Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [to-vb] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patient may need to eat from a bowl at first , as he gets used to eating one-handed . |
| 2 | To close , I should like to quote from a source that especially some of us find more authoritative than a business man . |
| 3 | In that connection , I should like to quote from a letter that the Secretary of State wrote to the right hon. Member for Selby ( Mr. Alison ) who was concerned — rightly so — about a letter that a tenant in his constituency had received from Grand Metropolitan Estates . |
| 4 | At no time had there been any hint that France should try to benefit from the British embarrassment during this critical period , though the press published sharp attacks on the British policy of reprisals after the Mutiny was over . |
| 5 | The Macleod Report had specifically recommended that the Party should attempt to recruit from a wider class basis . |
| 6 | Some argued that the Party should threaten to withdraw from the coalition unless the Tories accepted demands to extend war controls to the nationalization of major industries . |
| 7 | Mr Baker strongly criticised a call from Mr Ashdown for up to 4.5 million Hong Kong Chinese who might want to flee from a Communist regime after 1997 to be given the right to come to Britain . |
| 8 | This is exactly the kind of picture which we might want to save from a screen paintbrush job ; lovely blends of colour , subtle shades and shapes , and not a straight line anywhere . |
| 9 | It was thought that their former colleagues might like to hear from the University , particularly if some improvement in the alumni services available to those who studied at Stirling years ago could be made both useful and attractive . |
| 10 | ‘ We 'll have to jump from the first floor , ’ said Cardiff . |
| 11 | ‘ Will you be all right ? ’ asked Rachel dubiously , worried that Belinda might try to climb from the horse when the carousel was in motion , or , even worse , that she might slip from its back . |
| 12 | Lorenz 's argument might seem to move from a justified limited conclusion to an unjustified general one . |
| 13 | We may one day achieve a position where a region may elect to disaffiliate from a dominant state , and become a European region without feeling it encumbent upon itself to apply for membership of the United Nations . |
| 14 | There has been some talk of screening the game at Elland Road , but i 'd prefer to recover from the previous nights over indulgence down at the boozer , rather than in the West Stand . |
| 15 | It sounds like you 'd like to escape from the limelight . |
| 16 | There 's a few issues I 'd like to cover from a number of comments , I 'll I 'll |
| 17 | Every able-bodied man in Uig signed a petition asking that the parish should be disjoined from Lewis and added to Harris so that they could continue to benefit from the employment Lord Leverhulme offered . |
| 18 | If so , any school or group of schools in consultation with the College and the leader of the in-service team may decide to depart from a particular syllabus or portions of it and develop in its place new material which after being tried out and improved upon may be passed on to other schools and colleges for use on a wider scale with the approval of the Ministry . |
| 19 | ‘ . If that fails , you may decide to disengage from the conversation . |
| 20 | In your mind you may have to start from the beginning of the paradigm and go down until you arrive at the form you need at the moment . |
| 21 | Secure in your status at work , becoming a parent may cause confusion — a woman may have to adjust from a professional role to a maternal one , where her own needs become relegated ; a father may have to adjust to there being a new small person in the family who makes his role seem less significant . |
| 22 | You should keep a close watch on a new dog in particular in these surroundings , because often they may try to escape from the garden , and go wandering . |
| 23 | First , society may wish to take from the rich in order to give to the poor . |
| 24 | Whatever claims for the English language he may wish to make from a supposedly technical , linguistic perspective , he can not assume that attributing ‘ objectivity ’ to it is unproblematic , or that the meaning attributed to it within that sub-culture can safely be carried over into cross-cultural correlations with the features of certain languages and grammars . |
| 25 | In theory they may stand to benefit from the nationalization of property ; in practice state ownership may provide less liberty and less efficiency than private ownership . |
| 26 | I mean , who in their right mind would want to jump from a great height with elastic tied round their ankles ? |
| 27 | Stuff of nightmares No one expects the life of a Peruvian gold prospector to be easy , but I doubt if many would expect to die from the bite of a rabid vampire bat . |
| 28 | Given a low-cost product which can do so much so quickly it was a inevitable that its use would begin to spread from the professional graphics market — for which it was predominantly designed — to the office market . |
| 29 | Although I do not have a magic wand , I hope to be able to establish some means of providing the physical back-up that you would like to receive from the Society and to start the ball rolling I am compiling a list of all the ways in which you have been supported or would like to have been supported , in the past plus suggestions for the future . |
| 30 | ‘ It is up to the manager to decide how often that is , but I would like to continue from the start in our next match . ’ |