Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [indef pn] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of water lapping the romantic old stone walls of wharves and warehouses , palaces and towers , there is mud — a pallid dark grey mud , littered with the dunnage of long-dispersed cargoes , bits of broken packing cases , carried up with the tide and brought down again , the rusted frames of worn-out bicycles , the pathetic remnants of somebody 's pram , upside down , its upholstery all gone , motionless , futile wheels apparently beseeching something from the air . |
| 2 | In effect , they are making two claims , one of which I want to call the minor and the major claim , which are not logically necessarily following one from the other . |
| 3 | The Government did nothing and have apparently learnt nothing from the experience . |
| 4 | Imbert has decided not to sell anything from the show because of the poor state of the art market , and with Editions du Regard is publishing a book of the exhibition which will sell , at a loss , for FFr 250 . |
| 5 | He has ruled that the club should not employ anyone from a nation which fought against us . |
| 6 | ‘ If you could dig up a back copy — he gave the date , nine years before ; ‘ — If the worst comes to the worst , just lift one from the Liaison Officer 's back room . ’ |
| 7 | I wanted a space blanket even more , but I could not take anything from the Land Rover for myself until the next settlement . |
| 8 | How , a week after that crazy decision , are we to place confidence in Ministers who talk about policing and crime prevention in our urban and rural communities when they can not tell one from t' other ? |
| 9 | If you should stroll into a pub and meet an analyst and a user talking about work , and you can not tell one from the other , they have probably developed a successful system together . |
| 10 | Because I can not distinguish one from the other it must be a physically identical statement to say that I have a particle " there " and an identical particle " here " . |
| 11 | She walked alone in the silence , hearing her own muted footfalls like echoes of past or future , she could not distinguish one from the other . |
| 12 | One can not directly infer one from the other . |
| 13 | Right draw something from the centre of rotation to the the figure . |
| 14 | Even though he does accept common-sense beliefs , he also accepts something from the philosophers which common sense would not . |
| 15 | I 'm sorry to say I do n't , no , but I very rarely find anybody from the university , with one exception — Homeless in Sussex , I think there are two or three people there . |
| 16 | One called Success After Sixty ( address on page 149 ) now considers anyone from the age of 50 because of early retirement or redundancy , or because some women on finding themselves alone at this age need to find another job . |
| 17 | In one house three spinsters , all younger than fifty , earned only 4s 6d ( 22½p ) between them , but presumably gained something from the rent paid by their lodger , a clay worker on 10s ( 50p ) a week . |
| 18 | Gloves or shoes would effectively protect one from the effects . |
| 19 | I have n't heard anything from the City Council other than two days before the scheme was to be introduced . |
| 20 | I do n't know one from the other by name . |
| 21 | Start it in cold water and reinforce with vegetable trimmings ( do n't use anything from the cabbage family ) . |
| 22 | If she was at a rave , how come we have n't had anything from the patrol cars about it ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Joe wo n't hear anything from the BBC News , ’ Anne said . |
| 24 | The crowd gently goaded him by chanting : ‘ Kenny what 's the score ? ’ and afterwards Dalglish admitted : ‘ I am disappointed we did n't get anything from the match because I thought we played well enough . |
| 25 | All the actors are local people but the company would n't allow anyone from the works was to take part … she says , It was very disappointing initially but in some ways that makes it more important that we should go ahead with the project . |
| 26 | He surely wanted nothing from the wilderness but space to breathe in and to push through . |
| 27 | He opens the door , does something in the car , then takes something from the front . |
| 28 | She set it down on a footstool beside the open fire , then leaned across to take something from a bowl on the mantlepiece and sprinkle it on the burning logs . |
| 29 | erm and it was so successful that they asked us again to do one from the United States |
| 30 | Those not giving evidence that I spoke to found watching the trials a useful experience and felt that they had either learned something from the process or at least , if they were already experienced in giving evidence , received helpful confirmation on points of technique . |