Example sentences of "[verb] from [pron] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way , the Nez Perce developed a distinctive culture fused from their own traditions and those of the Plains and North-west Coast . |
| 2 | Any resistance or reluctance by the scion to take everything , perhaps because it is getting some of what it needs from its own roots , and the stock has to start looking for ways to get rid of the unused energy , and that means making its own top growth , which takes the form of suckers or ‘ briars ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ As you should know from your own experiences ’ — he glanced up at the framed portrait of Commonweal School staff and pupils , September 1948 — ‘ the notion that the camera never lies is a fallacy . |
| 4 | Together , these mean that piglets need protecting from their own mothers as well as from other sows . |
| 5 | Transport was scarce and we had to carry special identity cards when we moved from our own villages . |
| 6 | Che Guevara , whose analysis stemmed from his own experiences in Guatemala in 1954 ( Hodges : 1977 , pp. 15–16 ) , said , in an interview given on 18 April 1959 : |
| 7 | Delegates agreed to open Eureka 's project database to east European companies and research institutes , although funding would , as in other countries , have to come from their own resources or from the governments ( which had so far provided less than 30 per cent of funding ) . |
| 8 | Directors chipped in with their ideas of picking a team , and niggled when , umpteen people having poked their noses and opinions in , a team emerged and inevitably differed from their several choices . ’ |
| 9 | In order for an apparent consent or refusal of consent to be less than a true consent or refusal , there must be such a degree of external influence as to persuade the patient to depart from her own wishes , to an extent that the law regards it as undue . |
| 10 | Profits for the individual firm , they argue , often depend far more on these factors than on the surplus value to be exploited from their own workers . |
| 11 | During this period a group of Country Whigs , led by Robert Harley and Paul Foley , separated from their former allies who were in office , and united with Country and out-of-office Tories to promote place bills , triennial bills , and measures against corruption . |
| 12 | • Black women are forced to spend their lives separated from their own children . |
| 13 | In their extreme forms the ‘ techniques ’ school would have it that an actor 's performance is detached from his own feelings during performance , that he represents a distillation of what he understands of the character 's feelings ; the Stanislavkian actor , on the other hand , becomes emotionally involved as he performs his role . |
| 14 | ‘ Many people expect a standard from members of the Royal Family , which they do n't expect from their own families . |
| 15 | If we read ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ through with Tate 's commentary at our elbow , we see at any given point what he means : he has a good ear , as we might expect from his own poems ( which are however metrical , as ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ is n't ) . |
| 16 | " They filled their mission tins over and over with money they collected from selling fruit and vegetables from garden , eggs from their hens , and jams and preserves made from their own grapes and citrus fruit . " |
| 17 | Thereafter the sees were filled ; Sidonius himself returned to Clermont , where the chief opposition to him came from his own clergy . |
| 18 | In areas with long nursery waiting lists it has been usual for governors to establish admission panels drawn from their own members . |
| 19 | When at last they sat down to eat , a small crowd of children had gathered in the doorway , drawn from their own homes by the smell of puris frying , knowing from this that today was a special occasion . |
| 20 | Subjective assessments are said to be less acceptable , but I offer mine , nevertheless , drawn from my own studies of the literature of the project ( including one evaluation so far completed ) , from talks with project workers and brief visits to schools . |
| 21 | Elean : So the story Devil at a Dead End , which deals with some of the experiences of a young Black South African girl crossing the border from Lesotho , was drawn from your own experiences ? |
| 22 | They are able to identify from their own records those types who are the loyal customers — where average order value is highest , where bad debt is lowest , and where responsiveness to mailshots is highest . |
| 23 | Many teachers , I have found , can remember from their own schooldays the shock and guilt they felt when a teacher finally broke down in the face of what , to the class , had seemed to be ‘ just having a bit of fun ’ . |
| 24 | A staid nun , with a set routine and customs ; you would remember from your few weeks in the novitiate how careful Dame Frances was to douse the fire with water . |
| 25 | Then there are those we can all remember from our own schooldays who just ca n't teach at all , though we are unable to recall from our own experience any example of the stratagem reported by one of our informants . |
| 26 | ‘ It appears that the Barnes lawyers and , by inference , the National Gallery of Art did not want to hear from me any comments questioning the indecent and dangerous haste in the timetable for the exhibition ’ , Stolow wrote in a 29 March letter to a member of Congress . |
| 27 | From 1823 he produced a series of plates illustrating his discoveries , largely engraved from his own drawings , entitled The Durobrivae of Antoninus . |
| 28 | His earnings will be doubled by a pensions package from his former employers . |
| 29 | A certain number of finishers and polishers were drafted from their own shops to a section of the body shop , where the bodymakers framed up and panelled doors . |
| 30 | Sleep is not a single process , as we know from our own experiences . |