Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made it from a pattern |
| 2 | I got it from a guy called Reuben , he was living in Wales and my sister Louise bought me a Joe Johnson with Rip trucks from him for £60 . |
| 3 | ‘ I got it from a novel I read at school , ’ she said , looking down and shuffling her feet . |
| 4 | ‘ No , I got it from an art shop . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Unless someone dropped him from a helicopter , ’ he said . |
| 6 | I ordered him from a kennel in Norfolk , arranging a price and delivery by train . |
| 7 | ‘ I remember him from a long time ago . |
| 8 | Indeed , the police treated us both with the greatest sympathy and consideration from the moment I rang them from a callbox on the Abingdon Road . |
| 9 | ‘ I saw you from a distance this morning , did n't I ? |
| 10 | ‘ Anyway , I nicked 'em from a shop . |
| 11 | I collect it from a dusty shop in Hackney run by tall Italian twins . |
| 12 | I took it from a restaurant this morning . |
| 13 | I do it from a sense of duty for my country . |
| 14 | We went to school together , I saved him from a beating and he rescued me from a hanging , twice ; once in Ipswich and then again at Montfaucon , that great forest of gibbets which stands near the Porte St Denis in Paris . |
| 15 | Obvious efforts are being made here to reduce the damage , which was much worse than I remembered it from a previous visit . |
| 16 | Someone saved him from a blade he had not seen , and he killed the man who wielded it and began to fight his way back the way he had come , towards Siward , still calling orders . |
| 17 | I learned it from a — sort of friend of mine a couple of hours ago . |
| 18 | I take it from a detective story of the 1930s written by J.C . |
| 19 | Finally I for one would nt be too bothered if Howard left.What he has done for the club will always be remembered , but no one man is bigger than the club ( apart from maybe Don ) , and I have it from a very good source that if Howard leaves the club , Leeds will soon run into 15 million quid.Is he worth that much ? |
| 20 | A commitment to East European art seems to be prominent ; so too African and broadly Third-World developments , with an implied attempt to transcend the barriers which isolate them from a self-defining ‘ First World ’ ; historical figures whose critical recuperation is overdue ; promising younger artists , whom the remainder of the British art world traditionally shun . |
| 21 | The kind of reasoning that we have discussed , which takes us from a finite list of singular statements to the justification of a universal statement , which takes us from some to all , is called inductive reasoning and the process is called induction . |
| 22 | Astron , weighing 3½ tonnes , is in a highly elliptical orbit which takes it from a height of 2000 km up to 200 000 km , half way to the Moon . |
| 23 | The benefit of getting it there early and a little leap word which takes you from a feature to a benefit |
| 24 | It is the result of a six-year trek around the world by the Kienholzes which took them from an Indian reservation in South Dakota to China and got them thinking about how the chance of one 's birth is all important in one 's life . |
| 25 | But in 1992 , the only thrusting we can expect of a businessman is that which propels him from a very high building on to the recession-hit pavement below . |
| 26 | ’ Nobody expects it from a well-dressed , well-spoken girl , especially in designer shops . |
| 27 | But if you borrow it from a in er mortgage company , you 're gon na , you 're gon na borrow twice that , you gon na have to pay twice that much back . |
| 28 | You know she 's , I think she got it from a very good chef she said somewhere . |
| 29 | I mean , I knew what was going to happen when I started the exercise , but if you contemplate it from a teacher 's point of view , if I go out and commit suicide or break down you 'll know why , wo n't you . |
| 30 | ‘ Would you know it from a real Poussin ? ’ |