Example sentences of "[prep] [vb infin] [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not cos you have n't got ta do it from the outside it 's from the inside . |
| 2 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 3 | these other items were n't in the normal refuse collection and therefore they were going to sort of reduce them from a weekly collection to a |
| 4 | But we 've got ta keep you from having hair permed ! |
| 5 | You 're not , you 've got ta get people marked down and you got ta stop them from developing the play . |
| 6 | Yeah and we got ta stop you from pegging ! |
| 7 | You wan na do it from what , half eight el half eight they wanted till eleven or |
| 8 | I 'm not gon na stop you from talking Mr Curtis but I |
| 9 | I 'm gon na stop you from pi , ay ! |
| 10 | I 'm gon na stop you from going out and playing in the muck ! |
| 11 | He 's gon na phone me from Mexico . |
| 12 | Well perhaps you or somebody on the other side might care to tell us how you 're gon na take it from three to three and half , cos I 'll quite happily tell you then how we 'll take it from three and half to four percent , so we welcome that as a step in the right direction . |
| 13 | Stack of them , yeah , but how d' ya get it out , are you gon na save it from the hard disk onto a floppy ? |
| 14 | I do n't know where I 'm gon na get them from . |
| 15 | Why are n't you gon na get them from Macros , it 's only one pound ninety for forty eight ? |
| 16 | I did n't like it but I needed the money — the bastard threatened tae evict us from our caravan if I would n't train the lions — and I was scared of Raja and it knew I was scared and I got drunk and drunker and ’ — Paddy held his crutch aloft — ‘ ye see what happened . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ If ye hold one end o' the skipping-rope ye 'll be able tae stop me from slipping when I work down towards Dick . |
| 18 | Some study how fe move it from one country to another |