Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You gave me orders from the poop deck . |
| 2 | His presence gives Joan some respite and complements the assistance she receives from the doctor who visits once a week and a nurse who comes in the morning and at night to put James to bed . |
| 3 | Protecting the environment means different things to different people , but in most cases it is the individual 's own perception of what he or she wants from the environment . |
| 4 | Somehow she has to try to extract the information she wants from the information she gets . |
| 5 | In the latter he or she develops from the moment of birth . |
| 6 | If you removed all the he saids and she saids from the writing above you would still know who was saying what because Nicolas and Bridget are doing different things . |
| 7 | She takes from the bottom of her wardrobe a pair of calf-length fashion boots in dark brown leather and sits on the edge of the bed to pull them on . ) |
| 8 | The Profitboss identifies Marilyn McGregor as the top-ranking customer service engineer , highlighting the stream of compliments she gets from the field . |
| 9 | She draws from the cigarette , but says nothing . |
| 10 | The group , which she directs from the harpsichord , specialise in 18th Century music which they play on period instruments . |
| 11 | She reads from the letter which says : have you finished the building work at home yet ? |
| 12 | She steps from the bath , stretching for a towel in one of those ungainly , intimate postures so beloved of Impressionist painters and deplored by the feminist art historians Robyn admires . |
| 13 | She is both the voice of cartoon character Holli Would ( geddit ? ) and her actual incarnation once she springs from the pen of cartoonist Jack Deebs ( Gabriel Byrne ) . |
| 14 | When it disappeared from the catalogue and by chance I was offered a knighthood , I always said that the Queen , coming as she does from an angling family , was compensating me for having had my name taken out of Hardy 's catalogue . |
| 15 | Gee Armytage was yesterday bracing herself for another spell on the sidelines as she recovers from a back injury sustained in the Coral Welsh National . |
| 16 | will be spending the next few months at her home in Italy while she recovers from an attack of shingles . |
| 17 | At this point the marginal pound he or she earns from an hour 's work is just more than equal to the value of that hour in watching TV or pottering in the garden . |
| 18 | Further , she argues from the fact that one wills alienation to be overcome , that indeed it is overcome . |
| 19 | After a reeve has mated she departs from the lek to lay her eggs and rears her young by herself . |
| 20 | She knows from the start she will get the job and participates with passive fascination in the necessary motions ; the selection board chivalrously closes the door on the trap she has set herself . |
| 21 | She returns from the bidet and dresses quickly . |
| 22 | In the imperfect world , where things get misunderstood , a woman has to realise that when she returns from the kitchen with a toasted sandwich and her man barks , ‘ I said cheese and tomato , not just cheese ! ’ he is probably not so much worried about his stomach as about her hearing . |
| 23 | Indeed , if you were to ask each what he or she infers from the term enrichment in this context , the divergence of their thinking may become apparent straight away . |
| 24 | She lifts from the floor a leather Gladstone bag , and begins to load it with the things she will need for the day : well-thumbed , much underlined and annotated copies of Shirley , Mary Barton , North and South , Sybil , Alton Locke , Felix Holt , Hard Times ; her lecture notes — a palimpsest of holograph revisions in different-coloured inks , beneath which the original typescript is scarcely legible ; and a thick sheaf of student essays marked over the Christmas vacation . |
| 25 | If she comes from a family where she felt undermined by her own mother the effect upon her is compounded . |
| 26 | She comes from a farming background , but did secretarial courses to enable her to work in the city . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ She comes from the farm at the top of the valley , ’ she explained . |
| 28 | She comes from the future , and she says … |
| 29 | Referring to them as she detracts from the clarity of my work , since the reader is brought up short by the unfamiliar , inappropriate form . |
| 30 | It differs from a moon-shot only in degree . |