family who have lived in that house for centuries , as you can see from their name on the stone over the front door . |
| 20 | ( For the moment we shall assume that the public 's payments for the bonds come from their expenditure on consumption goods . ) |
| 21 | Britain 's oldest and biggest investment trust invited the lucky investor , Fiona Saunders , and fiance Graham Grant , up for a day in London from their home on the Isle of Wight . |
| 22 | Mr Pettitt and Miss Larkin vanished from their home on south Merseyside six weeks ago . |
| 23 | Assessment tasks are Constructed using the criterion descriptions as a guide , and pupils ' mastery of the domain of a criterion judged from their performance on the tasks . |
| 24 | All four need the skills , and the new jobs they bring , to wean their economies from their reliance on mining and ranching . |
| 25 | While there have been a few studies of women offenders , investiga-tors have generally looked upon the difference between masculine and feminine criminality merely as a reason for eliminating female subjects from their researches on the ground that they provide insufficient material . |
| 26 | Offerors and target companies can expect to receive formal written advice from their advisers on the more important provisions of the Code and the insider dealing legislation ( see para 7.1.1 below ) . |
| 27 | But here a thin frieze of very old trees had been preserved for the delectation of the lairds who looked out from their houses on the slopes — Cluny , Grandtully , Clochfoldich , Pitcastle . |
| 28 | From their views on the intentional and affective fallacies ( Brooks seems to have agreed entirely with Wimsatt and Beardsley about these ) it follows that this reconciliation of opposites must be seen not as an event in the mind of the author or reader , but as an objective fact about the text 's meaning or structure . |
| 29 | Are we meant to take it seriously ? premature babies are routinely taken from their mothers on the maternity ward into intensive care , or sterile areas , often for long periods and although their mothers might miss them , it would be thought sentimental to claim the opposite . |
| 30 | Mrs James ' two animals were taken from their stable on her farm at Bedlington , Northumberland , one night in November 1990 . |