Example sentences of "they [verb] from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Irish Guards would give them support from the right flank , while the Welsh would advance from the left . |
| 2 | It has the advantage for believers of saving them from having to invent their own personal neurosis , and they gain from the social nature of religion rather than the purely private character of a personal neurosis . |
| 3 | Unfortunately they suffer from the main drawback of such elite forces : such exceptional warriors are rare . |
| 4 | ‘ All they want from the wrecked car is the log book , which they can transfer to the stolen car , ’ says Mr Sloan . |
| 5 | They ranged from the modest puffing of his travel book by a visiting American author on Radio 4 to the screening of pre-launch films about the making of big budget movies such as Gandhi . |
| 6 | They crashed from the raised platform at the stern , down among the feet , of the rowers who hastily jumped out of their way . |
| 7 | We will end the present Government 's policy of clawing back from local authorities amounts equivalent to those they receive from the European Community 's regional development fund . |
| 8 | But none of the regional clubs will quantify how much they earn from the lucrative Clubcall telephone commentaries . |
| 9 | They range from the spiral wound glass fibre/epoxy type which , being black , are sometimes confused with the carbon shafts . |
| 10 | They range from the basic spar endcaps we have already mentioned to dihedral joints , three and four way plug-in joiners , sail-clips and , for the carbon tubes , the arrow nocks and tube sleeves for joining . |
| 11 | They range from the lone back-packer who stuffs a volume of Descartes into the pocket of her shorts and forgets to take spare socks , to the package holiday-maker who packs a change of silk shirt for every evening he is going to be away . |
| 12 | Instead they issue from the divided heart of humanity , perpetually institutionalised in sinful social and political structures . |
| 13 | And , as they issue from the illumined pile , |
| 14 | By and large they fell in happily with the exhortations they received from the Arab world not to take any unauthorized political initiatives . |
| 15 | In the north-west , too , in Galicia , the rebels quickly triumphed , thanks to the assistance they received from the Civil Guard in overcoming the resistance of loyal troops and civilians . |
| 16 | As for the clothes , money and jewellery sported by many locals , they came from the gruesome supply of drowned bodies that were washed ashore each morning on the high tide . |
| 17 | Although there is no precise information about the provenance of all of these finds , it is reasonable to assume that they came from the original excavation of the ‘ villa ’ or from adjacent sites . |
| 18 | The berries grow on low vines in damp , marshy ground , but they also thrive in the sandy hills along the coastline of New England where they benefit from the salty spray of the sea . |
| 19 | When the seals , which belonged to Rose Cuthbert , were stolen the police said they dated from the pre-Ming dynasty . |
| 20 | Therefore , the assessments which the neighbourhood police give of how much support they obtain from the Catholic community ( or , more accurately , how much support they see the majority of Catholics as feeling able safely to show ) , vary depending on wider circumstances and the time-scale used . |
| 21 | Although many of his patients were , statistically speaking , ‘ abnormal ’ , that is , they differed from the average person in their group , they were nearer to the ‘ normal ’ in the evaluative sense , that is , in having some rational understanding of themselves . |
| 22 | One way of making it more difficult for the Community Charge Registration Officers to trace people will be if they disappear from the electoral register . |
| 23 | Benjamin and Elizabeth and their family belonged , in effect , to what we might choose to call the ‘ comfortable working class ’ ; they benefited from the general rise in Britain 's prosperity in Victorian times — cheaper food and clothing , better sanitation , faster transport , more substantial housing — but their money still had to be earned , had to be worked for . |
| 24 | It may or may not result in the board of the offeror company retaining control , depending on the voting rights they control and the support they get from the enlarged body of shareholders . |
| 25 | I hope that people will look at the real record of improvement in the NHS , not the misrepresentations that they get from the Labour party . |
| 26 | Players should be made to work hard for anything they get from the old Ghost . |
| 27 | Both were said to be of no fixed abode , although they originate from the Old Swan district of Liverpool . |
| 28 | Both defendants were said to be of no fixed abode , although they originate from the Old Swan district of Liverpool . |
| 29 | They started from the front row on Sunday , Senna having produced his usual stunning lap to take pole , Prost following through in the Ferrari with a lap notable for its customary smoothness and precision . |
| 30 | When these enterprises do manage to take hold the next key question is the extent to which they hire from the local community and from disadvantaged groups ( e.g. the long-term unemployed ) . |