Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bradford slowly got into the game and nearly took the lead when Mark Prudhoe could only parry a piledriver from Mike Duxbury , then punched the ball away from the onrushing Sean McCarthy . |
| 2 | Bradford slowly got into the game and nearly took the lead when Mark Prudhoe could only parry a piledriver from Mike Duxbury , then punched the ball away from the onrushing Sean McCarthy . |
| 3 | Secondly , the Wellcome Security Sub-System would control the operator identity passwords and ensure that : ( a ) an operator could only enter a system from a particular logical terminal ; and ( b ) that the operator could only access the system — and , indeed , programs — for which he/she was authorised . |
| 4 | Illusion could not fix a position from a sextant reading , nor fight two hundred square feet of heavy flogging wet canvas in a tumbling sea and a rough wind . |
| 5 | She shook her head , pointed to the baby first and then to Sycorax as if her maternal cares in both their cases meant she could not stir a moment from their side . |
| 6 | My interest in sport helped and apart from three days jankers ( for being late back from weekend pass — could not afford a taxi from Wendover station ) , this vexed me as many of my Entry had zero days but many , like my dear friend the late Roddy Morgan , did more than 300 days . |
| 7 | One could not get a dispensation from the mines inspectorate to increase the manpower . |
| 8 | The problem was that I could not get a response from anybody in the Department . |
| 9 | Mind you , England should have been home and clear before that , but poor Barnes , the man who had won the Cup final at Twickenham with a last-minute magical goal kick , could not get a goal from eight attempts in the first half . |
| 10 | Counsel for the appellants had attacked this finding because the patient had been an outpatient at a different hospital in the past and a practitioner there could have fulfilled this function ; and he submitted that in any case it was a duty of the hospital managers to find out if it was practicable to obtain the recommendation of a practitioner who had previous acquaintance with the patient : he relied on the form of the question ‘ explain why you could not get a recommendation from a medical practitioner who did know the patient ’ on the hospital admission application form . |
| 11 | With this sensitivity it could easily detect a shrimp from over a metre away for these crustaceans generate tiny electrical fields of up to one thousandth of a volt ( 0.2–1 millivolt ) per centimetre each time they flick their tails . |
| 12 | The decision had cheered him up ; the bustle created by his demands reaffirmed the show of his importance ; and he could still feel a breeze from the pure air which had wreathed him at Hause Point . |
| 13 | In this way she developed her instinctive talent as a fashion editor ; she could instantly take a detail from this and an idea from that , while keeping well within her overall style . |
| 14 | WOLVES fancy Blackpool forward David Eyres and they could also get a call from Chelsea , who may fancy Mike Stowell to end their search for a goalkeeper . |
| 15 | When the State pension age was introduced , men and women could both draw a pension from age 65 , but in 1940 the pension age for women was lowered to 60 . |
| 16 | Ethel , who could n't tell a flat from a sharp , playing as if her fingers were croquet mallets . |
| 17 | That took about half an hour , and I could n't feel a thing from the waist down . |
| 18 | She took the Geiger-Muller counter from the holdall but could n't get a reading from around the seal of the door . |
| 19 | Now are aware that are losing the agency stuff therefore services should improve generally but this is mostly and the business travel , you know duty travel , cruise positioning that sort of thing , to the extent that erm and two of the ops people paid a visit to last week for a liaison meeting and one thing that I thought was absolutely remarkable that came out was in respect of complaining that they could never get through to anybody in erm in , they could n't get a reply from the extensions and they could n't send messages or anything . |
| 20 | One night I stopped on a bit at the dance in Cotherstone and had to walk home because I could n't get a lift from anyone . |
| 21 | Söll is so warm-hearted you could almost get a tan from the welcome . |