Example sentences of "from what [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is not really necessary to understand exactly what imaginary time is — just that it is different from what we call real time . |
| 2 | He took a piece of tracing paper over the old one though and Germanicised it and took it away from what we call Old English . |
| 3 | It is occasionally possible , just for brief moments , to find the words that will unlock the doors of all those many mansions inside the head and express something — perhaps not much , just something — of the crush of the information that presses in on us from the way a crow flies over and the way a man walks and the look of a street and from what we did one day a dozen years ago . |
| 4 | It is now trying to ram through retrospective legislation to undo a decision of the law lords that ought to save Britain 's building societies from what they consider double taxation . |
| 5 | Agency staffers want the Commission to seek a Federal court injunction barring Microsoft from what they consider abusive practices . |
| 6 | Least , I hope it 's good news , from what you said last night , I think it would be good news . |
| 7 | Quine takes his start not from the familiar case but from what he calls radical translation ( see Quine , 1960 , ch. 2 ) . |
| 8 | He used it in his study of primitive religion , and in his study of the change from what he called mechanical solidarity to organic solidarity . |
| 9 | And without any lead-up she said , ‘ From what I gather some people take the mickey out of her down there because of her name , punning it like , and she being a bit fat . |
| 10 | No , from what I said this morning I meant not being there , without realising that |