Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] from [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But , Terry , surely we hide nothing from each other ? ’ |
| 2 | For years the result has been frequent power blackouts for Orcadians as the birds ' elaborate home-making habits — incorporating everything from barbed wire and steel mesh to tin cans and nails — caused the electricity supply to short-circuit . |
| 3 | The kit contains everything from antiseptic cream and scissors to a thermometer . |
| 4 | Explaining the philosophy which has been his strength from his earliest days in the Ledley Hall club with Herbie Young and his former employer Bill Robson he said : ‘ If you want anything from this sport you have to work exceedingly hard for it . |
| 5 | He ended with one of his most beautiful and profound utterances : ‘ Do you know what frees one from this captivity ? |
| 6 | In theory , the UN 's definition of human rights , as expressed in 1948 , embraces everything from arbitrary arrest to an adequate standard of living . |
| 7 | There are three restaurants , serving everything from traditional American to Japanese fare . |
| 8 | His favourite radio show was Ryuichi Sakamoto 's — ‘ He played everything from Indian music to Erik Satie ’ — so he sent Sakamoto a tape , who broadcast it twice , and ‘ we became a good relationship ’ . |
| 9 | Humans have n't met anyone from another world but they 've still got experts in talking to them . ’ |
| 10 | Dinners — select one from each section , i.e. a starter , main course and dessert . |
| 11 | X , who did not have one in stock , contracted to buy one from Four Point Garage . |
| 12 | Amid Victorian elegance enjoy everything from tasty bar snacks and meals to superb à la carte dinners . |
| 13 | Really good dishwashers will clean everything from fine china and glass to encrusted saucepans and casseroles with settings that range from gentle wash to super scrub cycles . |
| 14 | And technologists have applied scientific theories with some spectacular results : generating everything from nuclear power to moon rockets to holographs of the Eiffel Tower on Rice Krispies packets . |
| 15 | They sell everything from expired penicillin injections , pirated cassettes and old clothes to skin lightening creams — ‘ As Used by Top American Society ’ . |
| 16 | Critical for hooking Alphas and VAXes , DEC said the platform would be protocol-independent , capable of handling everything from multi-vendor PC LANs to multi-vendor mainframes . |
| 17 | It 's just one example of where the British Red Cross training can be integrated into the national curriculum teaching everything from first aid to hazards in the home . |
| 18 | Right , if you 've got ta do three essays now from six you have to do one from each section , then you 're gon na do either two of developmental , o it 's unclear exactly what the breakdown will be on that .. |
| 19 | If this occurs , try to contain such behaviour by discouraging anyone from sexual activity or from exposing themselves in public . |
| 20 | The weather in the region is quite amazing , you get anything from brilliant sunshine through to biting winds and complete white-outs , sometimes changing from one to the other in a matter of minutes . |
| 21 | ‘ They included everything from long jump and discus to middle-distance running , ’ she said . |
| 22 | If the March crisis over missile modernisation now seems something from another era , so too do the fears of the summer . |
| 23 | ‘ We can take something from this game and be positive that we were down but came away with the point . |
| 24 | The remaining third covered anything from thermal insulation and heating through to fire safety and maintenance problems . |
| 25 | Wilkinson knows he must bolster his defence if the champions are to salvage anything from this season and the 25-year-old joins QPR right-back David Bardsley and Wimbledon centre-half John Scales as possible saviours . |
| 26 | ‘ You know I would n't take anything from that woman , and I do n't know how you can , Maria . ’ |
| 27 | These cases have the very valuable result of getting a clear decision from the House of Lords , upheld in this respect by the European Court of Human Rights which took nothing from that decision , that such former members owe a lifelong duty of confidentiality . |
| 28 | Whether the coffin-maker produced a bespoke outer case or took one from existing stock is not known , though logic argues in favour of the latter . |
| 29 | Before 1977 there had been no formal ranking of the local authorities , and more than seventy had gained something from Urban Programme expenditure . |
| 30 | Nor did she think she could hide anything from this man with the golden eyes . |