Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] from [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Suzie 's always been more amenable to advice from men than she has from her own sex . |
| 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 I undo the hooks , I catch a fingernail and it dangles from my own by a thin string of adhesive . |
| 4 | It appears from my own and other research at present that in some schemes young people are used as cheap substitutes for regular workers and in others the content of the ‘ training ’ is very limited — leading to jobs otherwise classified as un- or semi-skilled ( Davies , 1986 . |
| 5 | It appears from my own research that while , overall , boys are seen to be less conformist , teachers prefer their type of classroom resistance to that of the girls . |
| 6 | Gould , it appears from his own references , was too busy collecting specimens to engage in an attempt to reach a remote part of the river . |
| 7 | It feeds from its own roots in the ground and a healthy tree will normally be unaffected by it . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman is merely trying to raise obscure scares about our proposals when he knows from his own visit to the association that the policy is extremely popular with all the principals and that his statement — that the colleges would be given back to his friends in Labour councils — was greeted with widespread dismay there . |
| 9 | We 're getting sick of criticism , especially when it comes from our own offices , ’ said a newsroom source . |