Example sentences of "[verb] from [pers pn] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever Coleridge 's precise setting during those few days , the autumn landscape of Culbone drew from him an immediate poetic response . |
| 2 | Thanks to deft chairmanship and bluntness , he drew from it a respectable report that won praise for its forthrightness . |
| 3 | At the point where in her first aria the prima donna expected from him an angry gesture , he exaggerated his anger so much that he looked as if he was about to box her ears and strike her on the nose with his fist . |
| 4 | Now they want from us a prediction of the fee expenditure that they will incur on a period by period basis , and we 're not sure how we can provide that . |
| 5 | Gride 's housekeeper , a palsied hag , who steals from him a document relating to Madeline Bray 's inheritance . |
| 6 | Poulantzas thus constructs what appears at first to be a morass of categories in continual flux ; but he then extracts from it a pattern of relations which he regards as constant . |
| 7 | Meetings had been videotaped at which the legislators accepted from him a total of $370,000 . |
| 8 | There came from him a smell , half-musty , half disagreeably sweet , of old clothes and incense , overlaid with stale sweat , a smell which was a pitiable amalgam of failure and fear . |
| 9 | Constable Laurie gave evidence that on 5th August he entered at the back door of 149 Chatham Street , that he received from her 1/9d. , and that she received from him a betting slip . |
| 10 | Representatives from the recently formed Forum for the Defence of Human Rights met on Feb. 12 with the then Interior Minister Hekuran Isai , and received from him a list of 108 political prisoners who had been released unannounced since Jan. 6 , according to a Forum statement issued on Feb. 18 . |
| 11 | We may have had from him an attempt at Opposition fury , but , on occasion , he experienced pretty heavy weather in trying to make distinctions between his party and the Government on an issue on which , in essence , they agree . |
| 12 | A client bought from him a large quantity of shares in an infamous CTC stock which went bust . |
| 13 | Monteverdi had composed no operas since 1630 ; now the Grimani commissioned from him an Adone ( lost ) for Giovanni e Paolo ( 1639 ) and the Vendramini inaugurated their San Moise the same year with a revival of Arianna . |
| 14 | She had observed the Palazzo 's comings and goings , trying to sniff from them a sense of the life within . |
| 15 | As far as heads were concerned , coordinators needed from them a properly negotiated version of the Authority 's job specification , support for the difficult tasks they were required to undertake , and a preparedness to include them within the team of senior staff involved in the development of policy . |
| 16 | He withdrew from it a rare bound second volume of Palestine Illustrated by François Schotten , published in Paris in 1929 . |
| 17 | The Israeli authorities did not demand from him an expression of regret . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the king had to send his justices to the clergy 's deliberations and threatened to take the names of opposers , and it took all Winchelsey 's good will and best arts to elicit from them a grant of one tenth for the current year and another , should it be necessary , in the following year . |
| 19 | If , if your , if your total turnover was sixteen thousand , then the inspector of taxes would want from you an account which shows how your fifteen thou sixteen thousand has been arrived at , who 's paid you this money because he looks at those and he checks their accounts to see they 've received it obviously , that 's what it is , and wh how is your five thousand pounds made up . |
| 20 | ‘ You have my sympathy , admiration and best wishes , ’ said the Count , and parted from him a minute later . |
| 21 | Her first move was to go round to the various teachers who taught the senior class and borrow from them a number of text-books , books on algebra , geometry , French , English Literature and the like . |
| 22 | ‘ We hereby agree acknowledge and confirm as follows : ( 1 ) That we have each received from you a copy of the guarantee dated 3 July 1987 ( a copy of which is attached hereto ) under which Nicholas Edward O'Brien guarantees the payment and discharge of all moneys and liabilities now or hereafter due owing or incurred by Heathrow Fabrications Ltd. to you . |
| 23 | She 's demanding from me a commitment to something more personal than atomic Power . |
| 24 | Although the horn lent itself to delicate work and when finished had a smooth feel , its natural colour , yellow , mottled and streaked with grey , was so unattractive that the Chinese stained the objects they carved from it an artificial brown . |
| 25 | Whatever the rights and wrongs of the matter , the authorities required from me a birth certificate from Štanjel , a certificate of Italian citizenship , a certificate from a bishop declaring that I was stato libero so far as marriage was concerned , and goodness knows what else . |
| 26 | A pupil of Whistler , he derived from him a characteristic liking for low tones , which he manipulated with great dexterity to produce effects reminiscent of Rembrandt . |
| 27 | Glynn also had stolen from him a purse containing £22 and a gold signet ring . |
| 28 | But if we deny that as a possible choice to the children , we tell them it 's wrong ( which they are very used to ) but we withhold from them a dramatic experience which , if handled carefully , would allow them to understand the morality of the situation . |
| 29 | But I believe we can take the present collection of businesses and produce from them a very profitable bank . ’ |
| 30 | Many cathedral and other choirs spend a good deal of time on making recordings , and derive from them a modest but useful income . |