Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [noun] from [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something important was eluding her , and until she 'd worked out what it was she did n't want to demand an explanation from him . |
| 2 | Business in Scotland has received a boost from our creation of Scottish Enterprise and the Local Enterprise Companies . |
| 3 | Mrs Mandela will appear in court on the 24th of September ; the attorney general says he has received an undertaking from her lawyer that she will cooperate with the investigation and she will not be taken into custody . |
| 4 | With a medical expert who is not the treating doctor you will need to include an authority from your client that they can see the hospital notes and the general practitioner 's notes . |
| 5 | I do n't think I know anyone who has made a fortune from their knitting machine , but then they are not likely to tell me if they have a yacht in the Mediterranean and a villa in the south of France , are they ? |
| 6 | He has got a tan from his Christmas holiday . |
| 7 | So far radicalism both in defining lawyers as controllers of individual clients and in defining them as controllers because of the ideological discourse which they sell has reached a position from which only negative statements can be made : lawyers do n't help , they control ; professionalism does not protect clients , it defeats them . |
| 8 | The difference between these nodes is the degree to which the reader thinks the author has provided a text from which some meaning is recoverable . |
| 9 | Then Stren was in front of them , his sword appearing to materialise an inch from their throats without having to pass through the intervening air . |
| 10 | This reads as follows : If a settlor who has taken a loan from his settlement and has been charged to tax under the legislation repays the loan the tax previously charged is not of course repaid . |
| 11 | Ms Robins said : ‘ It has been a challenge and everybody has learned a lot from it . |
| 12 | If my right hon. and learned Friend believes in cause and effect , will he assure the House that he has learnt a lesson from it and that not only investment in but the subsidy to British Rail will be maintained to provide the service that people expect from the railways as we approach the end of the century ? |
| 13 | On May 14 a group of up to 300 Army officers and military cadets protesting against the independence declaration tried to push their way into the Supreme Soviet building , and clashed briefly with police and independence supporters before dispersing when Gorbunovs agreed to receive a petition from them . |
| 14 | According to some views ( e.g. , Gough , 1972 ) skilled reading involves translating a word from its visual to its phonological representation prior to recognising it , and such translation would require the use of a mechanism which could also translate printed non-words into phonological form . |
| 15 | This time we hope to stimulate a reaction from you all by saying ‘ NO MEDAU MAGAZINE IN 1979/80 ’ . |
| 16 | The sand is so hot and dry that in many places no bush or clump of grass can grow to provide a signpost from which to take bearings . |
| 17 | Some years ago now , my husband came to choose a painting from you and you made an offer to help CPRW in any way you could . |
| 18 | I knew I 'd had a letter from him then , because it was the last time we were apart before he was called up . ’ |
| 19 | He telephoned me one evening to tell me that the Labour Party had decided to use an extract from it in their manifesto . |
| 20 | The basis for selection of materials varies between mainly content based criteria ( e.g. what scientific knowledge and ways of thinking are most appropriate to the present and subsequent experience of the child ) , and mainly process based criteria ( e.g. what thought processes are necessary for a primary child to develop and what knowledge and experience must therefore be selected to form a content from which this development can best be effected ) . |
| 21 | He was asked to wait and then shown into a room where a detective sergeant prepared to take a statement from him . |
| 22 | Passionately anxious to serve Carlotta , he undertakes to take a message from her to Don Manuel , at a time when he and his followers are seriously threatened by the dictator . |
| 23 | WHILE trimming its expenditure by £200,000 mainly by reducing staff bills Sedgefield District Council refuses to cut a penny from its chairman 's hospitality allowance . |
| 24 | Ever since being given a large stalk of them at the end of last summer , I have been wanting to make a design from them . |
| 25 | No sooner had the door closed than Mona , released from the tension of his presence , let slip a plate from her hands . |
| 26 | Here was I , struggling to free a walnut from its convoluted enclosure , exalting when at last I managed to obtain a whole half rather than a handful of shards , while in the next room was a packet replete with whole halves . |
| 27 | She did not observe Eochaid , therefore , as he sat quietly watching the King with his stepson , or hear Lulach say , smiling , ‘ You would like to shoot an apple from my head , like Palnatoke , and perhaps miss . |
| 28 | He entered the room with the pop-eyed , lock-jawed expression of one who was expecting to hear a death-sentence from his commanding officer , but he cracked into smiles of various kinds when he heard we were to be his proteges . |
| 29 | They interrupt because they are unwilling to let pass a remark from which an intricate leap can be performed . |
| 30 | Which basically I mean she 's had so she thought it would be nice for her to get away just to sort of sa you know have a breather from it all . |