Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | His plan for Bearwood ( Fig. 21 ) , executed in 1865–74 for John Walter , chief proprietor of The Times , and included in The Gentleman 's House , is an expression of what Mark Girouard describes as the Victorian ‘ genius for analysis and definition ’ , a genius which led them to classify everything from insects through households to societies . |
| 2 | The severe psychological damage inflicted upon the captive Biros led them to tear themselves from their shackles and plunge into toilet bowls , become suicidally entangled about gear sticks or wrap themselves around handlebars . |
| 3 | ‘ Doctor Volkov asked me to collect something from her office . |
| 4 | er and therefore for that very reason do not like to see the Government going in for a whole series of embarrassing defeats er and erm getting into very grave difficulties with an important Bill and I therefore arise only to ask my Noble Friend er at the last minute would like to consider very seriously erm a conciliatory reply of whether accepting er the amendments with er or er or some of them er with er er er view to their reconsideration or asking those who propose them to defer them from to from today 's sitting , there 's still further sittings ahead , but whether he was prepared to ask them to give him a chance to reflect without incurring serious Government defeats to reflect further on whether further amendments can not and should not be made . |
| 5 | You expect me to detach myself from my non-bourgeois essence … to honour your gods , your fathers , your Revolution … |
| 6 | Where d' ya get them from Joyce ? |
| 7 | Where d' ya get them from ? |
| 8 | Where d' ya get them from ? |
| 9 | Chicken royal , where d' ya get them from ? |
| 10 | Where d' ya get it from ? |
| 11 | Where d' ya get it from . |
| 12 | Where d' ya get it from ? |
| 13 | Where d' you get it from anyway ? ’ |
| 14 | Where d' you get em from those things . |
| 15 | I want you to drive me from King 's Cross down to the cottage , right ? |
| 16 | When he does , I want you to follow him from afar off . |
| 17 | And much better you have it from the start . |
| 18 | Only her resolve not to irritate him prevented her from letting the scissors stray towards his temptingly close ears , and she swallowed hard on the furious retort which jumped to her lips . |
| 19 | Her choice of career had surprised and confused the students competing against her for jobs , but she 'd never allowed the unspoken disapproval that had surrounded her to deter her from her goal . |
| 20 | Robbe-Grillet 's insistence upon the essentially ludic dimension of all of his fiction ( and cinema ) was also a means of escaping what might be termed the prison-house of reflexivity ; it was not uncommon to find him distancing himself from Ricardou , even during the conference devoted to his work in 1975 , at which he claimed that even his supposedly ‘ theoretical ’ utterances over the years should be construed as attempts to maintain plurality and mobility . |
| 21 | He felt uneasy when she smiled at this : he had expected her to defend him from his accusation of age . |
| 22 | Leonora whirled round , flushing as she found him watching her from the doorway . |
| 23 | The sheer beauty of their surroundings helped her to distance herself from the unsettling vibrations between them . |
| 24 | Like a zombie she let him lead her from Tivoli , allowed him to fasten the seatbelt of the Mercedes round her , followed him into the apartment , standing motionless while he switched on the soft wall lighting . |
| 25 | The British Trust for Conservation Volunteers say they welcome anyone from 17 to 70 ( address on page 152 ) . |
| 26 | Some say he took it from an Indian funeral chant , others from a poem by a U.S. poet Mary Fry , though no one seems to know anything else about the lady . |
| 27 | Let them save you from what is |
| 28 | Everyone thinks I 'm well now ; the doctors let me discharge myself from hospital , and consider my ‘ amenorrhoea ’ ( lack of periods ) a complete mystery , something to do with growing up . |
| 29 | ‘ Here , let me shield you from the wind . ’ |
| 30 | Let me take one from the passage read to us : Philippians 4 . |