Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [indef pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | DeFreitas played a daffy stroke : he tried to pull one from Cairns which was not short enough . |
| 2 | Michael Atherton ( 37 ) , and especially Chris Lewis ( 49 ) , also played their part in stands of 58 and 93 respectively with Hick as England tried to salvage something from a Test series they have already lost 2-0 . |
| 3 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
| 4 | He 'd heard nothing from them for over three months , and was forced to assume that they were either dead , or prisoners of the Nazis . |
| 5 | I was wondering if you 'd heard anything from Doctor ? |
| 6 | They were adamant that it had been clear all along , they 'd suspected something from the start . |
| 7 | They seemed to sell everything from bolts of brightly coloured , imported cloth for making sarongs or Mother Hubbards — the island dress that hangs in a straight line from shoulder to ankle — to penknives and a large assortment of tools ranging from chisels to axes , from fishing lines and hooks to pots and pans . |
| 8 | I did n't believe he 'd got anything from the card . |
| 9 | Prior to that particular jamboree , it was schmooze city down at the World Trade Center ( sic ) for the first lot of talks/panels/seminars which seemed to cover everything from How To Get A Record Deal to How To Lose A Record Deal to How To Fry An Egg . |
| 10 | Probably if you 'd brought something from M F I . |
| 11 | He 'd see it as some kind of betrayal , that I 'd allowed someone from outside to see that things are n't as perfect as they ought to be . ’ |
| 12 | I 'd learned nothing from it at all . |
| 13 | She 'd taken everything from her . |
| 14 | He regarded it as one of my most endearing qualities that I seemed to want nothing from him . |
| 15 | X , who did not have one in stock , contracted to buy one from Four Point Garage . |
| 16 | Holly asked Rain whether Sniffy had named names yet and she admitted getting nothing from him . |
| 17 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to hear nothing from Mr or Mrs Fanshawe during the past six weeks ? ’ |
| 18 | He started accusing everyone from Sam Gristy to Jan Treffry himself of meddling with his fish barrels , and insisted on one of Sam 's barrels being opened as well ; but when it was found to be brim full Martha told him in plain terms that as far as she was concerned , he had lost the contest . |
| 19 | ‘ Mr Williams agreed to get someone from Grand Met to meet all the landlords affected . |
| 20 | So what if he did want something from her , something she knew quite well she had n't got ? |
| 21 | During the shelling and mortaring I had heard nothing from Sid 's trench . |
| 22 | When , by Thursday , Helen had heard nothing from Giles the words that rang in her head began to turn from music to mockery . |
| 23 | After the first report he had heard nothing from the boy . |
| 24 | Seven weeks and five days since that cataclysmic day when Svend had interrupted their lovemaking , and she had heard nothing from him . |
| 25 | Having slept better that night , Fabia awakened on Tuesday and thought of Ven , thought of Cara and of Barney , and would dearly have liked to telephone her parents to find out if they had heard anything from her sister . |
| 26 | They had blamed everything from arthritis to a bowel condition . |
| 27 | The old lady who had seen something from her window , all those years ago . |
| 28 | You had to buy everything from them . |
| 29 | The temple bells were clanging to their climax as Ramlal hurried past the door , clutching his precious document , and laughing to himself at the thought that the God had got nothing from him at all . |
| 30 | Celia and Brassard , who had overheard everything from the outer office , exchanged rueful glances . |