Example sentences of "which [pers pn] [verb] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I ate that day was a piece of bread , which I begged from a farmer eating his supper . |
| 2 | We had one called Stumpy , a Dales short horn , light roan in colour , which we reared from a calf . |
| 3 | The next definition , which we formulate from a desire to get at the fundamental building blocks as far as multiplication in Z is concerned , is intentionally unconventional , introducing , as it does , a familiar concept in an unfamiliar way . |
| 4 | Before moving to Cleveland , Mr and Mrs Chance ran a 14-bedroomed hotel in Northumberland which they developed from a pub . |
| 5 | It follows that a firm will need to ensure that any guarantees which they require from a client or other person in respect of the performance of their obligations towards the firm do indeed contain appropriate provisions to displace the statutory rule , and bankers to a firm seeking security for its overdraft will invariably attach similar conditions to the liability of any person put forward by the firm as guarantor . |
| 6 | Charles and Arthur Wilson were made full partners in 1867 and were by this time effectively running the company , which they transformed from a major European enterprise into an international one with routes to North America and India . |
| 7 | Poecillopsis gracilis — The Porthole Livebearer which is common at this location was Pat and Derek 's first wild livebearer species which they bought from a local aquarium shop about 20 years ago . |
| 8 | Mr Martin comes to Edinburgh from Basil Blackwell , which he developed from a small family business with sales of under £1 million into a major international publishing group with a turnover of more than £14 million . |
| 9 | These can be thought of in terms of seven organizational imperatives , which he derives from a larger set constructed by Jacques ( 1989 ) . |
| 10 | Bicker doctored the hurts of the horses with some strong-smelling salve which he gouged from a small wooden box and smeared on their wounds . |
| 11 | In alluding to Ronald Duncan and The Criterion , he was referring to a proposal by Duncan — with whom I had been in correspondence , though I did not meet him until after the war — that I should write for The Townsman ( a magazine which he edited from an ancient mill situated in a valley on the Devon/Cornish border , where I was later to live and write about ) , an article analysing the reasons why The Criterion , after flourishing for seventeen years , had so suddenly come to an end . |
| 12 | The RL board of directors accepted Steadman 's explanation but said he was ‘ irresponsible ’ in not checking the contents of the medicine which he bought from a chemist 's shop . |
| 13 | This object may be something which he sees from a distance and so gives the rider due warning that he will probably shy . |
| 14 | The rufous humming-bird , like the golden-winged sunbird , feeds on nectar , which it takes from a territory of about 60–4000 flowers . |
| 15 | The company markets washing machines and dryers which it imports from a medium-sized Italian manufacturer . |