Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] from [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The team played better but failed to profit from their many spells of domination . |
| 2 | The team played better but failed to profit from their many spells of domination . |
| 3 | The few reservations I have expressed about the encyclopedia are not intended to detract from its excellence . |
| 4 | While it remains ( in theory at least ) the prerogative of each agency to decide whether to co-operate with the overall plan , they are at least expected to notify the key worker if they intend to deviate from what has been agreed . |
| 5 | For while your granny may have been content to envelope herself in a cloud of ‘ Tweed ’ each and every morning of her life — never daring to deviate from her ‘ trademark ’ perfume for so much as tea with the vicar — most of us , today , possess a positive wardrobe of perfumes to play with . |
| 6 | It ai n't gon na tell us they 're only gon na sa , someone gon na lose this because a bloke got sacked from his job for having a Betty Boop tattoo . |
| 7 | All this was strategy he had developed to detract from their discrepancy in height . |
| 8 | Roman Catholics ‘ should be received with lenity and all meekness , not to quench with delays the feeble smoke of conformity which seemeth to breathe from them , but to build wheresoever there is any foundation ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ I assume you made it worth her while in other ways , but obviously I failed to discover from her own fair lips how much you thought she was worth , and I 'm damned sure you wo n't admit how much you 've paid over the odds for her favours . ’ |
| 10 | I got evicted from my last place I was at . |
| 11 | Although , as we have seen , shareholding tended to become somewhat more diffused over time , it remains very largely the case that those who promoted and initially financed canal companies and turnpike trusts , were those who expected to benefit from them . |
| 12 | ‘ … provision for depreciation of fixed assets having a finite useful life should be made by allocating the cost ( or revalued amount ) less estimated residual values of the assets as fairly as possible to the periods expected to benefit from their use . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Then why do you want to hide from him ? ’ |
| 14 | If we bear in mind that even the normal expenses of government by this time exceeded the normal income of the crown , we shall appreciate why Edward I sought to extract from his subjects more than any previous king had attempted . |
| 15 | HONG KONG won British backing yesterday for a plan to continue trading from its stockpile of ivory , even if a world-wide ban is agreed by Cites , the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species . |
| 16 | A trade union movement anxious to extend rather than limit its influence would seek to regain those functions that the state has stripped from it . |
| 17 | The blood has drained from his cheeks . |
| 18 | In similarly insincere terms he thanks Duncan for the honours he has received from him : These speeches are subtly calculated by Shakespeare , for their insincerity is obvious to us ( the affected metaphors , the flabby repetitions ) but not to the recipients . |
| 19 | ‘ I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical , economic , or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty . ’ |
| 20 | The question which should be posed is not whether offenders should be permitted to profit from their crimes but whether crime should be profited from by any person . |
| 21 | It is difficult to reject the view that he was genuinely anxious , first not to appear to profit from his own actions in bringing about the downfall of the Coalition , and second to strengthen the new Government , which he thought , probably mistakenly , that Mckenna would do . |
| 22 | The Financial Accounting Standards Board has withdrawn from its agenda a project on accounting for investments with prepayment risk . |
| 23 | Keith Courtney from Dungannon has withdrawn from his British Title fight due to a cracked rib . |
| 24 | Keith Courtney from Dungannon has withdrawn from his British Title fight due to a cracked rib . |
| 25 | The scheme of the Section is that the income which the settlor by his disposition has diverted from himself and conferred on another shall be notionally restored to him while in fact continuing to be applied as he has directed . |
| 26 | No one has heard from him since , no one knows where he is . ’ |
| 27 | No one has heard from them for days . |
| 28 | Anyway I asked her if she 'd heard from your dad , and she has heard from your dad apparently on Friday he went to the consultant |
| 29 | Yesterday 's rally by veterans angered at the way the once mighty army has fallen from its position of esteem was the biggest seen in Moscow for several months . |
| 30 | The proportion of our population aged over 65 has swollen from one in twenty to one in five . |