Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] they from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The expedition was not to start until the beginning of May , five days away , and she knew with absolute certainty that the word of it was to come to them from her . |
| 2 | They were free to raise funds elsewhere if they could , and one at least got a substantial sum from a local authority which would not have supported a project of that nature if it had not come to them from their own school children . |
| 3 | Preston 's maternal grandad , his Great-Uncle Eddie and a cousin called Pete had all died from having things dropped on them from cranes down the docks . |
| 4 | The system enables users to collate information downloaded to them from point-of-sale laptop systems and also to act as a point of information transfer between staff in the field and the head office . |
| 5 | When you have worked through the sensations , looked at them from all angles and asked yourself why they have entered your life and what is to be gained from them , it is important to be able to let them go . |
| 6 | No well I would n't have looked at them from that , from the point of view of |
| 7 | A dog with more breeds in its blood than hairs on its back foamed and yapped at them from the limit of its rope ; the curtains of several trailers were drawn back by shadowy witnesses ; two girls in early adolescence , both with hair so long and blonde they looked to have been baptized in gold ( unlikely beauty , in such a place ) rose from beside the fire , one running as if to alert guards , the other watching the newcomers with a smile somewhere between the seraphic and the cretinous on her face . |
| 8 | For those theses which were read , and were subsequently not cited , Kochen 's fourth alternative contains some of the possible reasons for non-citation , but there may be others , and it is not possible to choose between them from the evidence currently available . |
| 9 | The stallion ( left ) is relaxed but vigilant ; the mare next to him is bothered by the foal pushing between them from behind : her ears show the focus of her attention , while her wrinkled nostril betrays irritation . |
| 10 | We host one evening meal a week for the children , spoiling them rotten with chicken and chips and looking after them from 7.30 to 9.30 pm . |
| 11 | as if to point out that they were not entirely alone , a man with a white terrier came towards them from behind the sandhills . |
| 12 | One friend of mine had her mother-in-law living with them from their wedding day . |
| 13 | The shapes of the things we make are , as a general rule , imposed upon them from the outside : we do not make ‘ embryo ’ machines which acquire complex shapes by intrinsic processes . |
| 14 | Those forces that make agencies fail to generate change also make them slow to respond to changes that are thrust upon them from the outside . |
| 15 | On the whole , during what Duiker has called ‘ the Stalinist years ’ , this was something that was accepted by the Vietnamese Communist Party but one can imagine that it was not always so easy to accept the advice which came to them from their French comrades . |
| 16 | All , like these picture perfect Labradors , going to new owners who believe their dream puppy came to them from a caring environment . |
| 17 | Gods speak to them from inside , hallucinating voices perhaps originally those of actual ancestors , later projected into statues but still ‘ heard ’ within . |
| 18 | There is also almost no one there who feels enthusiastic about knowing Russian , which was imposed on them from above . |
| 19 | Team teaching is not imposed on them from above , nor is it likely to succeed if this happens . |
| 20 | The millennium can not be imposed on them from above . |
| 21 | ‘ The semi-detached pair on the right of yours , looking at them from the road , belong to one of the Oxford colleges . |
| 22 | It is said that the plaintiffs endeavoured to run the business because of the negligent advice received by them from Mr on the twenty second of October the plaintiffs were unable to withdraw from the contract . |
| 23 | And I went by night and fought against them from dawn until midday . |
| 24 | It was tacitly agreed between them from long experience . |
| 25 | He knew also that the human race freely chose to reject him ; it was only right that they should take some responsibility : mankind as well as God must be responsible for reversing the effects of the fall and for moving on to the mature relationship with the creator that had been ordained for them from all eternity . |
| 26 | They could not provide for them from their own resources , he alleged , and hence resorted to war , pillage and brigandage in order to sustain their followings . |
| 27 | We would have to wait until the following day to hear about them from Suor Eusebia . |
| 28 | I tend to get to hear about them from seeing the Post Office . |
| 29 | They were much less gentle than the water-buffalo , which spend most of their lives doing nothing , wallowing up to their ears in mudpools , while pampered and scrubbed by the little boys who are assigned to look after them from birth . |
| 30 | The researchers meet the guests first , and generally look after them from the time they arrive to the time they leave . |