Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [indef pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year ago , Everton 's only hope of salvaging anything from a miserable season evaporated when they lost at Stamford Bridge in an FA Cup tie . |
| 2 | Critical for hooking Alphas and VAXes , DEC said the platform would be protocol-independent , capable of handling everything from multi-vendor PC LANs to multi-vendor mainframes . |
| 3 | With the possibility of recouping anything from Barclaycard , many have felt tempted to play . |
| 4 | Many hon. Members believe that the Secretary of State should immediately instruct the Director General of Fair Trading to review the position urgently and in detail , so that we can discover whether there is still some possibility of saving something from this awful mess . |
| 5 | Month by month , the chances of saving anything from the wreckage of Bosnia grow less . |
| 6 | But at least she could be certain of one thing : it was n't a place where there was a risk of meeting anyone from the power station , at least not anyone who mattered . |
| 7 | he had a completely different way of doing anything from anybody else . |
| 8 | When in 1953 Wyndham Lewis suggested a further campaign to release Pound from confinement , Eliot at first advised against any precipitate step : a number of proposals were being considered — including a letter to President Eisenhower — but he was wary of doing anything from England without being sure that there was approval for such moves in America . |
| 9 | We could n't argue , for Thistle 's chance of taking anything from this game lasted all of 58 seconds . |
| 10 | But the cubicle in which the yellow sheet had been found could reveal no further secrets , and all hope had early been abandoned of learning anything from the scores of footprints which had criss-crossed the grassy area since the murder . |
| 11 | The key aspects of public goods are ( 1 ) that it is technically possible for one person to consume without reducing the amount available for someone else , and ( 2 ) the impossibility of excluding anyone from consumption except at a prohibitive cost . |
| 12 | The process of making anything from a switch to a civil airliner is subject to improvements in speed , quality and cost reduction which follow the characteristic learning curve . |
| 13 | That way , your 30 days terms will mean 30 days instead of meaning anything from 30 to 60 days ( which averages out at 45 days or 50 per cent more days than 30 days ) . |
| 14 | There was no way of preventing anyone from walking in if a room were empty . |
| 15 | The latter offer yet another way of affecting the output power of the S120 ; the amount of variation available means that the amp is capable of offering anything from a humble 8 watts per channel to a fairly mighty 60 watts per side . |
| 16 | It can be an offence , however , not to assist strangers , injured or in acute danger , where an obvious remedy is at hand such as pulling someone from wreckage or issuing a warning . |
| 17 | It must be like loving someone from afar only to have them turn to us one day , recognizing the love we have held for them and the secret things we have done for them , and returning our love with their own . |
| 18 | So do be very wary please about buying anything from a street trader . |
| 19 | However jewel-like the good will may be in its own right , there is a morally significant difference between rescuing someone from a burning building and dropping him from a twelfth storey window while trying to rescue him . |
| 20 | In 1955 the new British Conservative premier , Anthony Eden , took the lead in salvaging something from the wreck of EDC . |
| 21 | To my acute embarrassment , the children seemed far more interested in meeting someone from television . |
| 22 | She took off her glove before removing one from the pack I held over the desk . |
| 23 | He had good taste and was most helpful in extricating one from awkward situations . |
| 24 | Sarella had protested , not feeling happy about taking anything from him , but he had insisted . |
| 25 | During the war , Littlewoods turned their hand to producing everything from parachutes to Wel-lington bomber frames . |
| 26 | It is said that one can not go anywhere — I know that this was true in west Africa — without meeting someone from Upton who will give good and wise advice . |
| 27 | Mrs Leather gave a similar instance of jading a horse from Herefordshire but without deducing anything from it except that the old woman concerned was thought to be a witch . |
| 28 | Three days passed without hearing anything from him . |
| 29 | You ca n't spend all those centuries working my particular client group without learning something from your subjects about survival . |
| 30 | And I think you can see that the , the word transference here is , is in the sense that transference erm , alludes to transferring something from one place to another , as if the feeling , which were originally experienced , for example , in the family , were being transferred to the , to the analytic situation , to the , to the analysis . |