Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [adj] from [art] " in BNC.

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1 The office block on the Albert Embankment which houses his penthouse looks nothing special from the outside — a drab 1960s monstrosity in concrete and glass .
2 Successful litigants who are vindictive , or excessively conscientious , or who fear that they will be liable to litigation themselves if they fail to extract everything possible from a claim , might well pursue the individual partners for their assets .
3 If you want something different from the standard offerings of garden centres , order fledgling plants in plugs of soil , and seedlings .
4 If you have a group of parents who want something particular from a school and are going to organise themselves into a group to pressurise that school , they 'll do it whether there 's a P T A there or not .
5 I 'm really surprised that you expect something logical from an outfit that released their second album well in the wake of their third .
6 Not only Euclid , but Galileo too , had grown something worthwhile from the seeds of natural reason .
7 You remove anything sharp from the workbench surface and check there 's nothing within reach of her legs .
8 I would n't expect this to happen in a capitalist country so why expect anything different from the USSR ?
9 Then it gives me great pleasure now to erm I always knew that John al , has had something different from the rest of us you know he has that kind of air does n't he , that that status in the pulpit which you know , ?
10 To lose one bomb's-worth from the stock is the equivalent of losing a single word from one of three copies of The Economist .
11 But , if it 's only hanging by a thread , let it fall apart and build something new from the components .
12 ‘ It really should have somebody sensible from the Exchequer to look at it . ’
13 The language helper is the expert on his/her language do not rebuke him/her for saying something different from the day before — there must be a reason ( if you were right in your observation ) .
14 ‘ You find anything useful from the scene-of-crime report ?
15 They were evidently hearing something different from the rest of us now , for we would watch them slow-dance to the fastest beat , and then , on the next record , see them execute perfect and elaborate improvised arabesques , all fast footwork and impassioned arms , in the gaps of a slow blues .
16 But I really can not remember the last time I went out and bought something new from a retailer — other than test kits and silicon sealant .
17 I took this to mean that he was suicidal , so I immediately went upstairs and removed anything harmful from the bathroom .
18 Fans of the band 's music do n't particularly get anything extra from the rag-arsed studio orphan ‘ Do n't Give Me No Lip , Child ’ or the ‘ Live At Trondheim ’ CD which ends , in tribute to ‘ Metallic KO ’ , with the sounds of dumped instruments and broken bottles .
19 Imagination from other viewpoints depends on my having already perceived something analogous from the then present and my own , and is undernourished if I was distracted at the time by consideration of the future or of others .
20 However it is evident that he intended something different from the simple a cappella doubling of voices by instruments , and this ‘ something different ’ became known as the ‘ concerted style ’ ( stile concertato ) , a ‘ consort ’ of voices and instruments .
21 She had banned everything Irish from the house , burnt any newspapers or pamphlets that he brought home , and even searched his room for unsuitable material .
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