Example sentences of "from [pos pn] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was helping out some old friends from my Women 's Group today , that was all . |
| 2 | Doing a lot of hitch-hiking , as I did from my parents ' house in Wales to London , I met many different people . |
| 3 | At age eleven I had gone away from my parents ' school to a boarding school in Herefordshire , and remembered crying miserably as my mother and father drove off down the drive , leaving me to be looked after by one of the older boys . |
| 4 | From aged twelve to fourteen I was on Sundays marched , crocodile-wise , from my girls ' boarding school to the local Anglican church . |
| 5 | ‘ I used recycled material mainly from my grandchildren 's clothes and I use all the proper stuffing . |
| 6 | " These are mine , " he said , " for naturally I ca n't give you pears from my brothers ' share . " |
| 7 | its going to come round at you in a minute , so I 'll talk about it until it gets to you , erm , it delighted my children this particular painting , erm and I decided to put my sort of analytical approach to one side erm and do something with that later , so this poem is from my , my children 's point of view and one of the things that are very interested , they were really worried , that , erm , I think it marks the height of the table and the fact that the puppies might fall off and do themselves some harm , that , I 'll read it while its going round and then I can see then , that , so this is , ok , from my children 's point of view this poem , its called Threes , Table laid and waiting , milk place in bowl not to high , they lap and swirl , played and roll , paws distance from knocking and breaking goblet , made from clay . |
| 8 | 2.48 It can thus be seen from their lordships ' views in Taylor v O'Connor [ 1971 ] AC 115 that there is no judicial unanimity when damages come to be assessed under the Fatal Accidents Act 1976 . |
| 9 | I was told by Mary Dines , former General Secretary of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants , that , in the past , ‘ it was a fairly frequent occurrence that these young girls , straight from their grandmothers ' houses , would be taken to Holloway prison , their pubic hair shaved off , and examined for VD . ’ |
| 10 | The administration would like more states to follow California 's lead in allowing electricity companies to reap profits from their customers ' investments in conservation . |
| 11 | In seconds , the police officers ' hats were dislodged from their owners ' heads , and they disappeared into a boiling fighting , mass of humanity . |
| 12 | Dog bone vouchers were stopped last November , and St Petersburg 's 360,000 cats and dogs are trying to survive on scraps from their owners ' tables . |
| 13 | She shut her eyes , waiting , hiding from their giants ' toy-shop of beds and cubic rooms . |
| 14 | I do not propose that children be removed from their parents ' care . |
| 15 | It has also been spurred on by the growing tendency for young adults to seek accommodation away from their parents ' home and , particularly in the 1980s , by the increase in the numbers of young adults resulting from the baby boom . |
| 16 | And they sped forward with the squeals of the pack to their right as they were sighted , the clods and stones scattering from their horses ' hoofs , into a full , tearing gallop in the twilight . |
| 17 | Surprisingly few widows had occupational pensions derived from their husbands ' entitlements . |
| 18 | As work for the Further Education Unit ( FEU 1990b ) has shown , sensitive support is necessary to enable many parents to face the issues arising from their children 's autonomy , empowerment and adulthood . |
| 19 | Overdrive , a company which offers hauliers the services of relief drivers to cope with peaks in their business , gives drivers specific job responsibilities under the 1974 Act ( see the extract from their Drivers ' Handbook below ) : |
| 20 | As in the later Middle Ages , individual interest won out over class interest in landlords ' poaching of peasants from their peers ' estates . |
| 21 | I understand she was found not all that far from her parents ' house ? |
| 22 | She had inherited a substantial sum of money from her parents ' estates and devoted herself to works of charity . |
| 23 | The therapist tried to get her to look at such situations from her parents ' viewpoint . |
| 24 | She had left boyfriend Jason Cooke looking after their eight-month-old son , Owen , while she fetched baby clothes from her parents ' home . |
| 25 | That evening she could hear raised voices emanating from her parents ' room . |
| 26 | As she drove away from her parents ' house , she was still reluctant to return to Rose Cottage ; so , delaying the moment of arrival for as long as possible , she decided to return home via Brighton , and to spend the day there , window shopping . |
| 27 | Rosemary had not returned from her parents ' home yet ; Travis was either still abroad or was coping better , for he had not contacted her again . |
| 28 | She was sitting at the mirror in her room , having excused herself from her cousins ' chatter minutes before . |
| 29 | Nevertheless it is not something that we can ignore , for the teacher needs feedback from her students ' performances in order to judge the effectiveness of her teaching and may need to know that students have reached certain standards before progressing to more difficult work . |
| 30 | Mrs Singh had now effectively become cut off from her children 's education just as Balbinder had been cut off from local peer group relationships . |