Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] from the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not restitutionary because these defendants have received nothing from the investors and so have nothing that they can restore . |
| 2 | I usually make her coffee , and if she runs out of fags or needs summat from the shops , I go for her . |
| 3 | But because he accepts something from the philosophers ' view , a view which leads to scepticism , he himself runs the risk of it . |
| 4 | Even though he does accept common-sense beliefs , he also accepts something from the philosophers which common sense would not . |
| 5 | No true blue inhabitant of Paradise Street or Mouncy Street ever needed to be told anything from the police ; they had ways of finding out . ) |
| 6 | It is regrettable that the judge heard nothing from the appellants ' side , despite the fact that they were represented — no oral evidence , no affidavit evidence , not even an address in mitigation . |
| 7 | Though Catholicism is championed in the end , it is no longer portrayed as having the power to protect one from the extremes of madness and sin . |
| 8 | If there is a country house surrounded by grounds and the public has access to the grounds but not to the house , a s.11(1) offence is not committed when the accused removes something from the grounds . |
| 9 | She had n't been able to read anything from the ice-chips that stared back at her . |
| 10 | Gloves or shoes would effectively protect one from the effects . |
| 11 | ‘ Once you start taking people from poor families you might well be tempted to concentrate just on them , and in the end you wo n't be taking anyone from the streets at all . ’ |
| 12 | Nowadays ‘ Traditional English ’ can mean anything from the roasts and bread-and-butter puddings of old establishments like Rules or Simpson 's to the nouvelle Britannique cuisine of some of the newer , trendier restaurants . |
| 13 | But the cubicle in which the yellow sheet had been found could reveal no further secrets , and all hope had early been abandoned of learning anything from the scores of footprints which had criss-crossed the grassy area since the murder . |
| 14 | The first thing she would have to do was to raise some capital so that she could rescue something from the dregs of her father 's business . |
| 15 | ‘ John Patten seems to have learnt nothing from the faults of his predecessors , ’ she said . |
| 16 | However each can learn something from the others , and it is thanks to International co-operation on this level that the RNLI began to operate the Waveney ( originally an American coastguard design ) , and that the Canadians now build and operate the Arun class . |