Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [noun] from a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wednesday 's injury crisis will ease next week when England striker David Hirst starts his comeback from a cracked ankle . |
| 2 | Marta gets her stocks from a large informal market in Villa El Salvador shanty-town . |
| 3 | The government gets its data from a national survey conducted every five years . |
| 4 | The property takes its name from a small Roman bell which is there to be seen . |
| 5 | But Rock Santeiro , which takes its name from a steamy Brazilian TV soap opera that delighted viewers throughout Portugal 's former African colonies , sits on a rubbish dump on the northern edge of Luanda , the capital of Angola . |
| 6 | There go right to see the Palazzo Erba-Odescalchi , a sumptuous palazzo built by the Cusani family in the early 1500s , although it takes its name from a later Archbishop who used it as his palace in the eighteenth-century . |
| 7 | Hashing , which takes its name from a Malaysian eating house where the hobby originated before World War II , involves running or walking in pursuit of ‘ hares ’ — volunteers who act as the quarry . |
| 8 | The fragrance is beautifully crafted — a subtle blend of jasmine and sandalwood — and the bottle takes its theme from a dancing Buddhist goddess . |
| 9 | Mr Devlin borrows his films from a different shop . |
| 10 | He gets his Fuggles from a leading grower named Tony Redsell at the splendidly-named Mockbeggar Farm near Faversham . |
| 11 | The Great Sancy takes it name from a French ambassador to Turkey who acquired it in Constantinople and on his return to France in 1593 lent it to Henry IV as a pledge for money to pay his troops . |
| 12 | A drunk who takes his orders from a higher source . |
| 13 | It draws its students from a wide variety of subjects , including English , other languages , the social sciences ( psychology , anthropology ) , mathematics , computer science and artificial intelligence . |
| 14 | The Alpe-adria Ensemble , which draws its personnel from a geographical area that covers Central and Eastern Europe , give a strong and hot-blooded account of the Mahler , and are suitably po-faced in the Brahms . |
| 15 | Because he draws his criteria from a particular musical tradition — a ‘ music of thought ’ , characterized by the working out of themes over extended , integrated forms and requiring concentrated , ‘ intellectual ’ listening — he regards other forms of music as either primitive in comparison or as corruptions of this tradition . |
| 16 | The motor is basically a closed-loop hydraulic control system which derives its input from a small conventional electrical stepping motor . |
| 17 | By contrast , education as a system derives its power from a legal , rational understanding that it constitutes an essential social service . |
| 18 | The line being spoken is always in the same spot , so that if he turns his head from a familiar sentence he can be confident that he will be able to pick up again where he left off . |