Example sentences of "[verb] from [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they approach the valley overlooked by the Mountain of God , he asks her to accept from him the gift of a necklace . |
| 2 | While Biedermann and Baur were in accord with Hegel 's aim to combine Christianity and speculative philosophy , others drew from him the material for frontal attacks on Christian belief , notably Strauss , Feuerbach and Marx . |
| 3 | He drew from it the photograph of Elsie McAndrew that he had shown to Mrs Wilson in London . |
| 4 | Either the C scribe or one of his predecessors added to the 1017 entry that the ætheling Eadwig was afterwards killed , and ( perhaps inadvertently ) omitted from it the expulsion of Eadwig king of the ceorls , which appears under 1020 ; the information in 1030 that Olaf " was afterwards holy " ( i.e. regarded as a saint ) must also have been included at a fairly late stage in C 's composition . |
| 5 | Its bare outlines were that in a Luton car park a gang of four men had shot dead a sub-postmaster while trying to obtain from him the post office keys . |
| 6 | Bear in mind that if a total loss occurs you still have to pay any outstanding instalments and if a Motor policy is cancelled you are liable for premiums up to the date we receive from you the Certificate(s) of Insurance . |
| 7 | To counteract that feeling , and while he propped her ‘ injured ’ foot on a stool and attended to her bruising , she opened her bag and extracted from it the envelope with Cara had handed over to her . |
| 8 | She hoped it hid from him the blush that fired her cheeks . |
| 9 | I thereupon obtained from him the name of the solicitor instructed by Randolph , telephoned him and said that my own firm would accept service of the writ . |
| 10 | It did not of course escape Mommsen that there can hardly be a more foolish political speculation , " eine thorichtere politische Spekulation " , than to represent the Roman constitution as a mixed constitution and to derive from it the success of Rome ( Rom . |
| 11 | And in return , I promise you that if I get from you the reply for which I hope , I will be about your business presently . |
| 12 | If true observation statements are given , then it is possible to logically deduce from them the falsity of some universal statements , whereas it is not possible to deduce from them the truth of any universal statements . |
| 13 | If true observation statements are given , then it is possible to logically deduce from them the falsity of some universal statements , whereas it is not possible to deduce from them the truth of any universal statements . |
| 14 | ‘ Make way for the Lord Mayor , ’ she said one day on the front steps , as she moved her bucket aside , and he , bending over her , said , ‘ Many a true word spoken in jest , Rosie , ’ to which she had reacted quickly , saying , ‘ Yes , Mr Jones ; but those who sit on horsehair chairs generally get their bums scratched , ’ bringing from him the reaction of a push on the side of her head and their laughing together . |
| 15 | André Gide 's Les Fauxmonnayeurs ( 1926 ) , a novel characterized by self-reflexivity and self-consciousness , in which the device of mise en abyme ( or internal duplication ) is especially conspicuous , has perhaps not received from them the kind of attention that could be expected . |
| 16 | First , you time the length of the material to be trimmed at the beginning of the shot , and subtract from it the amount of the backspace ; this shorter length is then the point at which you set the tape early for the edit-in . |
| 17 | But this should not obscure from us the fact that Judaism resisted stoutly the prudery that stultified sexuality throughout the West , and always retained a high and honoured place for bodily functioning and its pleasures — as becomes indeed , a gift from God : ‘ Man and woman are one body and one soul , ( oneness reasserted , as ever ) , and it is this powerful union which it projects and enhances . |
| 18 | And he had once elicited from her the statement , ‘ I did not have what the English refer to as ‘ a good war ’ . ’ |
| 19 | You have not only derived from it the means of raising your subterranean wealth , but those also of rendering it available to the public . ’ |
| 20 | I thought of Tagore who said , ‘ withhold from me the things that man desire and want ; leave me only what they despise and overlook , they will be enough for me . ’ |
| 21 | But they went from him the way they did in dreams . |
| 22 | In the former , all of X , Y , and Z are shown — the relationships between their changes are illustrated and one could estimate from it the ways in which the various terms in the equations are bringing about the changes . |
| 23 | I could not disguise from her the gravity of the situation . |
| 24 | She did not expect letters but on hearing from her the news of Hal 's birth , they had at once despatched an enormous bearskin : a gift for the child . |
| 25 | Why hide from him the facts that she had been coming since ? |
| 26 | That the advertisement had been in a church magazine was , for my grandfather , sufficient guarantee of respectability , but when the boys arrived in the great city even their inexperience could not hide from them the fact that the respectable lodging was nothing more nor less than a brothel . |
| 27 | He opened the suitcase and took from it the carrier-bag with the Union Jack on it . |
| 28 | When the doctor had gone , he opened the top drawer of his desk and took from it the contents of Charlie Hatton 's pockets . |
| 29 | b ) collect from you the PAL master tapes for BUSINESS ASSIGNMENTS |
| 30 | On a lease purchase contract , this clause does not exist and if you regularly fail to pay properly , the Leasing Company will arrive , fly your plane away and auction it — and then collect from you the difference between what is outstanding on the lease and the amount realised at sale . |