Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 so they 're doing it from the age of possibly eight or nine some people , certainly down right the way through
2 Oh , 'cos they 're taking it from the East Coast feed .
3 We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh .
4 They cover topics including goods selling in and out ( which stores are buying what from the manufacturer in what quantity , and how quickly consumers are then buying that product ) or what type of product consumers are buying , and they give comparisons between brands in particular categories , for example soft drinks , analgesics , breakfast cereals , and almost anything in fact .
5 The people of Israel are thought of as a people chosen by God who are to separate themselves from the rest of the peoples of the earth by a series of laws that distinguish the holy time ( sabbath ) from profane time , clean foods from unclean foods , clean from unclean bodily states and holy from unholy places .
6 And then I 'm pulling you from the bed and him .
7 Ryzhkov made no mention of a referendum in his address on May 24 , however , and subsequently officials appeared to be distancing themselves from the idea .
8 BIG Brother will be watching you from the end of this week when spy cameras start to operate in north-east Essex .
9 No , I would have had to have been snatching them from the cradle then .
10 ‘ And you were fighting me from the moment we met again . ’
11 I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start .
12 She turned her back on him , praying that he would not touch her , her throat so tight now with tears that it seemed to be closing , her chest feeling as if frantic hands were hammering it from the inside , bursting it — in several raw , sore places — wide open .
13 Now Koquillion claims he is protecting them from the wrath of his people .
14 And signing on and signing off … the goalie who 's saved himself from the dole queue
15 But he can only get a hundred pound back if he 's get it from the bank .
16 The wholesaler 's only sanction against non-cooperating members is to expel them from the group , whereas in the case of the variety multiples a recalcitrant manager can be quickly removed .
17 All you 're doing is taking them from the objection , which is , well , we 're not prepared to give a decision , take them from that objection to where you want them do it with me , can you do it ?
18 The first thing the three must do is disentangle themselves from the past .
19 He 's taking us from the airport to what is locally down as the Darth Vader Hotel .
20 It 's to remove you from the source of this , and that is the school you 're working in .
21 As they returned to Swinbrook on Grye , the gipsy horse , the trees of Wychwood closed in about them and Carrie imagined the sadly diminished yet still proud forest was protecting them from the rest of the world .
22 Oh , I was writing it from the board actually .
23 Oh it was bought it from the Christmas , two ninety nine from .
24 I dreamt that my mother was calling me from the bottom of a deep , deep well .
25 For all the tact of his dealings with the army , his words and policies in the summer of 1958 plainly showed that de Gaulle was disassociating himself from the ideology of integration — i.e. integration of Algeria into France — that many officers favoured .
26 Yet many party supporters were outraged by this betrayal of the Whig tradition , and the very fact that the issue of liberty of conscience could now be given a low priority in the party agenda is perhaps indicative of the beginnings of the process whereby Whiggery was to divorce itself from the cause of Dissent .
27 It was believed someone from the Academy was helping Mann with the finance and distribution of the drugs .
28 Or , if the Prince of Wales was to remove himself from the line of succession , that would be a grave matter .
29 It must have seemed to them that Marian and Allen had perished in the flames and their own immediate concern was to remove themselves from the danger of the roof falling in on their heads and from the certain consequence that so conspicuous a fire in the night would be seen by the outlaws and would sooner or later bring them to the scene .
30 She was lowering herself from the tip-toe that she needed to look over the panelled backing of the window display when something else caught her eye , further down the road .
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