Example sentences of "from [verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trick in bringing about a change in attitudes towards marketing is to go after the easy stuff first , there is nothing to be gained from knocking your head against a brick wall . |
| 2 | And much the same process of intensification at the edges goes on in The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ) , where another little boy is prevented by his possessive and emotionally repressed father from developing his relationship with a gardener . |
| 3 | As Brightman J said in United Sterling Corp Ltd v Felton and Mannion [ 1974 ] RPC 162 " This contractual obligation of fidelity … may prevent a skilled employee from giving his assistance to a competitor despite the fact that such assistance is provided by the employee in his own time and despite the fact that no information has been disclosed to the employees in confidence " . |
| 4 | Fleury , Ford , Burlton , and half a dozen Sikhs , were digging a series of fougasses ( holes dug slant-wise in the ground and filled with a charge of powder and stones ) , again with the intention of preventing the sepoys from converting their retreat into a rout . |
| 5 | In order to show that a landlord is precluded from exercising his right to call for a rent review , the tenant must show that the lease or the rent review clause has been abrogated by mutual consent or that the landlord 's conduct has been such that he is estopped from exercising his right to a rent review ( Amherst v Walker ( James ) Goldsmith & Silversmith Ltd [ 1983 ] 2 All ER 1067 ) . |
| 6 | So , although you are discouraged from dropping your bottom as a beginner , it is very useful when the wind increases in handling the extra pull . |
| 7 | I touched his arm , but apart from deepening his frown for a second he did n't pay any attention . |
| 8 | A WOMAN barred from taking her dog into a shopping centre in Uxbridge , Middlesex , returned with a horse — and was thrown out again . |
| 9 | Defeated in the 1922 general election for Dáil Éireann , she secured a seat in Dublin in the 1923 election but abstained from taking her seat as a Sinn Fein republican . |
| 10 | Burnell toiled to a 75 , while Hutt , who birdied two of the first three holes after lunch , then took seven at the 4th , including two penalty strokes from grounding his club in a water hazard . |
| 11 | Not tranquillisers — no one benefits from making their life into a cotton wool ball . |
| 12 | In my attempt at a wide-angled overview , however , I shall argue that the camera has not just two but many sides , and that feminist film criticism and theory can only benefit from casting its eye outside a field of vision in which the theory of the gaze and questions of representation and power have been dominant for too long . |
| 13 | In the second period the Wildcats came back strongly , clawing back the deficit … but not enough to stop the Milton Keynes Kings from crowning their day with a 12-8 victory |