Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] from [pos pn] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | All this was strategy he had developed to detract from their discrepancy in height . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | I got evicted from my last place I was at . |
| 9 | ‘ … 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The blood has drained from his cheeks . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Financial Accounting Standards Board has withdrawn from its agenda a project on accounting for investments with prepayment risk . |
| 17 | Keith Courtney from Dungannon has withdrawn from his British Title fight due to a cracked rib . |
| 18 | Keith Courtney from Dungannon has withdrawn from his British Title fight due to a cracked rib . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | AFTER one of the longest marriages in showbusiness , Petula Clark has parted from her French-born husband Claude Wolff . |
| 22 | NOVELIST Martin Amis , 44-year-old son of writer Kingsley Amis , has parted from his wealthy American wife Antonia Phillips after ten years of marriage , today 's Daily Mail reported . |
| 23 | POLICE are investigating a Darlington wedding car company which has vanished from its Yarm Road premises in Darlington . |
| 24 | THE Government 's most outspoken food safety critic , Professor Richard Lacey , has resigned from his only Whitehall post claiming it is being ‘ neutered ’ to protect the food and drug industry . |
| 25 | Outspoken food safety critic , Professor Richard Lacey , has resigned from his only Whitehall post . |
| 26 | The Northern Ireland Minister , Michael Mates , has resigned from his post over the Asil Nadir affair . |
| 27 | Abroad they were feted , courted like film stars but always in the security of a group ; then when they went back home they were expected to slip from their previous lifestyles into houses that sometimes had no hot water or inside w.c . |
| 28 | Now Joyce proposed to exclude from his tuition those pupils whose racial origin offended him and to take very little care about concealing his admiration of Hitler and his total commitment to National Socialism from those who came under his influence . |
| 29 | His daughter Anna might well have expected to benefit from his death . |
| 30 | Its historical importance in the development of modern ideology has come from its unique claim to explain experience , however eccentrically . |