Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] from [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.

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1 For a sensational week he published a news-sheet which libelled everyone from the governor 's wife to the assistant chaplain , including both together .
2 Well , your mother came rushing in from the car with a rare display of energy and snatched it from the fellow 's hands .
3 Staff from the general practices collected their vaccines from the central office , while health clinics received theirs from the district 's transport service .
4 They abandoned the ride and walked instead in the shade of the trees beside the track , but although this protected them from the sun 's rays the leaden heat was everywhere and there was no escaping it .
5 Hospital doctors , with some marvellous exceptions , have clung to old patterns of training where the doctor protected himself from the patient 's feelings of panic and terror in the face of illness and death .
6 It was the same man who followed me from the doctor 's surgery .
7 It is regrettable that the judge heard nothing from the appellants ' side , despite the fact that they were represented — no oral evidence , no affidavit evidence , not even an address in mitigation .
8 Having discounted that source , Allen next heard it from the horse 's mouth .
9 Three guys hijacked it from the Company 's yard but I saw then and climbed into the refridgeration unit at the back .
10 Took it from the captain 's cabin . ’
11 Louis did not at all resemble Dahl 's amiable dream dispenser as Preston remembered him from the twins ' illustrated paperback .
12 You do n't know whether he did it from an entrepreneur 's point of view , or from er
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