Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] from [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it may now be accepted that so long as a historian is acting as a historian , his criteria must arise from his own study and must not be imported from some other autonomous field . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | He changes slowly from messing Lennie around and playing stupid jokes on him , to treating Lennie as a friend , a companion , but someone he must protect from his own strength and stupidity . |
| 4 | ‘ The decision must come from your own heart , querida . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | The reproof of Beatrice is not , I conceive , as remote as it might seem from our own world . |
| 7 | He had hit the right note of playful yet dignified affection with the children — mischievous Sam Yaxley had proved an ally there ; and even throughout the days of his own distress he had comforted the sick and sorrowful , acting in the simple trust that , however removed chose impoverished lives might seem from his own , they were members of one another . |
| 8 | We had yet to learn that the " problems " the Keraing was anticipating could come from our own crew , and that Ladjang 's job as our intermediary with them was to call on all his diplomatic skills and moral courage . |
| 9 | In 1975 France started a detailed evaluation of the minerals it could obtain from its own soil . |
| 10 | So much passion ought to stem from something much more than lust , especially when the man it held in its toils was one of Luke 's calibre . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Junkies would travel from their own neighbourhood to the Lower East Side or Harlem to cop , because the dope was cheaper and better quality there . |
| 13 | Only ministers who have no understanding of either Local Government or Social Services would shrink from their own responsibilities in this way . |
| 14 | However good our schools , there will emerge from them some people , quite capable of looking after themselves and of having a simple job , whose reading age will never be more than 8 or 9 . |
| 15 | ‘ The government keeps putting out figures on waiting lists , but people will judge from their own experience . |
| 16 | For the mother who finds breast feeding terribly difficult and there are so many of these — the solemn pronouncements she will hear from her own parents and from health visitors , obstetricians and other professional people can lead to real emotional and mental suffering . |
| 17 | The argument from analogy supposes that you can construct from your own case a concept of pains which can be felt by others rather than by you . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | The implicature we can draw from it all is that Anderson 's enthusiasm for the topic overrides his concern for his positive face , but that the conflict between these two concerns remains , and is visible in the nervous flaws in his linguistic performance . |
| 20 | This example , and many others which I am sure my readers can supply from their own experience , clearly reveals the true nature of student and much other protest . |
| 21 | You should be equal to whatever you can evoke from your own impulses . |