Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [pos pn] [noun pl] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The election of a unashamedly right-wing leader , John Smith , should free its members from the loyalty oaths of the Kinnock era , particularly if shadow cabinet jobs are crudely dished out to his supporters . |
| 2 | In a month when Harpers & Queen magazine devotes several pages to the lost art of manners , it may seem strange that parents should send their daughters from the most polite nation in the world to this newly graceless country . |
| 3 | The attitude that smoking is anti-social is gaining currency among the more articulate , better educated and more aware groups in society , but the vicious corollary is that the tobacco and advertising industries must get their recruits from the lower end of the socio-economic scale . |
| 4 | She many times desired that the crucifix should loosen His hands from the Cross , and embrace her in token of love . ’ |
| 5 | Stay tonight , too , I can find you everything you need overnight , and we 'll fetch your things from the pub tomorrow . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You can help Claudia , Dana , and then we 'll collect your things from the hotel , though you seem to have bought a fresh wardrobe . ’ |
| 7 | Angie made a tiny , delicate gesture , her hand moving upwards and outwards , as if she might gather his words from the air and muffle them . |
| 8 | Normally we 'd buy our meals from the downstairs kitchen , but for breakfast we had our own food so we did n't have to get up till late . |
| 9 | There is no record of its occupying caves at any time , but it must always be remembered that a woodland species in cave country could drop its pellets from the tree in which it is roosting to fall into or near cave openings , so that even without entering a cave the pellets of such a predator could accumulate inside the cave ( see p. 96 ) . |
| 10 | He could recognize their trades from the clothes they were wearing — dyers , carpenters , wheelwrights , masons , stevedores up from the docks , and several cordwainers : the spikes in their hands looked like daggers . |
| 11 | She could hear their voices from the sitting room . |
| 12 | He 'd tell him , he 'd get his orders from the office , cos the Deputy Harbourmaster he would go down all the sound he sound in river and see what wanted taken out , then he 'd say to my father I 'll dredge at so and so belo below docksill and docksill what they used to do they used to , my father what he 'd do he 'd put stakes on the mud , a short stake and a long stake on account of the tide and he 'd , he 'd make an imaginary on that stake , then he 'd go ashore at Wolverston , phone up what have you got on your docksill , the fella might say it 's ten feet , well he 'd say right we 'll make that twenty feet , so that 's er , that 's what he used to work on to dredge the river . |
| 13 | In this way , you could increase your benefits from the Plan . |
| 14 | The emphasis on animals as endangered species may take its roots from the historical preferences of naturalists and scientists . |
| 15 | As explained above , the commercial banks ' cash reserves are reduced so that they may recall their loans from the discount houses . |
| 16 | I will keep my hands from the English — any and all but one , ’ he said grimly . |
| 17 | Also , if the deceased person leaves any estate , the local authority will claim its expenses from the legal personal representative . |
| 18 | Within a matter of moments , the computer will indicate which of the three shade-groups you suit , from Warm to Cool to Neutral , and you can choose your products from the corresponding colour sections on display . |
| 19 | We can take our examples from the sea hare Aplysia ( see p. 36 ) . |
| 20 | If you can raise your eyes from the water long enough you 'll see that the scenery is more than a match for the fishing — it 's simply breathtaking . |