Example sentences of "we [verb] from [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clue we recovered from their dead letterbox , however , only served to confuse us further . |
| 2 | Transport was scarce and we had to carry special identity cards when we moved from our own villages . |
| 3 | We just sat and nattered , about various Christmas holidays we recalled from our individual childhoods . |
| 4 | Firstly , it is this part of the brain which absorbs the social and sexual training which we receive from our earliest years and it governs our thoughts and actions accordingly . |
| 5 | We came from our own country in a red room |
| 6 | Before we arrived , we received from her clear instructions how to choose a paper pattern and then to make the required long lengths of knitting , thus making the fabric for the chosen pattern . |
| 7 | As per our telephone conversations of last Friday and today , I am returning herewith the faulty copy of Xtree Gold which we received from you last week . |
| 8 | In the afternoon we retreated from our glacial amphitheatre and two days later successfully negotiated the ice flutings on the west side of the Mingbo La , the crux of our expedition , to leave behind the magnificent mountain wilderness of the Hongu Valley . |
| 9 | These are only slightly smaller than the values we obtained from our own data . |
| 10 | These days more and more of us are going for names we can trust — household names like Matchbox for instance which we remember from our own childhood . |
| 11 | As we heard from my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary , the maximum penalty for someone aged 16 or 17 is subject to a ceiling of one year . |
| 12 | Creatures that have neither clocks nor books are alive to all manner of knowledge about time and the weather ; and about direction too , as we know from their extraordinary migratory and homing journeys . |
| 13 | We know from his other writings that he defended the use of images in understanding the faith . |
| 14 | we know from your previous history , that this |
| 15 | We know from our weekly surgeries the amount of work that immigration problems generate . |
| 16 | Sleep is not a single process , as we know from our own experiences . |
| 17 | Notionally , each of the bureau should be able to provide an identical service but , as we know from our own experiences and those of our clients , this turns out not to be the case . |
| 18 | Well er if you looked at the I 'll give you one or two averages and and I have to say that these are figures that are a mixture of what we know from the industry and what we what we know from our own company . |
| 19 | We know from our informal discussions with politicians of all shades of opinion that we have a long way to go , but many have been sympathetic to our aims . |
| 20 | ‘ We know from our playing experience what can be achieved and how a successful club is run on and off the field , ’ he says . |
| 21 | Our hidden self may be purposely concealed from the outside world , or something we keep from our own waking mind as too unsettling for conscious thought . |
| 22 | All we took from our own home was a dressing table and a small chest of drawers . |
| 23 | It was not therefore surprising if , on our last day of excavation , we saw from our elevated position men on horse and foot making their way towards us from all points of the compass , and we were told after our departure the top of the hill was crowded with visitors . " |
| 24 | It does this because it shows how if we start from our own case alone , and concentrate entirely upon a conception of mental states which is independent of behaviour , we can not move from our conception of ourselves as subjects of experience to a conception of other subjects . |
| 25 | It is one of the several subcultures we learned from our colonial teachers . |
| 26 | What comfort can we get from our own happiness if we can not feel for those who are condemned to live in misery ? |
| 27 | The person whom we regard from our earliest years as wielding such power , the first person we realise as affecting our lives from outside us is the parent . |
| 28 | As such he is a natural verse-speaker , as we see from his first appearance ( I.ii.321ff. ) and from the soliloquy cursing Prospero during the storm ( II.ii.1–17 ) . |
| 29 | You and the Corporation have been telling us to purchase from our new subsidiaries in Taiwan , Korea , Singapore and even from Japan , for God 's sake . |
| 30 | When we entered the local office to add yet more to my daughter 's investments , the helpful cashier advised us to switch from her existing account , requiring 90 days ’ notice of withdrawals to an instant access ‘ Prime Gold ’ account which had been available for some time , and in fact paid higher interest . |