Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] from [pron] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Positivists believe in the doctrine of determinism : human beings , including criminals , do not act from their own free will but are impelled to act by forces beyond their control . |
| 2 | One of the few things he could instantly recall from his own brief marriage was his wife 's grilling a kipper on a gridiron over the fire . |
| 3 | Both Soviet and American leaders , by the late 1980s , had a common interest in a negotiated end to the Iran-Iraq war and in an international agreement guaranteeing freedom of movement in the Persian Gulf , but neither could necessarily manipulate events in the region to its advantage and neither , perhaps , quite understood the nature of a popular movement so far removed from its own cultural assumptions . |
| 4 | Under this new dispensation things foreign and far removed from our own polluted urban world acquire all exotic piquancy , an exciting glamour , which causes them to be approached with a mixture of reverence and hope . |
| 5 | But no news is good news , and Mr Clarke has been drawing some comfort from the fact that he has n't heard from his own local family doctor . |
| 6 | You ca n't shield from me any more . |
| 7 | I do n't think Jennifer even hears from them any more … it 's sad really how people just do n't want to know … ’ |
| 8 | The reaction of the urban proletariat was natural ; one can not safely deduce from it any decisive change in attitude towards death and survival . |