Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [indef pn] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh just a boring errand , to pick up something from a friend of my aunt 's . ’ |
| 2 | He wanted to pick up something from the breakfast table and throw it on to the floor , the plate from which Mr Blakey had eaten his fry , the apricot jam , the tea-pot , the bundle of knives and forks that Kate had collected and put on top of the pile of green cereal bowls . |
| 3 | It is perhaps less easy to see how someone from a privileged background can be led to seek emptiness as a physical state , when it is obviously such an unpleasant , even painful , one . |
| 4 | Elisabeth never craved to remove items ; to take away anything from The Tamarisks would be , she felt , to disfigure a perfectly beautiful body . |
| 5 | - You start getting this strange maternal urge to bring in everything from the garden overnight . |