Example sentences of "get [pron] [noun sg] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legend has it that the bridge got its name from the plaintive cries of the prisoners as they were escorted across it . |
| 2 | It is no surprise to learn that this village got its name from the local industries of smelting silver and iron . |
| 3 | Now that when , as soon as I get my cheque from the British Legion for two hundred , roughly . |
| 4 | Greenwich 's famous clipper ship gets her name from the cutty sark or short chemise ( a loose-fitting dress or under garment ) , which her figure-head wears . |
| 5 | The church gets its name from the adjacent hospice where pilgrims on their way to or from Rome once stayed . |
| 6 | This elongated , rocky finger , which gets its name from the ancient word for dragon , is said to resemble the creature at rest . |
| 7 | With this in mind , the Zipper Club , which gets its name from the distinctive scar left after surgery , aims to help people before , as well as during and after treatment . |
| 8 | It gets its name from the strengthening threads which run across warp and weft to create small squares in the otherwise close-woven nylon . |
| 9 | It gets its name from the Silurian Epoch — a period around 450 million years ago when the rocks which make up the skeleton and the soil of the Grizedale Forest were formed . |
| 10 | The fish gets its name from the unusual formation of the teeth which are elongated on the upper and lower jaws near the middle of the mouth . |
| 11 | The Vampire Plec gets its name from the unusual formation of the teeth which are elongated on the upper and lower jaws near the middle of the mouth . |
| 12 | The hawthorn is the oldest of the hedgerow trees , for it gets its name from the Old English word haga , ‘ a hedge ’ or ‘ an enclosure ’ , and it was used from Saxon times onwards to make impenetrable fences — the hedge-thorn . |
| 13 | It 's a common condition which gets its name from the carpal bones that form a circle at the wrist . |