Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] a [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two thirds of them scratch a living from the soil . |
| 2 | After Trafalgar , Admiralty instructions to the commanders of British men-of-war no longer ordered them to demand a salute from foreign naval vessels in the waters where Britain had for so long claimed such a right . |
| 3 | As he is a nobleman 's son , I know he would n't like me to accept a gift from anyone . |
| 4 | I made a picture from the same flowers to show what the rose bushes would yield the following summer . |
| 5 | I made a frame from 1½″ × 1″ wood and stapled some black netting to this . |
| 6 | How I made a killing from death |
| 7 | ‘ I bring a message from the Sheriff , ’ the boy gasped . |
| 8 | I bring a message from on high — |
| 9 | I met a soldier from the Rifle Brigade who was very drunk , and I made him drunker . |
| 10 | ‘ I had never heard of the area when I met a teacher from there in 1973 but we became friends and I started to visit . |
| 11 | I sought a mandate from my constituents to oppose the poll tax and made it plain exactly what I would do . |
| 12 | ‘ Like Disneyland , ’ said the innocent , first-time Tory delegate with whom I shared a cab from the station . |
| 13 | How long has it been since I got a present from a girl ? |
| 14 | I got a porthole from the Fulforn when it was being sent off for being scrapped . |
| 15 | I got a chicken from there other day , I went for a joint of pork I thought oh I 'll have a couple of them joints , fetch a couple back and er I says it 's not Christmas now you know . |
| 16 | ‘ The night he disappeared I got a call from a woman who said she 'd taken him because he looked abandoned , ’ Arkie explained . |
| 17 | I got a call from the Chairman of a company , asking if I would be willing to spend some more time — on learning to use a completely new keyboard used by the then-new British system called Microwriter . |
| 18 | ‘ One time , back in the Metaltronix days , I got a call from a violinist who was in one of the Philharmonic orchestras , and she was using a Perfect Connection preamp for her electric violin . |
| 19 | ‘ I got a call from a cop who asked if I owned it . |
| 20 | Then one day in the summer of 1989 — around the time that I had signed a contract to go on the second rebel tour of South Africa — I got a call from Australia that came as a bombshell . |
| 21 | I got a call from their Deputy Director , Robert Bailey , this morning . |
| 22 | ‘ I got a call from the girl , ’ he said . |
| 23 | ‘ I had intended to be , but I got a call from my special friend and spent the afternoon with him . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Yeah , I got a call from Pollock . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I got a call from Mike Slide — have you met him ? ’ |
| 26 | About ten or eleven at night I got a call from the US embassy … |
| 27 | I go I got a call from him you see and that 's . |
| 28 | ‘ At some point I was torn between two or three different possibilities of how to go ahead ’ said Christina Gillespie , the secretary of the group , ‘ when I got a phone-call from the Salvation Army , saying that they were praying for me . |
| 29 | Subject : I got a reply from Tonys mother : - ) — Wow ! |
| 30 | As it happens , there 'd be a certain rough justice if I got a wage from it . |