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

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1 In other words the mainstream right has gained nothing from the rejection of the Socialists .
2 Norman Lamont has learned nothing from the debacle of the past months .
3 They were adamant that it had been clear all along , they 'd suspected something from the start .
4 I did n't believe he 'd got anything from the card .
5 He turned professional in 1885 having won everything from the half-mile to the ten-mile AAA 's events .
6 As I had no access to the Swansea accounts during that time , it was clear I could n't have embezzled anything from the company .
7 ‘ We gave away two stupid goals but still would have got something from the game if we had taken the chances we created . ’
8 He could have got one from the kitchen , but I expect he 'd locked up after he 'd brought the supper up . ’
9 Petitions from communities , or common petitions , were few in Edward 's reign , and though they may have derived something from the example of clerical grievances , they could hardly have failed to have developed from private petitions .
10 However , it seemed that each sex could have learnt something from the other on this occasion ; by the end of the day , the beautifully laid-out nursery , ready to provide the young arrivals with constructive play activities , was reduced to utter chaos from the tidal force of juvenile anarchy .
11 ‘ In an ideal world , I would have been delighted to have had someone from the university on the trust . ’
12 In this respect Wilson seems to have learned nothing from the earlier failure of the NAS&FU .
13 I suggest that , instead of choosing the mad scene from Lucia di Lammermoor for his desert island disc , the Prime Minister would have done better to have chosen something from the Beggar 's Opera because there is a whole chorus on the London streets which could join in .
14 ‘ John Patten seems to have learnt nothing from the faults of his predecessors , ’ she said .
15 After the first report he had heard nothing from the boy .
16 I I asked the er the minister earlier about this question and I appreciate his difficulties being a home office minister rather than a foreign office minister and I quite understand his reluctance to er stray too far from his departmental portfolio but the reality is that the British government agreed that the European parliament should continue to meet in Strasbourg but we 've heard nothing from the minister as to where the money should come from er in order to make that commitment a reality because I 'm sure that every member opposite would say that the uncertainty about the present boundaries is not the er responsibility of the British government , that it 's a matter for the French government to sort out which boundaries er will be in place in the United Kingdom by June the ninth , the date of the European elections , but the reality is that the British government have gone along with the arrangement for having Strasbourg recognised as a er seat for the European parliament .
17 Well November , I meant the fourth of November it seems to be for ever anyway I spoke to the Head of the Department when they came back and he said I must admit we 've done nothing from the point of view of putting things on paper but a lot of thinking has gone into it I must really sit down now and commit things to paper .
18 We 've got somebody from the Oxford English er dictionary compilation er arena , with us today and I , I , I 'm almost tempted to ask Clare what wh what , what the definition of the word quality is actually .
19 I 've got someone from the village coming in every day to check that no one tries making a nuisance of themselves .
20 no they 'll think that you 've nicked one from the Co-Op wo n't they ?
21 Celia and Brassard , who had overheard everything from the outer office , exchanged rueful glances .
22 He was left with the distinct feeling that he had encountered someone from the spirit world on that early midsummer 's morning .
23 They were reinstated by the deputy chief constable on the grounds that the investigation by the Police Complaints Authority had produced no evidence that they had removed anything from the Crown Court file .
24 On 11 August , on being informed of this , the chief constable , Mr. Geoffrey Dear , suspended the officers Woodley and Clifford and ordered an inquiry to be supervised by the P.C.A. On 9 February 1990 it was announced by the deputy chief constable that the investigation had produced no evidence that the officers Woodley and Clifford had removed anything from the court file .
25 Not that the early issues had learnt anything from the underground .
26 She 's heard nothing from the , the hospital they after the tests .
27 So far they have received nothing from the Government , little EC assistance and are running out of funds donated by individuals and industry .
28 It is not restitutionary because these defendants have received nothing from the investors and so have nothing that they can restore .
29 And so I have done something from a plane .
30 ‘ Me old man 's got one from the market to burn but you can 'ave it , ’ said Rosa , who had already started with her sixth child .
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