Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] thing from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was n't prepared to totally drop things from the various courses ( because they still came up every year ) but over the years less and less emphasis was placed on the more mundane work . |
| 2 | Yeah but she 's only down here to get things from the cleaning cupboard and stuff . |
| 3 | To this day I frequently learn things from farmers , but that was one time when I learned from a postman . |
| 4 | Like the Trade Descriptions Act , it is designed not to give individual consumers a remedy when things have gone wrong , but rather to prevent things from going wrong . |
| 5 | He had a memory of struggling through the darkened recesses of Roirbak 's labyrinthine abode late at night , blindly knocking things from his path in an effort to reach the sluice drain before his urge to vomit overcame him . |
| 6 | I never bought things from South Africa for many years , because of what was happening in South Africa . |
| 7 | Him and me have never kept things from each other . |