Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [noun sg] from " in BNC.

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1 In a similar position would be a street trader , who regularly deals with a certain wholesaler and who could only gain credit from him by guaranteeing to purchase his goods .
2 When I tried embroidery I was ashamed that I could only produce ugliness from the beautiful silks .
3 Although I dreamed and could thus distinguish sleep from death , although I woke up again each morning , the fear remained , and my sister 's death only served to strengthen it .
4 And in 1836 a deputation of Birmingham reformers saw O'Connell on apprenticeship ; they could already assume help from Birmingham and Black Country MPs .
5 He was troubled , I could see , because , being unable to share these memories , he could not disentangle truth from fiction or creative embellishment from accurate detail .
6 It was clear to me that we dared not and could not use money from the Department .
7 She was smiling , and Paul suddenly realised that he could not take money from her .
8 He could not obtain compensation from the person who had caused the accident and sued his employer for failing to provide insurance or advising him of the need to take out insurance .
9 When they could not get money from the machine they beat her with sticks .
10 Moreover , since venereal disease was contracted by a man at his own risk he could not claim protection from the medical arm of the state .
11 This came both from abroad and from borrowers at home , who could easily obtain credit from the banking system which was flooded with foreign cash .
12 At that point we could still take water from the aquifer , but we would have to pump it out in the same way as we would from an unconfined aquifer .
13 In polluted regions of the Northern Hemisphere , seasonal increases in ozone concentration have been observed ; such changes could arise from photochemical reactions , but they could also involve transport from the ozone-rich stratosphere .
14 But it is also beginning to realise that , unless it is careful , it could also face opposition from more unexpected quarters .
15 Roger From the Practice could n't tell emphysema from the common cold .
16 You could n't distinguish German from ice .
17 She could n't accept help from him .
18 She could n't see Miguelito from here , but she had seen enough .
19 Once more , the poorest districts could least afford provision from their own funds .
20 We could sell his story but we could never make money from other people 's suffering … ’
21 We 've tried to frame our motion as carefully as we could t so we could actually get support from everybody .
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