Example sentences of "we [verb] a [noun] from " in BNC.

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1 Apart from the fact that we made a profit from the Gulf war , may I ask the Minister to say what else was achieved by it , with Saddam Hussein still in power and carrying out his evil acts and with the dictatorship still in power in Kuwait ?
2 Now , although the idea that whenever we see that someone is in pain we make an inference from behaviour to feeling is about as mythical as the idea that at some time in the past we made a Social Contract , the ‘ argument from analogy ’ line of reasoning seems much less implausible here than in the ‘ Afternoon on the Sun ’ case .
3 We got a grant from the Foundation for Sport and the Arts , which the government set up last year .
4 We got a call from them recently and , apparently they 've managed to come up with a program that WILL allow for a hundred Lemmings on-screen at once — although they would not be animated to any degree whatsoever .
5 but you know that er our Susan wanted to go down to erm , get her hair done this morning so erm I says to her come up here , we 'll get a taxi from here we 'll go down the hairdressers and shall permission to collect our money , so we got a taxi from here down to erm what they call that street where er that erm oh dear me Street
6 We got a letter from him saying he was due in court for burglary — but he did n't mention anything about elderly women . ’
7 We got a letter from 'im only the ovver day , ’ William replied .
8 We got a letter from the Kent constabulary to say that erm he 'd been let off .
9 Yeah erm wait a minute we got a letter from this morning to say that erm wait a minute , erm they 'd had a communication from Mr
10 usually through the Summer , we got a visit from the Kirkwall City Pipe Band and they marched up and down the village playing , usually followed by a crowd of Bairns .
11 So in the end we got a mortgage from a building society , and my parents gave us the money to do it up .
12 Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke says we can do a Roman banquet so we got a book from the library about what sort of food they ate .
13 We gain a lot from working with the children .
14 To preserve actin filaments ( at the expense of good membrane preservation ) , we used a protocol from K. McDonald : limb buds were fixed in cacodylate-buffered 1% glutaraldehyde , rinsed in buffer , treated with 0.8% K 3 Fe(CN) 6 in buffer for 30min , postfixed with 0.5% osmium tetroxide in buffer for 1min , embedded in Araldite , sectioned and stained with uranyl acetate and lead citrate .
15 We expect a lead from Westminster , not a vacuum left at Christmas or any other time of the year by a bunch of freeloaders .
16 We want a change from the feudal tenure we 've had over the years .
17 We want a whitewash from the last two games . ’
18 He was very supportive and we learnt a lot from each other . ’
19 If we remove an electron from an anti-bonding orbital , the ion will be more tightly bound than the molecule was .
20 If we remove an electron from a bonding orbital , the bond in the ion is weaker than that in the molecule .
21 If we remove an electron from a non-bonding level , the potential functions of ion and molecule should have minima at very similar internuclear distances .
22 We understand that the UKCC is anxious to achieve that , but we seek an assurance from the Minister that that will happen .
23 Which reminded me : the night before leaving we received a call from Dave .
24 We received a call from the hospital , which had by this time received the results of the X-rays .
25 Days later , we were only a few bio-hours from the Vadinamian system when we received a call from Mala 's pet FedPol , Chertro .
26 I 've also instructed the secretary of Great Grimsby C L P to write to the Education Authority , to get us into schools and colleges and when we received a reply from the Education Authority , to my dismay , they did n't know anything about it .
27 At that time , we , we received a petition from the tenants erm very much along the lines of the one that erm erm , er Mr has read out , at that time there was a petition from a hundred and eight county council tenants and one hundred and five of them in fact signed it and they , they asked for it to be allowed to keep the erm to have the freedom to decide whether or not hunting takes place .
28 Shortly after the publication of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail , however , we received a letter from Dr Hugh Schonfield , author of The Passover Plot and a number of other important works on the origins of Christianity .
29 We should add that after the hearing was completed we received a letter from Mr. Persaud inviting us to reopen the hearing to allow him to address additional points to us which he had not mentioned at all in his opening submissions to us or in his reply .
30 Nukri Kakilashvili , a member of the Georgian soccer federation , said on national television : ‘ We received a letter from UEFA instructing us to cover expenses for referees , so on the eve of the match a number of officials presented four envelopes to the referee and linesmen .
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