Example sentences of "[to-vb] [indef pn] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And so , although she had hated having to do it , Laura had forced herself to write a long letter to Ross , saying how very much she loved and missed him — and could n't they still try to salvage something from the wreck of their marriage ? |
| 32 | Though Catholicism is championed in the end , it is no longer portrayed as having the power to protect one from the extremes of madness and sin . |
| 33 | With projects that are more than ten years old you should give a lot of thought to the problems involved , and then decide to build something from the current issue of Everyday Electronics instead ! |
| 34 | The idea has effectively been ruled out by the Commission 's clear reference to the need for a ‘ common economic policy ’ , but the myth that it is possible to separate one from the other persists in Britain . |
| 35 | She had n't been able to read anything from the ice-chips that stared back at her . |
| 36 | It has a very efficient and accurate VAT return facility , and includes functions for everything you need to run anything from a small to multi-national company . |
| 37 | And she would have little illusion about being able to save anything from the low wages she would receive from any of the available jobs . |
| 38 | As to whether change is necessary or not one can not help pay some regard of that phenomenon of the post war world , Japan : If time travel was a fact and it was possible to transport someone from the middle of the social scale of Victorian Britain to the present time , he would think a revolution had taken place ; but the basic ground rules of social life and commerce would shortly become comprehensible to him . |
| 39 | ‘ My first reaction was to get someone from the British Transport Police , but the door of their office was locked . |
| 40 | ‘ If ever I went out of my way to learn something from a book the chances were that It 'd be hopelessly wrong — you know , inaccurate transcriptions of a song or solo — so I decided to try and develop my own ear by learning things from record . ’ |
| 41 | Teachers are more likely to learn something from a recording if they have specific points to look for . |
| 42 | my Lord that 's why we say it was so strict , the commission said you 're not getting exemption you have to remove everything from the market |
| 43 | Plumber 's snakes can be hired , though might be a tool worth owning — you may be able to improvise something from a length of net curtain wire with a hook at the end . |
| 44 | There is now a ‘ hassles and uplifts ’ scale with which ambitious social psychologists try to quantify everything from the down value of a lost shoe to the up value of a birthday card from an old friend . |
| 45 | For to have anything from the public one must satisfy the public and no one individual . ’ |
| 46 | She set it down on a footstool beside the open fire , then leaned across to take something from a bowl on the mantlepiece and sprinkle it on the burning logs . |
| 47 | Scotland 's determination to take something from the night was shown in the 64th minute , too , when a defender , Wright , was replaced by a forward , his Aberdeen team-mate , Scott Booth . |
| 48 | You 're sure you do n't want to take anything from the kitchen ? |
| 49 | This , ICL claims , ‘ allows you to keep all choices a la carte ’ , but it also provides the user with support — each user is free to take anything from the range he requires , and although they can have a personalised user interface , the products are integrated and conform to uniform design . |
| 50 | Erm I er move straight over to er er Graham and then open up for any questions or if anybody wants to say anything from the floor . |
| 51 | The interpreter operates at high speed : in simultaneous translation ( strictly speaking , simultaneous interpreting ) , he keeps roughly a sentence behind the speaker ; in consecutive translation ( interpreting ) the speaker waits for the interpreter to translate anything from a morpheme to a whole paragraph at a time . |
| 52 | The fashion for opera , its current potency to promote anything from a fast car to a pension scheme , does not venture beyond Puccini . |
| 53 | Like I 've been trying to tell everyone from the beginning . ’ |
| 54 | This does n't just mean doing a sedentary job but refers rather to the type of person ( who could well be a housewife , doing a basically non-sedentary type of job ) who calls the children to bring something from the next room rather than getting up herself , or who goes to great lengths to avoid journeys up and down stairs , or who will drive round for five minutes to find a parking spot near the exit of the car park rather than walk for two minutes … |
| 55 | A third is transput instructions , requiring a field to specify one from a range of peripheral devices . |
| 56 | The Americans are also put out by the efforts of Russia 's foreign minister , Andrei Kozyrev , to rescue something from the apparent wreckage of the world 's peace efforts . |
| 57 | They sometimes had secretaries who could imitate their master 's hand so perfectly that it is difficult to tell one from t' other . |
| 58 | Nevertheless , an ordinary person might be hard put to tell one from the other . |
| 59 | We do not distinguish experiences from non-experiences as we might distinguish oranges from apples , viz. by indicating certain characteristics that might enable anyone , including those who have never tasted either fruit , to tell one from the other . |
| 60 | The coral does n't seem to gain anything from the relationship ; the gobies can sometimes be seen pulling mucus off the coral , but this could be interpreted as parasitism rather than symbiosis . |