Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] from the [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 While I do not want to detract from the bilinguals ' versatility or the value of their multicultural experience , I will argue in this chapter that in fact monolinguals have broadly the same range of linguistic " powers " as bilinguals have , though sometimes these are manifested in other ways .
2 I do n't I thin I think there 's probably a lot lot less sexism just in terms of I think we 've won their respect by you know and and certainly when th they did n't want us to picket in the beginning , and then over the months really the women have done quite a lot of successful picketing when we 've been asked and and we 've staged quite big pickets quite a lot of you know the big pickets were really organized and the rallies have been organized by us and really sort of quite a lot of the input into into the strike I think has come from the women 's support group in in quite a unique way .
3 I think she 'd knitted it herself out of old pieces of string she 'd saved from the children 's birthday presents . ’
4 Assuming that no mature way can be found to speak from the workers ' culture or meaning system , as opposed to breaking it down and imposing on it other meaning systems such as that espoused by management , then passive individuals will be fostered .
5 So even if it managed to escape from the scientists ' clutches in Britain , it could not turn into another exotic pest , like the mink in Britain or the rabbit in Australia .
6 He often brought her scraps he had filched from the instructors ' table .
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