Example sentences of "which [pers pn] [verb] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The movies are true , ’ screamed my eyes from the back of the yellow can which I took from the airport . |
| 2 | So the impression which I get from the locals , is that they 'll be happier when the flats are down . |
| 3 | The figures actually which I got from the director yesterday are that the department is counting four hundred and ten vacancies of those four hundred and ten , two hundred and thirty four are out of commission , they 're in homes being refurbished seventy two are in blocked places , that is double rooms being lived in by a widow or widower where er they 'd previously shared it with the spouse or er disability reasons , health reasons , behaviour reasons of a resident er in a previously shared room . |
| 4 | The rain which I collect from the downpipe often has debris in it from the guttering . |
| 5 | The group suggested some amendments to a draft motion which I proposed from the chair ; the amended motion was then signed en bloc with only two colleagues declining . |
| 6 | … The principle which I deduce from the authorities I have cited and the other relevant authorities which I have considered , is that if the cause or matter is one which , if carried to its conclusion , might result in the conviction of the person charged and in a sentence of some punishment , such as imprisonment or fine , it is a ‘ criminal cause or matter . ’ |
| 7 | I 've got a beautiful set of little Pierrot clowns , which I bought from the art department of the last mini-series I worked on — Golden Fiddles . |
| 8 | ‘ What I 'm not prepared to do is commit myself to the club beyond that , until such time as a final plan , which I understand from the chairman was agreed in principle by all directors on Saturday night , has been formally ratified by all board members . |
| 9 | Instead of using wide elastic in the waistband I used ‘ Peta-Stretch ’ stretch petersham which I buy from the haberdashery department of my local store . |
| 10 | The letter which you received from the Director of Education will have told you the reason for the Council 's decision to refuse a place at the school(s) you wanted your child to go to . |
| 11 | The track which you follow from the village of Gavarnie to the cirque is necessarily a good , well-worn one , almost a road for much of the journey , through beech woods and then across open grasslands , before the last rough and rocky stretch up into the mouth of the cirque . |
| 12 | Play him or her you can explain the results which you want from the session and the engineer can advise you on any extra equipment which you may need to hire . |
| 13 | Jane Austen may seem in Sense and Sensibility to join with Edward in preferring cottages in good repair , even at the cost of the picturesque ; but on another occasion , in Northanger Abbey , she appears to side with Catherine , who is so delighted by the view of ‘ a sweet little cottage ’ among apple trees which she sees from the windows of the parsonage at Woodston that her enthusiasm even saves it from demolition . |
| 14 | She was highly critical , however , of the terms under which the League of Nations was set up in 1919 , partly because the League was permitted the use of force and economic sanctions , and partly because it was committed to supporting the Versailles settlement , which she regarded from the start as an unjust and unstable peace . |
| 15 | The group , which she directs from the harpsichord , specialise in 18th Century music which they play on period instruments . |
| 16 | At last she found the exit at the far end of the enormous shed , and burst out into a dark courtyard , littered with the hulks of abandoned machinery , which she remembered from the morning . |
| 17 | Her real destination was Fleet Street and the offices of the weekly Clarion Cry , but she could hardly inform Dr Neil or Matey of that interesting fact — it did n't quite fit the sad picture which she had drawn of the friendless , abandoned orphan without employment — not that the money which she earned from the Clarion would have kept her . |
| 18 | We have oil in the North Sea which we are just wasting , we have gas which we get from the North Sea which we do n't quite know what to do with it . |
| 19 | The high level of activity at Enron gas fired power station contract — which we serviced from the Middlesbrough Depot — and the increasing tempo of work in the Gulf where we deployed a significant amount of our special plant , tower cranes and hoists to Dubai , and heavy crawler cranes to the Mina Qaboos harbour job in Muscat . |
| 20 | This year we are faced with considerable financial difficulty since the grant which we receive from the Sports Council towards our administration expenses has been cut . |
| 21 | The Cattle of the Cottagers are impounded when the Forest is driven by the Keepers , as all other Cattle are ; and when the Owners take them from the Pound ( paying the usual Fees to the Keepers ) they turn them again into the Forest , having no other Means of maintaining them … the Cottagers … are detrimental to the Forest , by cutting Wood for Fuel , and for building Huts , and making Fences to the Patches which they inclose from the Forest ; by keeping Pigs , Sheep etc. in the Forest all the Year ; and by stealing Timber . |
| 22 | But , for all that effort and the manner in which they attacked from the kick-off , I believe they deserved that try . |
| 23 | Modern farmers are often accused of ‘ soil-mining ’ rather than farming — of not replacing the fertility which they extract from the soil by a balanced rotation of crop and animal husbandry . |
| 24 | The qualities of initiative , responsibility and loyalty which they demanded from the soldier were very different from the passive obedience and mechanical discipline typified by the army of Frederick II ( which , significantly , found it difficult to create units of this kind ) . |
| 25 | He believed , however , that in the short run — whatever time that might be — they had much to gain ‘ from the support and strength which they derive from the CNAA ’ — and a look at American accreditation had reinforced his view . |
| 26 | Some of them have been invited again and again to meet the London ambulance service for a briefing other than that which they get from the trade union . |
| 27 | Their Bible appears in only one edition , the highly successful New International Version , which they licensed from the world 's largest bible publishers , Zondervan . |
| 28 | Such as the attack which they mounted from the countryside of the city of Chang Sha which is also in this er in the same sort of area where the old er where the Communist Party had had its main strength . |
| 29 | In taking into account the user of the vehicle which they actually found or which they inferred from the practice of the previous owner it seems to me they did not err . |
| 30 | A good number of people have purchased the houses in which they live from the Local Authority or New Town Development Corporations under the provisions of the Housing Act 1985 . |