Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [to-vb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | AS FOR the government 's negotiating strategy , Harkabi forecast that nothing would scare the ‘ extremists ’ like a readiness to talk from the other side . |
| 2 | They only had to drop a wizened bean over their shoulders for a plant to spurt from the ground and rain pods at them . |
| 3 | Thus it would be perfectly possible for a sexist to argue from the very findings reported in this chapter that women make poor leaders and high-pressure salespersons because of their lack of assertiveness , whereas they make good carers ( nurses , home helps and so on ) because of their sensitivity to the needs of other people in conversation . |
| 4 | You click on to the icons with a mouse to go from the word processor to a spreadsheet or to send a fax . |
| 5 | He had many of the qualities of an inspiring leader ; for he combined a keen intellect with an ability to speak from the heart ; and over and above that the power to make up his mind and to decide . |
| 6 | Cattle stealing provided certain groups in rural areas with an opportunity to benefit from the economic changes along the coast and in the central highlands , but it did not long survive as an organized business once a district was penetrated deeply by plantations . |
| 7 | The proposals were given a cautious welcome by politicians on the left , but the right-wing parties decried them as an attempt to distract from the President 's and the government 's current unpopularity . |
| 8 | In two closely argued and provocative essays Alfred Rieber claimed that the object of the emancipation was not even to benefit the gentry ( let alone the peasantry ) , but rather to put the principal institutions of the autocracy , the treasury and the army , in a position to recover from the ravages of the Crimean War . |
| 9 | On the other hand , other regions may well be in a position to benefit from the discovery of natural resource stocks such as oil and gas . |
| 10 | The group to jump , known as a stick , hooked up and shuffled in a line to exit from the side door . |
| 11 | Four Cabinet Ministers , on the advice of the Attorney-General , signed declarations in an attempt to keep from the court documents which would have cleared the men . |
| 12 | She said her colleague , PC Mark Whitehouse , 25 , had reversed the car in an attempt to escape from the gunman , but he had crashed into a fence . |
| 13 | Ken Gilbert , area manager Water & Ventilation was challenged by a friend to walk from the Irish Sea to the North Sea last winter . |