Example sentences of "[verb] obtained from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may also have obtained from Popes Leo III and Paschal I privileges giving him control of all the monasteries he had acquired . |
| 2 | Aethelheard , abbot of Louth in Lindsey , who became archbishop of Canterbury in 792 , may have been seen in Kent as a ‘ symbol of Mercian rule ’ , but he appears to have obtained from Offa a confirmation of the immunity of Kentish churches ( CS 848 : S 134 ) 52 and he presided without Hygeberht over a synod at London attended by most of the bishops of southern England ( CS 265 : S 132 ) . |
| 3 | Of equal importance , it can be argued , to the Vietminh cause was the half-dozen Colt 45s which Ho had obtained from US sources , together with a signed photograph of the US 14th Airforce Commander , General Chennault . |
| 4 | The senate decreed that B could not be asked to institute C heir : yet it appeared that in this way A had asked that B should make over A 's estate to C , that is to make over to him whatever B had obtained from A 's estate . |
| 5 | Sidacai went out through the door , and Jehan speared another segment of apple and ate it while he considered how far the agreement which he had obtained from Sidacai could be trusted . |
| 6 | This was because by then he had written The Origin where he had argued that primitive society was classless , on the evidence he had obtained from Morgan . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's the Lennox girl , Steve , ’ said Papa Grimwood , checking the photograph he had obtained from INCUBUS HQ in the West End . |