Example sentences of "got from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Komsomols themselves knew they did not understand the instructions they got from the party cell , and said so , but received no advice as a result . |
| 2 | These were the pleasures he got from the beauties of nature , from the music of Wagner , from the watercolours of Beatrix Potter , from the books of William Morris , George MacDonald and Wordsworth . |
| 3 | ‘ The reaction I got from the Twin Cities race was really out of proportion , ’ he says with appropriate modesty . |
| 4 | So far as we can tell , the men-folk ruled in every sphere ; but it may be that the further one got from the world of high feudalism the less of a slave the woman became ; it is certainly true , in a rather different way , that the Norman Conquest brought both a more complete feudalism and a fall in the status of women . |
| 5 | Adam could afford it because of the money he got from the sale of Wyvis Hall and later from the sale of the London house he bought with the money from the sale of Wyvis Hall . |
| 6 | ‘ I have ended up with my children in a Women 's Hostel , still black and blue after the battering I got from the drunken unfaithful bully I was stupid enough to marry . |
| 7 | Sand was a writer with a popular following ; Flaubert , who never grew used to the lashings he got from the critics , struggled to follow her instructions to rise above their hostility . |
| 8 | Well , Maudie 'ands 'im a pile o' leaflets she got from the church an' tells 'im ter 'and 'em out ter the carmen . |
| 9 | Kolchinsky was used to the gentle ribbing he got from the operatives about his cost-cutting exercises but when it came to the crunch he would never put any of their lives at risk for the sake of the budget . |
| 10 | The further they got from the rave the more bodies they had to step over . |
| 11 | But the further they got from the area , the easier it became . |
| 12 | Er we got through it.Erm and when you think there was no money from anywhere but that five shillings a week that we got from the , from the er I think it was called the Board of Guardians , I 'm not sure , and er we survived . |
| 13 | That 's a note he got from the Editor the other day , giving him the sack . ’ |
| 14 | He knows that Grampian regional council is bound by statute to say how much it got from the sale ; it can not simply say that it will not tell anyone . |
| 15 | And then the other one is the one that I got from the library by Luhmann . |
| 16 | " I 'd like you to give me the wedding-dress you got from the children . " |
| 17 | ‘ But all I needed to do was look at the support I got from the club and the fans when we were at the bottom last season . |
| 18 | She was Dr Katharine Ash , twenty-five years old , able to handle the admiration she got from the opposite sex with aplomb , supremely confident of her destiny . |
| 19 | Shop steward 's chairman who was one of a delegation of six who later had a meeting with Minister for Energy Tim Eggar , said : ‘ We were encouraged by the promises of support we got from the MPs and the Minister has said he will look at the pension scheme position . ’ |
| 20 | Could have done without the lip I got from the scouse stallholders though ( sample : ‘ The League Title cost a fortune in them days … ’ ) . |
| 21 | I thought it was interesting as well that the stuff I got from the I and R V with it , was a lot about audio description and the tape and how much it cost and how wonderful this was and it was the first time it had ever been done , but there was nothing , as is always the case , there was nothing actually about what the film was about , it was full of sort of , this is the first time it 's done , but nothing about sort of this is the film about , about this , this is what the story 's about , you know . |
| 22 | but I mean it was so good , because remember the letter we got from the wee boy with the drawing ? |
| 23 | The figures actually which I got from the director yesterday are that the department is counting four hundred and ten vacancies of those four hundred and ten , two hundred and thirty four are out of commission , they 're in homes being refurbished seventy two are in blocked places , that is double rooms being lived in by a widow or widower where er they 'd previously shared it with the spouse or er disability reasons , health reasons , behaviour reasons of a resident er in a previously shared room . |
| 24 | Erm , take some time off to read erm the handbook we got from the housing finance seminar because clearly he does n't understand his contacts . |
| 25 | The man with the sting made his living trawling for prawns , and fishing for mero , which he sold to the holiday village cafés , for a better price than he got from the locals . |
| 26 | All we got from the insurance company was a sum for fixtures and fittings . |
| 27 | So anyway I got to and I was amazed at the opposition I got from the two or three staff shunters at . |
| 28 | That 's what he got from the post , I bet he bought two of them . |
| 29 | you actually exchange , as soon as you 've exchanged contracts we 've got to get insured you see but erm I mean on the letter we got from the solicitor on Saturday it said , it , it looks as though your purchaser 's ready to exchange contracts in the forthcoming week |
| 30 | but I put him on some medicine I got from the chemist and it seems to have calmed it down but his nose is more er hot and cold |