Example sentences of "from [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's had over seven thousand from me the past three months . |
| 2 | Unemployment steals from them the economic conditions which supported the new wave of feminism in the sixties and early seventies , but the welfare state , the provision of child benefit , minimal as it is , and supplementary benefit , mean they can survive in the absence of jobs and wages of their own . |
| 3 | Before them the bevelled slope , fifteen feet high , cut off from them the whole upper expanse of Aurae Phiala , with all its flower-beds and stone walls ; and all its visitors had vanished with it . |
| 4 | Yeah actually that 's that 's a good point because I 'm , I had something from you the other day your erm , you know the magazine that you sent |
| 5 | What 's that treacle thing that we got from you the other day ? |
| 6 | I have not yet received from you the promised database questionnaire , so do please send one . |
| 7 | The faster she got away from him the better , for her sanity if nothing else . |
| 8 | Now stealing from him the natural flesh ? |
| 9 | Johnson extracted from him the English meaning of the Gaelic place-name ; it signified a place of , or near , water , conforming , claimed McQueen , to ‘ all the descriptions of the temples of that goddess , which were situated near rivers that there might be water to wash the statue ’ . |
| 10 | Elizabeth walked with Hector , taking care to turn away from him the last yellow stains round her left eye , and smiled sweetly to hide the deadly steel of her thoughts . |
| 11 | Lissa thrust her belongings back into her jacket , bending her head to hide from him the secretive smile that touched her lips . |
| 12 | I took it from him the next day . ’ |
| 13 | And he could put from him the treacherous suspicion that their first meeting had been contrived , part of a plan devised by her and Pascoe to exploit his influence with Hilary . |
| 14 | I 'm sure your friend will put a good word in for you , ’ which brought from her the sharp retort : ‘ Yes , he will ! |
| 15 | One day he will , and proceed to create from her the perfect dish of a wife and peeress . ’ |
| 16 | Perhaps she would be angry if , by trying to impose responsibility on her daughter by giving her the vote , we were also taking from her the only comfort which she has , namely that when she is older she will change all that . |
| 17 | ‘ As to that , madam , I shall go further , ’ he said gallantly , whereupon he unfastened his leather pouch and carefully removed from it the Great Seal of England . |
| 18 | Rushing over to the open suitcase standing on a side table , she snatched from it the long paper-cutter she had brought back for Harold from New York . |
| 19 | Is n't there an argument which says if you 're trying to protect York and its setting that the further you actually move the development away from it the greater the protection you afford it ? |
| 20 | I phoned your lot from it the other night . |
| 21 | Whatever its original purpose may have been , as with any ruin , we must hack from it the thick vegetation which threatens to cut it off from us : to find in it something of significance for ourselves . |
| 22 | JR sent for the latest aged debt report , quickly extracted from it the top 20 customers and found what he now expected to find — that more than 80% ; of the total debts were due form these , although by number they amounted to considerably less than 20% ; of the total customer file . |
| 23 | THE death of the Dowager Duchess of Rutland has taken from us the last and most loved of our nieces ( for niece she was , although older than the present writers by five and ten years ) . |