Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] a [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It wo n't do to be saying it backwards , or inside out , or to be missing a bit out that 's important , or adding a piece from another enchantment . |
| 2 | But according to the questionnaire I recently sent you , over 20% of our customers are achieving this — by working or running a business from home . |
| 3 | Registry staff must be able to process information without introducing delays , whether it is receiving data from a student and subsequently providing an updated record for that student or taking a request from a lecturer for a list and providing it at short notice or processing an offer made by an admissions tutor so that the candidate hears from PCAS as quickly as possible . |
| 4 | Expeditions or crewing a vessel from one country to another . |
| 5 | Furthermore , I do not see that fastening a label from ancient philosophy upon Wordsworth — in this case to call him a ‘ Pantheist ’ — is particularly helpful ; we are simply consigning him to a museum of dead ideas . |
| 6 | ‘ — is about , what , seven times — eight times ! — more expensive than getting a coach from Gloucester Green to Victoria ? ’ |
| 7 | It is fair to say that in the last instance , it will not actually produce a design with the colours separated out into their appropriate rows , but will make a card design showing the colours so that punching a card from this is made easier . |
| 8 | Students are taught , for instance , to ‘ read ’ in a different way from that of everyday practice : rather than reading a text from beginning to end in the sequence in which the publisher has ordered it , they are urged to select what they want for particular purposes from different parts of the text , using the contents page , index , chapter headings etc. and moving backwards and forwards within that text and to other texts . |
| 9 | A girl in a duffel coat and jeans was taking an early lunch in the corner , reading a magazine and eating a sandwich from an open plastic container on the seat beside her . |
| 10 | But why be wrestling with this God and seeking a blessing from him — other than if one believes that the text is of God ? |
| 11 | I had two additional problems : my age and getting a reference from someone . |
| 12 | Angela Kinsella , 28 , of High Northgate , Darlington , was sentenced to a month 's imprisonment yesterday for causing fear or provocation of violence , resisting a police constable and stealing a shirt from a clothes shop . |
| 13 | Eventually I gave up hope of ever seeing my Mom again , and stealing a penny from beneath a milk bottle , bought a platform ticket and stowed away in the goods wagon of a train bound — I thought — for Sheffield and my beloved Grandfather . |
| 14 | The groups took part in a number of incident simulations — attending to accident victims at the scene of an air crash , getting to the roof of a four storey burning building using an ariel slide to get down and rescuing a pilot from the bottom of a swimming pool . |
| 15 | Dawyck Gardens could be an expensive taxi journey from Peebles as they are not on the back road to Innerleithen ; the Southern Upland Way is 212 miles long , not 202 ; Dunslair Heights can best be reached from Lee Pen by sticking to the ridge and taking a firebreak from the south ; and the suggested route from Byrness to Chew Green along Harden Edge saves no distance over the normal route outside the fence , while taking the walker one kilometre inside the MOD warning signs . |
| 16 | What therefore is there to prevent a taxpayer from putting his shares in the name of a nominee and obtaining a deduction from his higher rate tax liability for the nominee 's expenses of management ? |
| 17 | If I could do that sort of thing I would be writing books and making a fortune from them . |
| 18 | When Cecil Beaton went to photograph the Royal Family in 1960 , he found the eleven-year-old Prince Charles overawed by the atmosphere , ‘ as if awaiting a clout from behind , or for his father to tweak his ear or pull the tuft of hair at the crown of his head ’ . |
| 19 | Andrei Kozyrev , Russian Foreign Minister , visited the USA on Nov. 25-27 , meeting Secretary of State James Baker and delivering a message from Yeltsin to President Bush . |
| 20 | The flat seemed cold and empty when she let herself in several hours later , and discovering a message from Kelly on the answering-machine brought no respite from the depression which had settled over her like a heavy black cloud . |
| 21 | This probably led to the practice which still exists of advertising agencies buying space in newspapers ( or time on television ) and receiving a commission from the media owner . |
| 22 | But he stayed on the move and following a scholarship from the Paderewski Foundation travelled to India , where he got food poisoning , Peru , where he taught art for two years , and Morocco where he met his first wife . |
| 23 | as if anticipating a question from Blanche , the SOCO pointed to the screw joining the two blades . |
| 24 | Round this broken area a big , blond young man in stained corduroys and a donkey jacket was busy erecting a system of iron posts striped in red and white , and stringing a rope from them to cordon off the slip . |
| 25 | ‘ Our idea of fun is getting an audience to confront issues and eliciting a response from them , ’ says main man Adam Sherburne . |
| 26 | This is immediately expanded to " the little boy Mrs Moreen had sent out of the room to fetch her fan " — again , a point of immediate situational relevance , but involving a step from the present into the recent past . |
| 27 | Some cuts , but steering a way from too many job losses is the option favoured by the liberal democrats . |
| 28 | The DSS , he says , made its surprise offer while processing a claim from a former lover , ex-Bunny girl Joanne Eggleton , who has a daughter by him . |
| 29 | He admired her efforts to make a little money by freelance writing , whilst awaiting a divorce from the husband who had deserted her . |
| 30 | He failed to control the ball when intercepting a pass from Chris Malkin 30 yards from goal and Pat Nevin nipped in and slipped away to guide a shot inside goalkeeper Kevin Poole and the near post . |