Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tells us — largely as he must have heard it from the horse 's mouth — the history of programmed machines , the development of McCarthy 's own interest in combining human common sense with the brute number-crunching force of early computers , and how this led to his own contributions , perhaps the best-known of which is the invention of LISP , now the standard programming language of artificial intelligence . |
| 2 | He must have rescued me from the canal , because my clothes were wet through , so were his … ’ |
| 3 | She must have got it from the room where I keep my guns . |
| 4 | Comforts and consolations may appear to wean us from the gifts to the Giver . |
| 5 | His voice was a mere whisper , but such was the effect of his words on the woman that he might have shouted them from the rooftops . |
| 6 | With the political will we could begin to change it from the time of the first by-election of the present parliament . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps you 'd like to tell us from the beginning , ’ said Montgomery softly . |
| 8 | Could have done it from the front . |
| 9 | The other girls went together in a group but I was on my own , and I suppose someone could have followed me from the dance … |
| 10 | Goering could have shot him from the skies . |
| 11 | Whoever was inside could have seen him from the windows . |
| 12 | It was likely that , just as Theodora had seen the car from the bridal path , Miss Dersingham could have seen it from the House . |
| 13 | I could not help feeling that if we could have had him from the moment of the return of Civil Government Burma would have been in a happier and more disciplined condition , ready to see the real task which the nation would have to face as soon as its political future was decided . |
| 14 | Because perhaps — just perhaps — he was the one who 'd come to rescue her from the clutches of Spiderglass . |
| 15 | My mother 's hotel may have elevated her from the raw stuff of commerce — so much so that she now subscribed to Country Living and other unspecialist periodicals — but the caravan enclosure was decaying anew . |
| 16 | If I 'd not blocked or she 'd not blocked out that time in that way , what would have happened is on the thirteenth , er , of the month , erm , Red would have called me from the Health and Safety Executive would have called me and said , Ricky we 've got er , a remedial leadership weekend on the top of Snowden , and er , on that , on the last weekend of the month , and we 've got a one hour slot for you , that 's just a golden opportunity . |
| 17 | He was one of the most accomplished debaters in the Government but nothing would have saved him from the mauling . |
| 18 | Thomas was sure the other androids would have rescued her from the burning ship but , discovering she was not part of their mission , would then have executed her . |
| 19 | While the exhibition certainly illustrated ways in which fashion and furniture designers could create new products which were exciting , the tastes they displayed and , in the case of many items , the cost of the production would have removed them from the custom and purses of many older people . |
| 20 | " We have n't much line either , " she said , " I shall have to fly it from the stays . " |
| 21 | We ought to have known it from the moment Mrs Thatcher was made a member of the Order of Merit , one of the top 24 in the land . |
| 22 | Even then our marker point will have preserved for us a stability in stratigraphical nomenclature and will have saved us from the utterly wasteful vacillations in opinion and fashion that trouble us today . |
| 23 | Or where do I — can I write down an address on a piece of paper and I will try to mail them from the hotel . |
| 24 | I can try to get it from the British embassy in Moscow . ’ |