Example sentences of "take from [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I cry , the Monster cries — more piteously , longer , louder — not because it is sad , of course not , never out of sorrow or pity , no , merely because Jimbo has cried and thereby been noticed , for his self These scraps of attention the Monster would take from me to the last smile , the last nod , the last little pat on the head . |
| 2 | Will any of their existing rights be taken from them under the new arrangements ? |
| 3 | His little-boy mask had slipped by a fraction , a sure sign of the energies that had been taken from him in the past hour , and someone else was looking out — someone much harder , more calculating . |
| 4 | Mike Twite was one of eleven souls taken from us in the Varsity disaster of August 1984 . |
| 5 | As is well known , Tolkien 's grand design , or desire , was to give back to his own country the legends that had been taken from it in the Dark Ages after the Conquest , when elves and woodwoses and sigelhearwan too had all been forced into oblivion . |
| 6 | If they used the money that they take from us for the maintenance of the camp we would live like kings . |