Example sentences of "they [verb] from the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | Unfortunately they suffer from the main drawback of such elite forces : such exceptional warriors are rare . |
| 4 | ‘ All they want from the wrecked car is the log book , which they can transfer to the stolen car , ’ says Mr Sloan . |
| 5 | Vale dominated the first 45 minutes against a Stockport side they dismissed from the second division play-off last Wednesday . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They crashed from the raised platform at the stern , down among the feet , of the rowers who hastily jumped out of their way . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But none of the regional clubs will quantify how much they earn from the lucrative Clubcall telephone commentaries . |
| 11 | They range from the spiral wound glass fibre/epoxy type which , being black , are sometimes confused with the carbon shafts . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Instead they issue from the divided heart of humanity , perpetually institutionalised in sinful social and political structures . |
| 15 | And , as they issue from the illumined pile , |
| 16 | By and large they fell in happily with the exhortations they received from the Arab world not to take any unauthorized political initiatives . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They came from the same country . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Denis wondered sometimes if they came from the same father and mother . |
| 22 | I er I did n't buy them and he sent us three boxes and they came from the same warehouse . |
| 23 | Although there is no precise information about the provenance of all of these finds , it is reasonable to assume that they came from the original excavation of the ‘ villa ’ or from adjacent sites . |
| 24 | The berries grow on low vines in damp , marshy ground , but they also thrive in the sandy hills along the coastline of New England where they benefit from the salty spray of the sea . |
| 25 | As for the women , he said , they suffered from the same sort of things — depression and sometimes guilt . |
| 26 | They vary from the smallest tin shack propped up against a breakwater to the smartest yacht club in Cowes — but you will find the same enthusiasm for the sport in each . |
| 27 | When the seals , which belonged to Rose Cuthbert , were stolen the police said they dated from the pre-Ming dynasty . |
| 28 | Therefore , the assessments which the neighbourhood police give of how much support they obtain from the Catholic community ( or , more accurately , how much support they see the majority of Catholics as feeling able safely to show ) , vary depending on wider circumstances and the time-scale used . |
| 29 | Although many of his patients were , statistically speaking , ‘ abnormal ’ , that is , they differed from the average person in their group , they were nearer to the ‘ normal ’ in the evaluative sense , that is , in having some rational understanding of themselves . |
| 30 | Their tusks were gnarled and they differed from the older Daurog in one remarkable and savage aspect : ridges of long , black spikes grew from the fronts of their bodies ; the central , vertical line of thorns ran down on to the twisting , restless sex organs that hung from their rotund bellies . |