Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A commitment to East European art seems to be prominent ; so too African and broadly Third-World developments , with an implied attempt to transcend the barriers which isolate them from a self-defining ‘ First World ’ ; historical figures whose critical recuperation is overdue ; promising younger artists , whom the remainder of the British art world traditionally shun . |
| 2 | Based in the UK , MAP is an ecumenical organisation that aims to increase media awareness , to encourage critical dialogue with media practitioners and to recognise the underlying values in the media and evaluate them from a Christian viewpoint . |
| 3 | Miss Julie Stott , 27 , from Eccles , Manchester , was walking back to her hotel with a friend , Mr Peter Ellis , 27 , when a man attacked them from a passing car . |
| 4 | You should be able to buy these books at a bookshop or borrow them from a library . |
| 5 | The gypsies themselves are puzzled by the apparant determination of the council to evict them from a site well away from public view . |
| 6 | These districts were not very fruitful in peat , and they would have to carry them from a distance of many miles ; in some cases a pavement of large stones led from the main road to the door of the dwelling . |
| 7 | It may be possible to find such books in your office , or to arrange to borrow them from a public library . |
| 8 | His mum probably got them from a jumble sale . |
| 9 | And they got them from a host of people including Lady Thatcher , the Princess of Wales , Noel Edmonds , Frank Muir , Cliff Richard , Sir Harry Secombe and Ian Botham . |
| 10 | ‘ Essentially they did n't know me from a hole in the ground when I first approached them and were willing to give me the benefit of the doubt . |
| 11 | According to the survey , 44 per cent of the sponsored students among the 14,000 engineers graduating in 1989 claimed that their work experience , averaging 13 months , has discouraged them from a career in engineering . |
| 12 | According to the survey , 44 per cent of the sponsored students among the 14,000 engineers graduating in 1989 claimed that their work experience , averaging 13 months , has discouraged them from a career in engineering . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , preserve me from a woman 's corn . |
| 14 | Even if an ineffective treatment does not in itself cause damage it may harm patients by raising false expectations or by deflecting them from a better treatment , so this criterion would leave virtually all unproved treatment open to investigation . |
| 15 | We walked straight to the head of the queue and helped ourselves from a huge cauldron which was steaming on top of an oven . |
| 16 | A MAN hanged himself from a tree in a busy shopping centre — but no one noticed his body for at least two days . |
| 17 | I 'm sure I 'm keeping you from a million other appointments . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ That is , of course , if I 'm not keeping you from a million other engagements . ’ |
| 19 | Fool one from a Belgian port |
| 20 | He was agreeably surprised to find one from a friend who had joined the Mounties a couple of years previously . |
| 21 | My explanations of this foible have become increasingly baroque of late : I find myself announcing everything from a rare eye disease to undying homage to the early Auden . |
| 22 | All it says is if you do buy something from a shop and realize it 's faulty , what you should do is take it back to the shop who sold it to you , together with your receipt if you 've still got it or some other proof of purchase . |
| 23 | It is important because if you do buy something from a shop and realize there 's something wrong with it , if you take it back the first thing the shop would say to you is can I see your receipt ? |
| 24 | The complicating factor is the reader 's motivation : the effort that children will make if they need to obtain something from a particular book or periodical . |
| 25 | He hummed something from a Beethoven cello sonata . |
| 26 | Venice itself has everything from a ‘ Bellini cocktail ’ at Harry 's bar , to fruit and vegetables at the Rialto market ; exclusive designer wear can be found in the boutiques along the Mercerie . |
| 27 | And it 's the attitude I think that very often causes everything from a major accident like that where someone loses their life , and very often to the small little scrape on a lorry which occurs in a in a in a yard . |
| 28 | The police claimed she had escaped and then hanged herself from a tree . |
| 29 | By making an alliance with Megara , Athens was clearly seeking to secure herself from a lightning invasion from the west — the threat which had been made at the time of Thasos . |
| 30 | Bantam moved him from a Christmas slot to this summer place last year in an attempt to increase his sales , but this summer the horror leads appear more plentiful , making it a tougher market . |