Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] from [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From somewhere upstairs came the sound of a group of people singing songs from their own province . |
| 2 | The well-known argument is that the woman 's refusal to concede to sexual intercourse is totally unjustified , since the two bodies have in fact already been made one by a flea , who has been sucking blood from them both . |
| 3 | He had no right to demand payment from his own account . |
| 4 | If this is not possible it is up to the Partnership to provide funds from its own resources . |
| 5 | At the same time , exhibits must be low-key enough not to distract visitors from their own thoughts : Auschwitz is also a cemetery . |
| 6 | Having grabbed the initiative , Washington brusquely rebuffed the USSR when , anxious to gain credit in the Middle East and to distract attention from its own armed intervention in Hungary , it proposed joint action with the USA against the Anglo-French operation . |
| 7 | He said China 's rejection of his 1987 plan , which drew criticism from his own supporters as being too conciliatory , was forcing him to rethink his approach . |
| 8 | The , the last thing the explorer wants on holiday is to meet people from their own country . |
| 9 | The above implicitly has individuals gaining utility from their own incomes . |
| 10 | Mr Wright , who lives at Hedgerows , Harleston Road , is seeking sponsors for his planned jump and has already received donations from his former employer , Thames Valley Eggs , and from the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society . |
| 11 | He recalls how , seeing England from his own urban American background he has always been aware that the natural habitat of the Englishman was the little rural community and that industrial and large towns were accepted with reluctance . |
| 12 | Bradshaw and Millar found that only 29 per cent of lone parents received maintenance from their former partners . |
| 13 | Mrs Burrows is famous for her ices , she uses cream from her own cows — ’ |
| 14 | Sainsbury 's was the first retailer to eliminate CFCs from its own brand aerosols . |
| 15 | Harmonia Mundi have recently issued a three-disc set ( for the price of one ) entitled ‘ Philippe Herreweghe : portrait d'un artiste ’ , which features excerpts from his many recordings for the label . |
| 16 | The flight safety officials receive reports from their own flight crews and engineering staff , and keep checks on operational irregularities and monitor the investigations of all the flight safety incidents such as engine shut-downs in flight , selection of emergency systems , component failure in flight and procedural shortcomings . |
| 17 | Instead , they receive benefits from their own parents . |
| 18 | Bringing together the world of books and music , it includes extracts from their own writings , contemporary anecdotes and impressions and songs by composers such as Handel , Haydn , Mozart and Mendelssohn , as well as two from Anne 's Song Book . |
| 19 | However — and I say this with some pride and gratitude — Lord Darlington never made any efforts to conceal things from my own eyes and ears ; I can recall on numerous occasions , some personage breaking off in mid-sentence to glance warily towards my person , only for his lordship to say : ‘ Oh , that 's all right . |
| 20 | The autocratic style is common in many organisations , and you will perhaps be able to identify examples from your own experience . |
| 21 | So far she is only able to see things from her own point of view . |
| 22 | We are committed , morally and politically , to treating everyone as free , with a right to see things from his own standpoint and make his own decisions . |
| 23 | Our ordinary selfishness in practice is relative , a matter of tending to put reactions from our own viewpoints first . |
| 24 | Our assessment has always been , and continues to be , of a very … complex kind , because what is happening is that people are getting feedback from us all by working with us . |
| 25 | There is therefore no question , in contrast to I.T.C. Film Distributors Ltd. v. Video Exchange Ltd. , of the defendants seeking to draw benefit from their own contempt . |
| 26 | In contrast , rich households , which get wood from their own land , depend on logs . |
| 27 | Athelstan asked , trying to draw Cranston from his own dark thoughts . |
| 28 | When parents exclude children from their own grief it can make the child feel that the awful event that has taken place is a punishment for which they are in part responsible . |
| 29 | They are able to give examples from their own organisations . |
| 30 | South Korea was incapable of providing parts from its own production or from foreign exchange . |