Example sentences of "[verb] from them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The children must be quite clear from the outset about the task in hand ; what is going to be expected from them during the course of the lesson ? |
| 2 | Today 's senior citizens may complain that they do not receive the respect or consideration that was expected from them by their parents , but most of them welcome the far more open and equal relationship which exist between them and their adult children . |
| 3 | The majority of our sample ( 59% ) describe themselves as fairly confident they know what their sexual partner wants from them during sex . |
| 4 | No doubt there was speech addressed from them to him speech he now glosses as ‘ greeting with abuse and swearing ’ . |
| 5 | You never really benefit from them at bedroom sound levels anyway , but turn up the wick and you begin to wonder how you ever managed without one . |
| 6 | Call-slips for books which the Library was unable to supply were also collected and information transferred from them to data sheets . |
| 7 | A mild muttering came from them like settling insects . |
| 8 | Though it must be remembered that this is no a priori scheme imposed upon the appearances , but rather an interpretation gradually distilled from them by prolonged contemplation . |
| 9 | For example , they have reanalysed studies of mother-child bonding and maternal deprivation ; have criticized conclusions drawn from them about good mother-child relations ; and have extended investigations of these relations to take into account , not just maternal exclusivity and sensitivity , but children 's relationships with other adults and children , and the physical , psychological and social quality of care . |
| 10 | The culmination of these claims to national identity and of sentiments of this nature came in the preamble to Henry VIII 's Act in Restraint of Appeals of 1533 : ‘ Where by dyvers sundrie old autentike histories and cronicles it is manifestly declared and expressed that this Realme of England is an Impire , and so hath been accepted in the world … . ’ ( 36 , iii , 427 ) Here one finds an explicit statement of views on the nature of England , as well as practical conclusions drawn from them concerning the government of the Church . |
| 11 | And he took no pleasure in his food , neither could he sleep by night , nor would he lift up his eyes from the ground , nor stir out of his house , nor commune with his friends , but turned from them in silence as if the breath of his shame would taint them . |
| 12 | He was fascinated to discover that the Galapagos animals bore a general resemblance to those he had seen on the mainland , but differed from them in detail . |
| 13 | This may be the thing that the world as a whole would want to buy from them at economic rates . |
| 14 | He stabbed a man scrambling up the bulwarks beside him , and cheered as Hector 's galleys swept up to the shore and another horde of Macleans poured from them to the rescue of their clansmen . |
| 15 | But after the first few meetings … well , the people there are nice enough … it 's just that we never seem to hear from them between our quarterly meetings " . |
| 16 | If any readers have any information about this legendary team , in particular personal recollection , I should be very grateful indeed to hear from them at this address . |
| 17 | I do n't wish to hear from them on my return that you 've been airing the kind of sentiments I heard from you today . " |
| 18 | But the polyptychs ' data , even if it 's unwise to generalise from them to the whole kingdom , may still be taken to show a relatively dense , if patchily distributed , population in the area they best cover , namely , that between the rivers Seine and Rhine . |
| 19 | I did n't know and I hid from them in the semantics lab when they came to shrink me , and I sold myself to someone who did n't know how to do it . |
| 20 | This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final note stating that unless we heard from them by eleven o'clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland , a state of war would exist between us . |
| 21 | These confessions were withdrawn by the accused because they claimed they were extracted from them under duress , including beatings . |
| 22 | Therefore rural people have tended to have large surpluses extracted from them through low prices enforced by parastatal marketing boards . |
| 23 | Any debris dislodged from them by hydraulic action sinks to the depths and can not be used by the waves to attack the cliffs . |
| 24 | But there is no word that Saddam Hussein is ready to return to his own people the $10 billion he is accused of looting from them by skimming Iraq 's oil revenue for the past ten years and taking kickbacks from foreign contractors . |
| 25 | On three sides of this mound there is a colonnade on a raised platform comprising sixteen evenly spaced square pillars of unhewn stone , each thirty-two feet high , linked together at the top by heavy beams with ropes and chains hanging from them at short intervals . |
| 26 | Mathematics and natural philosophy are concerned with ideas , and Berkeley now turns from them to spirits , of which God is a special case . |
| 27 | For instance , in a dry country , animals and plants work to maintain the fluid content of their cells , work against a natural tendency for water to flow from them into the dry outside world . |
| 28 | In those days I think I must have regarded many of the people dotted about my landscape more as bushes than as the human beings I now see them to have been : some dull and uninteresting like laurel bushes ; some like lavender sweetly scented ; some thorny , to be avoided ; and then rose bushes , gooseberry bushes , fuchsia bushes — but all just part of the scenery , and I withdrawn from them into my dreams . |
| 29 | Because the early metronome and the 35 or so tempos of French Baroque works calculated from them by 18th-century French writers have already been well documented and discussed in recent studies , particularly in respect to dance tempos , they will not be discussed further here . |
| 30 | He saw , as though some wall painting had come to life before his eyes , the glitter of steel and the minute clusters of rainbow colours just moving over the crest of one rise , to descend into the next bowl ; and riding towards them , negligently like men out hawking , he saw a smaller group , no more than half a dozen mounted men , who had been until this moment hidden from them by the lie of the land . |