Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The F-A will now decide whether it should take action against the men which may include banning them from football for life . |
| 2 | It is right that in the negotiations , which must remain confidential , they should seek to prevent us from going too far too soon . |
| 3 | Iran on April 6 denounced , in a letter to the Security Council , Iraq 's toleration of the operation of " terrorist mercenaries " , and demanded that Iraq should stop supporting them from inside Iraqi territory . |
| 4 | We must try to prevent him from erring in the first place ; easier said than done ! |
| 5 | ‘ There are failsafes which should have stopped it from doing this ! ’ |
| 6 | Even though the plight of those two climbers should have released me from my fear of calling for help on behalf of others , I 'm still wary unless I come across someone whose legs are a few hundred yards from their body . |
| 7 | Strictly speaking I should have taken it from here to where to get rid of the turps ? |
| 8 | They must have contracted them from bacteria transported from the teeming insanitary slums on the other side of town . |
| 9 | He tells us — largely as he must have heard it from the horse 's mouth — the history of programmed machines , the development of McCarthy 's own interest in combining human common sense with the brute number-crunching force of early computers , and how this led to his own contributions , perhaps the best-known of which is the invention of LISP , now the standard programming language of artificial intelligence . |
| 10 | My friend must have heard it from him , and after you left remembered and telephoned me . |
| 11 | You must have moved them from up there . |
| 12 | And we must have caught it from there . |
| 13 | I was surprised he knew those words ; he must have acquired them from his wife . |
| 14 | Then suddenly she heard the sound of someone coming , and she put aside her sadness of heart , to realise that Lubor , perhaps on the lookout for her , must have spotted her from a window somewhere . |
| 15 | He must have rescued me from the canal , because my clothes were wet through , so were his … ’ |
| 16 | When people asked Mrs Maugham where her daughter got her brains from , she would sniff and shrug her shoulders and say , as though disclaiming a vice or a disease , " Well , she certainly did n't get them from me , she must have got them from him , I suppose " — a remark which Clara took years to place , in all its ambiguity , for the truth was that Mrs Maugham had done well at school , she had shone and prospered , and the evidence of her distant triumphs still lay around the house in the form of inscribed Sunday school prizes . |
| 17 | Adam must have got it from him , Lewis sometimes thought , or perhaps ( he much later and very bitterly thought ) a similar pedantry in Adam was among the things Hilbert liked about him . |
| 18 | He must have got it from another sick dog . " |
| 19 | She must have got it from the room where I keep my guns . |
| 20 | He must have got it from someone . |
| 21 | Comforts and consolations may appear to wean us from the gifts to the Giver . |
| 22 | I ca n't wait for you any longer , especially when I consider how long it might take to extricate you from another relationship if I give you time and you use it to involve yourself with Jones or whoever else you might have in mind … |
| 23 | I 'm afraid sex ratio theory is complicated , but you 'll have to take it from me that Fisher solved the problem by showing that it would never be an individual self-interest . |
| 24 | ‘ You 'll have to direct me from here . ’ |
| 25 | yes , alright , I , you 'll have to ban me from cutting your loaf , you 'll have to do it , you will . |
| 26 | Girls from orthodox Muslim and Sikh families feel this most strongly ; they also fear that through some misunderstanding their parents might try to withdraw them from school altogether , cutting off their lifeline to the outside world . |
| 27 | With a shoe clutched in each hand he was unable to make a grab for the rougher stones that might have saved him from disaster . |
| 28 | He might have saved her from Jem , but did that give him the right to such a ruthless inquisition ? |
| 29 | His voice was a mere whisper , but such was the effect of his words on the woman that he might have shouted them from the rooftops . |
| 30 | People might come to hear you from all over the world . |