Example sentences of "could from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot was well aware it was all a business of transmission and reinterpretation of past interpretations as he shows in writing that ‘ Shakespeare acquired more essential history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British Museum . ’ |
| 2 | He had learnt as much as he could from the silly young woman teacher . |
| 3 | When she came with the tray he would slip downstairs and steal what he could from the open shelves in the pantry . |
| 4 | At the end of the negotiations , as he prepared to run off to salvage what he could from the wreckage of the crashed aircraft in Nicaragua , North told the Iranians he had failed in his mission ‘ to start the process of healing between our countries ’ ; the two nations , Iran and America , were about to pass each other like ships in the night . |
| 5 | It grew wedged in a fork of the trees , its roots dangling in the air to trap what nourishment they could from the mists . |
| 6 | En route to the train-tube terminal Jaq comm-called Grimm to carry away as much as he could from the hotel suite , settle their account if challenged , and rendezvous at the Tormentum . |
| 7 | Across the street , sheltering as best he could from the blasts of wind down Park Avenue , Gentle — who 'd returned to his station barely a minute before — caught sight of the doorman scrabbling on the foyer floor . |
| 8 | We were asked to infiltrate the area and retrieve as many documents as we could from the farmhouse . |
| 9 | On the death of a bishop , while his spiritual jurisdiction and income were administered by the dean , or prior , and chapter of the cathedral church , the temporalities of the see — as with any tenant-in-chief during a minority-reverted to the crown for the duration of the vacancy ; they were usually farmed or leased out to the profit of the crown and of the farmers who were naturally inclined to extract as much as they could from the windfall . |
| 10 | Knowing what I do now [ he says ] , I think the DIA was looking for a way to get me back to Beirut to salvage what it could from the Asmar wreck . |
| 11 | But just as Eliot remarked that Shakespeare acquired from Plutarch more essential knowledge than most men could from the whole British Museum , so he himself seemed to have acquired from books like F. S. Oliver 's Endless Adventure an extraordinary grasp of historical movements and tendencies , for example the seventeenth century ‘ disassociation of sensibility ’ was a piece of historical perception which no pure historian would have been able to originate . |
| 12 | Spirits in both cars were high , Margaret scenting battle , her guards taking what pleasure they could from the prospect of a day or two at the seaside . |
| 13 | A row of limp , blank faced figures sat in front of the windows , begging what they could from the steady stream of shoppers . |
| 14 | Sheltering among the rocks , to gather what relief they could from the heat of a sun which beat down remorselessly upon their uncovered heads , they ate their cold lunch in silence . |