Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had enjoyed bringing him goodies from the kitchen — ends of puddings in one of the dogs ' dishes , the last remains of cakes , meat , bones — only chicken bones , because they were so bad for the dogs . |
| 2 | Shelley promises to lunch with them once she has got her things from the car . |
| 3 | If you 're moving in the winter you will need to protect your houseplants from the cold . |
| 4 | Preston tried to keep his fears from the twins but he also kept them as far from the edges and ends of the platform as he possibly could in case of beast attacks . |
| 5 | The new job was not without its excitements , though , and Thomas greatly enjoyed observing his balloons from the heights of Dundas Castle , West Queensferry . |
| 6 | Yet the number of peasants applying to withdraw their holdings from the commune peaked in 1909 , long before the war , and thereafter underwent a precipitate decline . |
| 7 | Swindon manager John Gorman tried to rally his troups from the touchline but there was no stopping number five … |
| 8 | Kibaki and Jaramogi Oginga Odinga , the veteran opposition leader , one-time Vice-President ( in 1964-66 ) and now leader of FORD-Kenya , were reported on Dec. 31 to have threatened to withdraw their parties from the electoral process , alleging widespread irregularities which they said in a statement were " fast pushing the nation to war " . |
| 9 | Confidence is such that Walker is looking to expand its operations from the US , Canada and UK to the South East and Western Europe to — with announcements to this effect expected in the summer . |
| 10 | Confidence is such that Walker is looking to expand its operations from the US , Canada and UK to the South East and Western Europe — with announcements to this effect expected in the summer . |
| 11 | The only losers if McEnroe fails to overcome his perennial distrust of the media will be the charities to which he has promised to give his winnings from the $6 million tournament he has described as ‘ obscene ’ . |
| 12 | On 20 January 1789 , Eccleston concluded a letter to the editor of the Transactions of the Society of Arts with a postscript : ‘ Mr Moorcroft is a young man of the greatest abilities , and has agreed to turn his thoughts from the practice of physic and surgery , entirely to that of farriery in every branch , provided he can meet with sufficient and certain encouragement in the establishment of a Veterinarian School . |
| 13 | But er , you know , we had simply got to have our things from the Co-op . |
| 14 | The Welsh estates put under Buckingham 's control in this way included the earldom of March and , in case there should be any doubt about Buckingham 's quasi-regal status , the chancellor of the earldom was told to take his orders from the duke . |
| 15 | The Welsh estates put under Buckingham 's control in this way included the earldom of March and , in case there should be any doubt about Buckingham 's quasi-regal status , the chancellor of the earldom was told to take his orders from the duke . |
| 16 | At first they climbed to the heights to look down on Nature or to survey the scene — encouraging the building of ‘ stations ’ such as the Windermere Octagon ; but after Thomas Gray 's Journal of a Tour in the Lakes ( written in 1769 ) artists began to take their views from the valleys . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , I do know , ’ she said , rising to collect her things from the kitchen where she had left them , ‘ but I have no intention of obliging the Master further , either now , or in the future . ’ |
| 18 | We began to collect our books from the table . |
| 19 | But I felt at home ; and I made a splendid collection of Italian cafe napkins , their corners printed with emblems of the past glory of Ninfania : the Cupid stringing his bow to let fly his darts from the prow in the cafe of the old harbour , and a selection — even I was defeated by the variety — of ice cream wrappers : ‘ Cooky Delight ’ and ‘ Bikini Manhattan ’ and ‘ Magnum Astoria ’ and ‘ Desiree ’ , ‘ Party Craze ’ and ‘ Magic Cola ’ , ‘ Oasis ’ and ‘ Grand Carre ’ , ‘ Card Game ’ and ‘ Tiffany ’ . |
| 20 | IN THE MENDIPS , A SHEEP FARMER IS STRUGGLING TO PROTECT HIS LAMBS FROM THE FOXES THAT WATCH AND PREY . |
| 21 | Having won their votes from the gullible , as well as the dedicated , the republicans now show their utter contempt for democracy . |
| 22 | Finally in November 1935 the Committee decided to withdraw its members from the ILP and to join the Communist Party . |
| 23 | I went to a meeting and they asked if I would try to get them contacts from the West , ’ said Mrs Charlton . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll have to get my things from the camp , and say goodbye to the Lennoxes and a few others . ’ |
| 25 | Generally speaking , it is easier to learn and use the keyboard equivalents of the mouse movements to activate menus as it saves having to remove your hands from the keyboard . |
| 26 | He was president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace when Whittaker Chambers , a renegade and self-confessed Communist ‘ spy ’ then on the staff of Time magazine , accused him of having passed him documents from the State Department during the late 1930s . |
| 27 | It was I who decided to remove our troops from the Gulf , because I thought they 'd become more of an irritant than a stabilising factor . |
| 28 | He did n't bother to lift his eyes from the task in hand . |
| 29 | Only Preston managed to save its commons from the vultures , and to transform some of them eventually into public parks . |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't be silly ; you know nothing about my career , pursued or otherwise , and I wish you 'd go away , ’ she added peevishly as she finally managed to drag her eyes from the grey warmth of his . |