Example sentences of "[to-vb] from [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There is nothing discreditable in a bailiff appropriating to his lord 's use his own products , e.g. to brew from his own barley , to make cloth and linen from his own wool and flax , feed his horses from his own produce . |
| 2 | The best way , however , is to benefit from your own experience . |
| 3 | Moreover , where a woman dares not register her non-consent because of a man 's violent or frightening behaviour , the law is permitting him to benefit from his own wrong if it grants him a defence on the basis of an honest but unreasonable belief in consent . |
| 4 | Delegates agreed to open Eureka 's project database to east European companies and research institutes , although funding would , as in other countries , have to come from their own resources or from the governments ( which had so far provided less than 30 per cent of funding ) . |
| 5 | So , I mean these are the supporters that they , they 've got to sort of focus on erm even i he does say that some of the erm er leaders of the associations are n't actually up to scratch but he says eighty five percent of them are and it would be wrong to attack or to arrest , you know , the other fifteen percent and it 's got to come from their own discipline of the association , you let the movement grow together , do n't try and er become er , you know , resisting forces because er these are the people who we 've got to erm s stay with and to look after , to harness erm to work for and er so that 's basically , is his conclusion . |
| 6 | Newspaper correspondents and representatives of the Ministry of Information were frequent visitors to Burma , and we did our best to give them what news we had , to tell them about government hopes and plans , and to extract from them any news and wisdom they had to give us . |
| 7 | When bidding farewell to Porua , I tried to extract from him some word of praise for my activities on behalf of his paper . |
| 8 | Isis persisted in her demand to know his true name and such was Re 's pain that he allowed the terrible name to pass from his own body into that of Isis . |
| 9 | In order for an apparent consent or refusal of consent to be less than a true consent or refusal , there must be such a degree of external influence as to persuade the patient to depart from her own wishes , to an extent that the law regards it as undue . |
| 10 | What he wanted in its place was put more colourfully , but very succinctly , when he said , also in 1965 , ‘ However , big the glass which is proffered from outside , we prefer to drink from our own glass ; while at the same time clinking glasses with those around us ’ . |
| 11 | You have in your hands a book which starts clearly enough with a character trying to escape from his author and which has now reached the opposite pole with the real author ( myself trying to escape from his own character . |
| 12 | Having got the address from the school records , Miss Honey set out to walk from her own home to the Wormwood 's house shortly after nine . |
| 13 | They are able to identify from their own records those types who are the loyal customers — where average order value is highest , where bad debt is lowest , and where responsiveness to mailshots is highest . |
| 14 | so I hope to hear from her this week . |
| 15 | ‘ It appears that the Barnes lawyers and , by inference , the National Gallery of Art did not want to hear from me any comments questioning the indecent and dangerous haste in the timetable for the exhibition ’ , Stolow wrote in a 29 March letter to a member of Congress . |
| 16 | On the hour the news and weather and we 'd like to hear from you this afternoon . |
| 17 | On the hour the news and weather and we 'd like to hear from you this afternoon . |
| 18 | On the hour the news and weather and we 'd like to hear from you this afternoon Nottingham three four three four three four the number to ring if you 'd like to have a chat on the air . |
| 19 | On the hour the news and weather , and we 'd like to hear from you this afternoon cos we have a phone-in and you can take part and have a chat on the air . |
| 20 | Nor , to judge from their efforts , do I see that I have much more to expect from my own people . |
| 21 | ‘ Why should Craig want to steal from his own company and what 's more share the proceeds with an accountant ? ’ |
| 22 | It is now necessary to draw some of these strands together and reach some general conclusions about the merit of the Essex project , and to derive from them some prescriptions for action for anyone seeking to enhance library provision in similar ways . |
| 23 | Ms Harman urged the electorate to draw from their own experiences when they vote . |
| 24 | Michelangelo 's works have a strong , peculiar and marked character : they seem to proceed from his own mind entirely , and that mind so rich and abundant , that he never needed , or seems to disdain , to look abroad for foreign help . |
| 25 | The team played better but failed to profit from their many spells of domination . |
| 26 | The team played better but failed to profit from their many spells of domination . |
| 27 | It is difficult to reject the view that he was genuinely anxious , first not to appear to profit from his own actions in bringing about the downfall of the Coalition , and second to strengthen the new Government , which he thought , probably mistakenly , that Mckenna would do . |
| 28 | The learned judge held not , for the reason that no one is entitled to profit from his own wrong . |
| 29 | Then there are those we can all remember from our own schooldays who just ca n't teach at all , though we are unable to recall from our own experience any example of the stratagem reported by one of our informants . |
| 30 | That was why her mother had this outlandish name of which she was so proud and which Alexandra had tried to keep from her few childhood friends . |