Example sentences of "take from " in BNC.
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| 1 | What , however , caused almost universal consternation was my suggestion that we should go a stage further and see whether it was possible to introduce ‘ portable ’ pensions — pensions which you could take from one job to another . |
| 2 | Rather breathlessly , he told her that despite this , no one and nothing could take from them what had been . |
| 3 | It is obviously devastating for a parent to watch a child go through misery , but Dorothy Einon points out that children learn how to give and take from such experiences . |
| 4 | We must take from the earth … |
| 5 | I expect each one will take from these misty illusions , creations congenial to his own mind . |
| 6 | You can take all in the line or as many as you like but you can not take from more than one line . |
| 7 | It was inconceivable that she could take from Mrs Barnet anything that was rightly hers , nor did Ruth flatter herself that Joss Barnet 's interest in her was anything but transient . |
| 8 | I asked , and they said , ‘ Remove the disc and replace it with a piece of bone which we 'll take from your hip . ’ |
| 9 | Can we take from Marxism certain elements without having to accept its atheistic commitment ? |
| 10 | The results can take from a few hours to over a week , depending on where you go to be tested . |
| 11 | What one can take from the 1993 Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art is a sense of what certain critics consider important and a sense of the direction in which the Whitney is headed . |
| 12 | What we can take from this contemporary debate is the realisation that although research can assess the effectiveness of signing in schools , the change to Total Communication is generally based on attitude or commitment , which minimises or ignores the teacher variable . |
| 13 | Could they legitimately take from man those primary rights by virtue of which they have their existence , they would destroy their own foundation , break the moral chain , give a chaotic impulse in the universe and introduce confusion , in the works of Him who is not the God of confusion but of order . |
| 14 | On the fault-tolerance front IBM says that Mode 3 substantially cuts the delay between the one machine failing and the other one picking up where it left off ; by the company 's own estimation the switch can take from anywhere between a long 30 seconds to a horribly long five minutes in modes 1 and 2 . |
| 15 | What the company will contribute or take from OMG is unclear , even to Sybase itself at the moment ; it says it is keeping an eye on developments . |
| 16 | Basil would give anything to anyone and could take from anyone . |
| 17 | The sections could take from two weeks to half a term to complete , so the actual number of tests varied from scheme to scheme . |
| 18 | Now this is the time when you must watch them , because it can take from two to two days , two hours from two , two hours to two days to regain control of the brain , depending on the person and if it 's , happens outside and they want to get away , stress the fact you get up and run under a bus and they do n't mean to obviously |
| 19 | HAMLET : You can not take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal — except my life , except my life , except my life … |
| 20 | If I cry , the Monster cries — more piteously , longer , louder — not because it is sad , of course not , never out of sorrow or pity , no , merely because Jimbo has cried and thereby been noticed , for his self These scraps of attention the Monster would take from me to the last smile , the last nod , the last little pat on the head . |
| 21 | The Minister is saying that the Government will take from pensioners what is currently theirs by right . |
| 22 | A seamen 's canteen licence only permits the sale of alcoholic liquor for consumption in the canteen , and it is an offence to supply in or take from a seamen 's canteen liquor for consumption off the premises ( see s.96 ) . |
| 23 | Tuan Ti Fo made to correct him — to make him take from the bowl of black stones — but the boy was insistent . |
| 24 | The document then put forward three possible options : the setting up of a small central body , along the lines of Model A in the English Green Paper , which would have a majority of its membership from Welsh local authorities ; a Model B type central body which would disburse government funds in Wales and would take from local authority control the colleges providing a significant amount of higher education , including teacher training ; and the direct association in Wales of the solution adopted in England through the setting up of a Welsh sub-committee of the main organization . |
| 25 | They could also take from the forest all they needed for fuel , building , hedging , and so on . |
| 26 | Congress , if as a trade union , and if as a labour movement , you stop going forward in campaigning , there 's only one thing that happens you start to go backwards , because this government will always try and take from working class people , all the time . |
| 27 | ‘ In any case , I 've had about as much as I can take from your dear friend for today — thank you very much . ’ |
| 28 | The only good news and the only real cheer that I can take from today 's events is that this is the last occasion on which such an announcement will be made by this Secretary of State or by a Conservative Government . |
| 29 | ‘ We can not take from our hosts . |
| 30 | For , unlike conquerors before and after , the Romans did not only take from their subject peoples , they contributed also , and the result of these contributions in road communications , law and administration , heating systems , architecture and art has had a permanent effect in Europe despite the 1000 years which intervened between the collapse of the Western half of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Renaissance . |