Example sentences of "from [adv] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From somewhere they would suddenly turn up in all sorts of fancy gear , funny sorts of knickerbockers and sweatshirts with strange devices thereon , and also funny hats . |
| 2 | From somewhere she could hear a lecturer droning ; maybe it needed speeding up a little . |
| 3 | From below he could see that its skin was strangely pale and pink between its wide-straddled hind legs and the tight black bag of its scrotum , he thought , seemed incongruously small and toylike for such a massive , murderous animal . |
| 4 | From inside we could hear screams of ‘ please , open the door ! ’ |
| 5 | From inside she could hear raised voices and a shrill cry , as if someone were in pain . |
| 6 | From henceforth he shall continue To judge hatred and arrogance . |
| 7 | We 'll find , while he 's just finding that look there 's just one more item that 's erm a Christmas card from so I 'll pass that round so you can have a while we 're just trying to find . |
| 8 | Show me where each term from so you could Thanks very much . |
| 9 | From outside he could hear the muted hum of London 's traffic . |
| 10 | I 've seen the film of this where they 're trying to g and all around from outside you can see the graves the graveyard . |
| 11 | I have decided that as from tonight I will be reborn under a different star , ’ and here she gestured upwards to the constellation over her head , ‘ I will be rechristened , I will come down those stairs tomorrow night fresh to the world and glistening with a new name ; from now on , you will kindly refer to me , both to my sainted face and behind my back , as Mother . |
| 12 | There is , therefore , before any understanding of historic agents and movements , a certain aporia in all social ensembles : from afar they may appear whole , but close to , they can be seen as riddled with holes . |
| 13 | Seven years from now they will be Britain 's top importers . |
| 14 | A decade from now we 'll wonder what the fuss was about . |
| 15 | A decade from now we might , as you suggest , be wondering what all the fuss was about . |
| 16 | You 're talking about about two months from now we 'd have our first year anniversary . |
| 17 | In five years time from now it will have developed into an all powerful , constitutionally independent institution responsible for the Community 's monetary and exchange rate policies . |
| 18 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 19 | In a minute from now you could be saying , I risked death . |
| 20 | Sixty years from now you will bless him . |
| 21 | I was certain that from now I would never look back . |
| 22 | I am now looking forward to coming home , and am thinking that a fortnight from now I should have arrived in Hong Kong . |
| 23 | Ten minutes from now he would be climbing the stairs in the dark . |
| 24 | Couple of years from now he 'll be a pundit surgeon . |
| 25 | From now he will be treated as a Soviet offender , that is why he is not at Camp 5 … |
| 26 | From behind I could have been a man with my hood up . |
| 27 | From behind he could hear horses whinneying , brakes applied , a crash and splintering wood . |
| 28 | He was well aware of Billy 's prowess in the ring and knew that although he was far from well he could still punch his weight . |
| 29 | From tomorrow they will have BA flight numbers . |
| 30 | sort of , to put it , I 'm gon na be is that as from tomorrow we will have identified what erm desking and so on will be moved during the reorganization erm , and obviously any of the desking that is n't gon na be moved until the organization , we 'll be tidying up the cables . |