Example sentences of "they [verb] from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But police in Foxboro , Massa-chusetts , said there was less trouble than they expected from the 50,000 crowd . |
| 3 | Schools were asked to indicate the kind of support they requested from the various agencies . |
| 4 | Unfortunately they suffer from the main drawback of such elite forces : such exceptional warriors are rare . |
| 5 | ‘ All they want from the wrecked car is the log book , which they can transfer to the stolen car , ’ says Mr Sloan . |
| 6 | Vale dominated the first 45 minutes against a Stockport side they dismissed from the second division play-off last Wednesday . |
| 7 | Mrs Nicholson meanwhile was doing rather well in her beautician business and when Jack was five they moved from the less-salubrious surroundings of Sixth Avenue in Neptune to Fifth Avenue in Neptune City which was , as Jack recognized years later , a slightly better position for a young boy . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They crashed from the raised platform at the stern , down among the feet , of the rowers who hastily jumped out of their way . |
| 10 | They fled from the marauding Malays of earlier times ; they flee from the approach of any stranger today ; they flee from any imagined threatening event or confrontation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Consumers equate the gross price to the value of the marginal benefit they receive from the last film , but producers equate the marginal cost of films to the lower net-of-tax price of films . |
| 13 | But none of the regional clubs will quantify how much they earn from the lucrative Clubcall telephone commentaries . |
| 14 | They range from the impressive Eric Jones-Evans and Alan Tagg collections to a small but exquisite ( and previously unknown ) portrait of Ellen Terry , painted when this legendary actress was at the start of her career in Bristol and presented to the Collection by the artist 's granddaughter . |
| 15 | Comprising over 500 photographs , they range from the earliest daguerrotypes to contemporary compositions by such photographers as Lartigue , Erwitt , Doisneau , Horst and Wegman . |
| 16 | They range from the spiral wound glass fibre/epoxy type which , being black , are sometimes confused with the carbon shafts . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Instead they issue from the divided heart of humanity , perpetually institutionalised in sinful social and political structures . |
| 20 | And , as they issue from the illumined pile , |
| 21 | By and large they fell in happily with the exhortations they received from the Arab world not to take any unauthorized political initiatives . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They came from the armed forces , from war work , from factory , farm , workshop and office . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They came from the four corners of the world , east and west , north and south , and they spoke many languages . |
| 26 | Encouraged by the pride of the town authorities , the Guy Fawkes celebrations provided an annual explosion for the town 's poor : deprived as they had been of saints ' days with the advent of Puritanism , they came from the miserable hovels cramped in the town 's back alleys to protest not only against the symbols of oppression but also , in bad years , against the local oligarchy . |
| 27 | They came from the big houses down the loch or over the pass towards Loch Lomond , or the castle at Inverary , from miles and miles , little girls in furred and caped coats and dresses gathered into heavy bows behind the cascades of ringlets . |
| 28 | They came from the same country . |
| 29 | These characteristics very considerably , but similar patterns can be found in several different churches and one can be fairly confident they came from the same workshop . |
| 30 | Denis wondered sometimes if they came from the same father and mother . |