Example sentences of "[verb] [pos pn] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah well I got my freezers from Millers , and I got my fridge . |
| 2 | and I got back home , and somebody must have told him where we lived , he got my address from somewhere and he came up to see Irene and I . |
| 3 | In exchange for that and about £35 worth of New Zealand dollars , I got my validation from Canterbury AC 's CFI , Murray Fowler . |
| 4 | So then he got my medicine from outside — ’ |
| 5 | Well according to Cindy this morning , that 's where I got my information from , she said there were no production shortages . |
| 6 | I have learned to please , to gauge and sniff the air before I move off , to swing my head from side to side as I put one foot carefully in front of the other , ears and hair raised to twang on the slightest change in the atmosphere . |
| 7 | I remember that miracle , so easy to forget , that separates my life from the fates of the suburban furies . |
| 8 | Doreen went on , ‘ Is there a porter or a steward to carry my bag from the car ? ’ |
| 9 | I did make my escape from Roundhay — by a route taken by many of my contemporaries : higher education . |
| 10 | ‘ You know I can not abide to light my Woodbine from the campfire . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ What have you done ? ’ asked my mother from the doorway , her arms full of branches of copper-beech . |
| 12 | ‘ Uh , uh , ’ I wagged my head from side to side . |
| 13 | Showing her ruthlessness , she melodramatically claims : ‘ I would , while it was smiling in my face , Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums , And dashed the brains out . ’ |
| 14 | At the Scotland-Wales match I was severely reprimanded by a steward 30 years my junior for daring to place one foot on the hallowed turf as I made my exit from the ‘ schoolboys ’ enclosure ’ . |
| 15 | I 'd been hungry , but filling up on fruit or hot drinks had stopped my tummy from grumbling . |
| 16 | He may make me feel desolate , make my spirits sink , hide my future from me … still … |
| 17 | And , perhaps , with this act of treachery I can finally buy my freedom from the burden of buried horror that bound me to Andy twenty years ago , so that — dispossessed of that trespass — I 'm left free to betray him again , now . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's the last yer 'll get off me an' do n't forget I want my suit from the pawnshop when I come back ter fetch me other things . ’ |
| 19 | From the time that I was about four , each fine weekday evening during the summer months , I trotted off to meet my father from his work at Farrs , the Coachbuilders in Brown Street . |
| 20 | Time will steal my beauty from me . |
| 21 | It occurred to me that as I had met nobody as I walked through the gate and went upstairs , there was no need to encounter anyone now , going down , and I moved my chair from the window . |
| 22 | I could not have turned my head nor moved my hands from where they hung on the straps of the rucksack . |
| 23 | In recent years , I have preferred launching my attack from the bank , rather than from the boat ; and even in high winds , when most of the loch is churned up , clear patches of water may be found along the lee shore . |
| 24 | That tightened Mala 's back muscles — and mine too , though I was more concerned with keeping my jaw from falling open . |
| 25 | ‘ The worst was keeping my hands from my dagger and my mouth shut . |
| 26 | I 'm from the countryside and have always earned my living from it . |
| 27 | His biggest problem was that because of the way things work in academic life , regardless of whether or not I changed my lectures from one year to the next , I was just about unsackable . |
| 28 | So , too , if you shift my bicycle from a public stand in order to get at your own , and forget to replace mine so that it is stolen by someone , that may be trespass , but it is not conversion . |
| 29 | My plan was to increase my pace from normal ( around 3 miles per hour ) to brisk ( 3.5–4.0 miles per hour ) and to walk longer and further as the weeks went by . |
| 30 | . I was ill as well as desolate , and all I wanted was to hide my wretchedness from everyone . ’ |