Example sentences of "[to-vb] from [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Nor , to judge from their efforts , do I see that I have much more to expect from my own people . |
| 13 | ‘ Why should Craig want to steal from his own company and what 's more share the proceeds with an accountant ? ’ |
| 14 | Ms Harman urged the electorate to draw from their own experiences when they vote . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The learned judge held not , for the reason that no one is entitled to profit from his own wrong . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Some of them may be able to start up new interests , but it 's usually best to start from their own experiences in life . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There will be lectures and seminars , to which teachers will be expected to contribute from their own experience , and in which taped and transcribed texts from their classrooms , and written work produced by their pupils will be discussed and analysed . |
| 22 | This sense of a future and a past for homosexuality contrasts unfavourably with the British sense of history — it would be unfortunate if the only way for a society to learn from its own history was for it to be occupied by fascists ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He claims to learn from his own case what , for example , pain is . |
| 25 | Those working at the sharp end will be able to add from their own experience . |
| 26 | This group is in many ways similar to the elderly , except that they are less likely to be able to contribute to care from their own resources and are therefore more likely to receive a free service wherever they are placed . |
| 27 | The plaintiffs … relied on the maxim that no one can be allowed to derogate from his own grant . |
| 28 | Was it possible that Short was part of the conspiracy , that he stood to gain from his own horse being beaten ? |