Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] from [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The team played better but failed to profit from their many spells of domination . |
| 2 | The team played better but failed to profit from their many spells of domination . |
| 3 | ‘ I assume you made it worth her while in other ways , but obviously I failed to discover from her own fair lips how much you thought she was worth , and I 'm damned sure you wo n't admit how much you 've paid over the odds for her favours . ’ |
| 4 | When bidding farewell to Porua , I tried to extract from him some word of praise for my activities on behalf of his paper . |
| 5 | Hyacinth felt excluded from it all , and rather wished she had waited for Carole Swan , or for Angela Cartwright , the delegation 's leader . |
| 6 | I 'm bound to say that they failed to learn from their own history after nineteen-eighteen , so that they did in effect repeat erm their history a second time with disastrous consequences for everybody . |
| 7 | That there was sufficient evidence to establish the guilt of the first appellant on the basis of his own actings was from his first ground of appeal where it was stated : ‘ The evidence of what he himself did comes from his own statements corroborated by bloodstains found on his clothing ’ . |
| 8 | Despite her eccentricity and the fact that they could n't help laughing at her , the Girls would readily acknowledge that she gave them as much , if not more , affection than they had received from their own parents . |
| 9 | Martinho said the malais had very quickly stopped shooting at them and that most of the casualties had come from our own fire . |
| 10 | You did n't have to tell Claire , Annabel or me about Nanny 's cold hands ; we had suffered from them most of our lives , but what that had to do with pastry was what Father described as a ‘ female mystery ’ . |
| 11 | Unfortunately the damage was already done by the time Richard was fully recovered , and in spite of his commendable efforts to rescue what was left of the business he had built from his own sweat , it was far too late . |
| 12 | Daisy Yates showed me the postcard she had had from him that morning . |
| 13 | His dark hair , trimmed by Moxie , was curly and glossy , his face with high cheek bones and small nose and small sensuous mouth and dark blue eyes , had resumed its glowing charm ; and when his friends ( Barry Titmus , for instance , Jerry Locke , Sidney Brett , and Ned Oliver who had recovered from his own ailments ) came to see him , roars of laughter could be heard from above . |
| 14 | And she baked some bread with the millet flour that she had brought from her own garden . |
| 15 | He regarded Lexandro musingly as a brother might a sister whose honour he must protect — a sentiment which Lexandro had purged from his own soul , though he recognized the symptoms . |
| 16 | There was Maria Filippa , however , looking at him through her glasses which had misted up in horror and grief at his outburst , gulping the air like a fish ; she was not like his sister Rosa , not one of those girls he had to protect from their own compulsions , but his own beloved and burdened wife , so reserved in bed that he even regretted her modesty himself , and so far from the whore he was about to call her , he shuddered from head to foot . |
| 17 | His mouth tightened but he released her wrist , eyes glittering , and she ran up the stairs , into her bedroom , slammed the door , locked it , then knew with a terrible deep certainty that she had run from her own desire . |
| 18 | Accordingly an injunction against the defendant fulfilling any contract with any person named on a card index which he had obtained from his former employer was discharged , the court saying it was bound to limit the period to one year at the longest . |
| 19 | Nijman Zeetank 's UK director Clive Riggall said the company wanted to move from its former Lincoln base to the North west as one of its major customers was Pilkington Glass , based in St Helens . |
| 20 | Was it possible that Short was part of the conspiracy , that he stood to gain from his own horse being beaten ? |