Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] from the [noun] " 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 | Jane Austen may seem in Sense and Sensibility to join with Edward in preferring cottages in good repair , even at the cost of the picturesque ; but on another occasion , in Northanger Abbey , she appears to side with Catherine , who is so delighted by the view of ‘ a sweet little cottage ’ among apple trees which she sees from the windows of the parsonage at Woodston that her enthusiasm even saves it from demolition . |
| 8 | 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 . ) |
| 9 | The Profitboss identifies Marilyn McGregor as the top-ranking customer service engineer , highlighting the stream of compliments she gets from the field . |
| 10 | She draws from the cigarette , but says nothing . |
| 11 | The group , which she directs from the harpsichord , specialise in 18th Century music which they play on period instruments . |
| 12 | She reads from the letter which says : have you finished the building work at home yet ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It 's like Miss , when she walks from the staff office to here , she could have four conversations and when she gets here she thinks what was the first conversation about again ? |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | Further , she argues from the fact that one wills alienation to be overcome , that indeed it is overcome . |
| 17 | After a reeve has mated she departs from the lek to lay her eggs and rears her young by herself . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She returns from the bidet and dresses quickly . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ She comes from the farm at the top of the valley , ’ she explained . |
| 24 | She comes from the future , and she says … |
| 25 | Referring to them as she detracts from the clarity of my work , since the reader is brought up short by the unfamiliar , inappropriate form . |
| 26 | When groundwater flows naturally or is pumped from an unconfined aquifer , it drains from the pores . |
| 27 | Where it differs from the Mirza Nama is in the richness of the fawning which curdles every sentence : reading Inayat Khan 's chronicle you experience a sensation like drowning under a sea of the sweetest , stickiest honey . |
| 28 | The labour input can be defined as consisting of all the human attributes which are used in producing goods and services and , as such , it differs from the inputs of the other factors of production in one major respect . |
| 29 | It differs from the rest of Newham in that it is less typically an inner-city area and rather more middle class with few tower blocks and a higher proportion of owner-occupied housing . |
| 30 | In addition to these requirements a responsible person may be required to keep the supervisor informed of his address if it differs from the child 's ( para 3(3) ) . |