Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] from [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The team played better but failed to profit from their many spells of domination . |
| 2 | The team played better but failed to profit from their many spells of domination . |
| 3 | ‘ I assume you made it worth her while in other ways , but obviously I failed to discover from her own fair lips how much you thought she was worth , and I 'm damned sure you wo n't admit how much you 've paid over the odds for her favours . ’ |
| 4 | It is difficult to reject the view that he was genuinely anxious , first not to appear to profit from his own actions in bringing about the downfall of the Coalition , and second to strengthen the new Government , which he thought , probably mistakenly , that Mckenna would do . |
| 5 | When bidding farewell to Porua , I tried to extract from him some word of praise for my activities on behalf of his paper . |
| 6 | Geoff is married , has a young family and has moved from his former home in West Yorkshire to Barmill . |
| 7 | There will be lectures and seminars , to which teachers will be expected to contribute from their own experience , and in which taped and transcribed texts from their classrooms , and written work produced by their pupils will be discussed and analysed . |
| 8 | Exactly 40 years separate the shots , which show just how much Puerto Rico has benefited from its own ‘ industrial revolution ’ . |
| 9 | Taken on around Whitsuntide , such men were provided with a cottage for the period of the hire , and in return were expected to supply from their own meagre resources a ‘ bondager ’ — a woman who would perform field-work or any other menial farm duty required of her . |
| 10 | However , sometimes the knowledge that a horse has acquired from its own species brings an unexpected result for the horse when used in relation to us . |
| 11 | so I hope to hear from her this week . |
| 12 | ‘ It appears that the Barnes lawyers and , by inference , the National Gallery of Art did not want to hear from me any comments questioning the indecent and dangerous haste in the timetable for the exhibition ’ , Stolow wrote in a 29 March letter to a member of Congress . |
| 13 | ‘ Why should Craig want to steal from his own company and what 's more share the proceeds with an accountant ? ’ |
| 14 | Michelangelo 's works have a strong , peculiar and marked character : they seem to proceed from his own mind entirely , and that mind so rich and abundant , that he never needed , or seems to disdain , to look abroad for foreign help . |
| 15 | So , I mean these are the supporters that they , they 've got to sort of focus on erm even i he does say that some of the erm er leaders of the associations are n't actually up to scratch but he says eighty five percent of them are and it would be wrong to attack or to arrest , you know , the other fifteen percent and it 's got to come from their own discipline of the association , you let the movement grow together , do n't try and er become er , you know , resisting forces because er these are the people who we 've got to erm s stay with and to look after , to harness erm to work for and er so that 's basically , is his conclusion . |
| 16 | If you have a view on that O nine O four six four one six four one and I 'd like to hear from you all you have to do is pick up the phone and give me a f a call now sorry . |
| 17 | On the hour the news and weather and we 'd like to hear from you this afternoon . |
| 18 | On the hour the news and weather and we 'd like to hear from you this afternoon . |
| 19 | On the hour the news and weather and we 'd like to hear from you this afternoon Nottingham three four three four three four the number to ring if you 'd like to have a chat on the air . |
| 20 | On the hour the news and weather , and we 'd like to hear from you this afternoon cos we have a phone-in and you can take part and have a chat on the air . |
| 21 | Marlowe chooses to escape from his own Elizabethan society to a land of innocent pursuits where his shepherd asks a young lady , ‘ Come live with me and be my love ’ . |
| 22 | CHILD superstar Macaulay Culkin 's next role could be as a boy who gets divorced from his own parents . |
| 23 | The reflection implied that this tract of wild land might have come from my own time , the epicentre of the disturbance , and so might be instrumental in restoring me to my own day ! |
| 24 | As a Jumièges monk , some of his information may have derived from its former abbot , Robert , who became bishop of London and then in 1051 archbishop of Canterbury , but fled England during the political crisis of 1052 , subsequently returning to Jumièges , where he died . |
| 25 | Callaghan 's mistake may have derived from his own inability to grasp the significance of media images irrespective of how closely they did or did not correlate with some other version of ‘ reality ’ . |
| 26 | This group is in many ways similar to the elderly , except that they are less likely to be able to contribute to care from their own resources and are therefore more likely to receive a free service wherever they are placed . |
| 27 | Paviour greeted the visitor with immaculate politeness , but a certain air of acid disapproval which might well have stemmed from nothing more than nervousness . |
| 28 | But , equally significantly , surface appearance draws meaning from its own context . |
| 29 | Hyacinth felt excluded from it all , and rather wished she had waited for Carole Swan , or for Angela Cartwright , the delegation 's leader . |
| 30 | I 'm bound to say that they failed to learn from their own history after nineteen-eighteen , so that they did in effect repeat erm their history a second time with disastrous consequences for everybody . |