Example sentences of "[pron] could [verb] [pron] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I spent two years in the mother and baby home , then , and decided that if I was going to stay in social work , then I would erm be better a able to help people if I could do it from the theoretical background as well as the feeling erm background er of my own my own personal feelings . |
| 2 | Maybe , maybe maybe I could do it from the theatre , would , would help |
| 3 | I could read it from the Oxford |
| 4 | I was n't listening , but I could hear it from the dining room . |
| 5 | ‘ I could see them from the window in that place . |
| 6 | ‘ No , you did n't have to , you little bitch ; I could see it from the minute we arrived ! |
| 7 | If only someone could release her from the shackles of loving Adam as easily , she thought ruefully . |
| 8 | I was thinking of asking Monica if she could record something from the the Model Car Club and |
| 9 | The first thing she would have to do was to raise some capital so that she could rescue something from the dregs of her father 's business . |
| 10 | She could read nothing from the parchment of his face . |
| 11 | He had the passenger door open before she could free herself from the seatbelt . |
| 12 | You could smell it from the far side of the room through its Father Christmas wrapping paper . |
| 13 | ‘ You could watch them from the window , ’ he says . |
| 14 | The north-east was no place to refine one 's art , but the money was good ( if you could prise it from the agent ) and it widened my working circle ( if you survived . ) |
| 15 | You could keep it from the women , the hidden story of the cells and the cemeteries , of the club and the castor oil bottle . |
| 16 | But even at 2–0 , we felt we could get something from the game . |
| 17 | Only a small proportion of his men were actually with him now , others coming in singly and in groups as they could disentangle themselves from the embroilment . |
| 18 | The whirlwind raged at the window … but although they strained to listen , they could hear nothing from the corridor beyond . |
| 19 | And every so often erm the British look at this with a rather interested eye , and you 'll find that erm Parliamentary committees erm there was one on the British Civil Service about two years , three years ago , nineteen seventy-seven , they went over to France to have a look at how the French did this to see if they could learn anything from the French experience , but in fact it 's very difficult to transport somebody else 's experience , lock , stock and barrel , into the British situation , and they quite sensibly concluded this would n't be a good idea . |
| 20 | Frankie wriggled free so that he could remove himself from the confrontation . |
| 21 | They were fairly clumsy devices and only offered security from one side : anyone could unlock them from the other side . |