Example sentences of "take from [pers pn] [prep] " 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 | He took from her in silence the passport , the international driver 's licence and Mrs Fanshawe 's letter . |
| 3 | REGARDING your baby-swop story , how could a mother identify as her own a baby taken from her at birth and not returned until later ? |
| 4 | According to the author of the Annals of Xanten ( he had been Louis the Pious 's court librarian and perhaps a protégé of the emperor 's wife in the 830s ) , " The Empress Judith , Charles 's mother , died at Tours , having had all her wealth taken from her by her son " . |
| 5 | ‘ Two reasons : first , because they moved here , the Sardinians , to find pasture when the land they had grazed for centuries was taken from them for development — the Costa Smeralda , etcetera . |
| 6 | The ball their bowlers used in the morning session was sensationally taken from them at lunch by match referee Deryck Murray . |
| 7 | Will any of their existing rights be taken from them under the new arrangements ? |
| 8 | It has been brought to my attention that that money , which patients regard as pocket money , is sometimes taken from them by private residential homes to be used as payment . |
| 9 | They would be very unhappy if that time was taken from them by points of order of this kind . |
| 10 | Bruce , bitter at the crown being taken from him in 1238 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Again , on the face of the statute , I can not see any reason why in this case the constable should do more than tell the driver the reason under section 7(3) why breath specimens can not be taken or used ; tell him that in these circumstances he is required to give a specimen of blood or urine but that it is for the constable to decide which ; warn him that a failure to provide the specimen required may render him liable to prosecution ; and then , if the constable decides to require blood , ask the driver if there are any reasons why a specimen can not or should not be taken from him by a doctor . |
| 13 | His goodwill with those customers belonged to him and can not reasonably be taken from him by a covenant of this kind . |
| 14 | A person in possession of a moveable chattel ( e.g. a painting ) who loses it , or has it stolen from him or otherwise taken from him against his will can demand it back within five years from any person who then has possession of it [ Art . |
| 15 | ‘ This object was taken from you by my servants . |
| 16 | Yes , Chairman , can I say that erm , when the b the budget 's in the process of formulation and we 're discussing the question of balances and reserves and how they should be marked for the immediate future , particularly in regard to the way that er , reorganization may take place at police authorities in the very near future , and also those of us who are on this , on , on other committees who 've had experience in , and the same sort of thing happening in further education for instance , where immediately the assets , before even the regulations were put on the table , the assets of all these things were , all these er , erm , coll the further education colleges were frozen so we could n't do anything with them at all as an Authority , and er , actually many of them were taken from us without er , without any question at all . |
| 17 | Mike Twite was one of eleven souls taken from us in the Varsity disaster of August 1984 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If they used the money that they take from us for the maintenance of the camp we would live like kings . |
| 20 | Holyfield , in fact , left heavyweight boxing with far more than the sport 's historians will allow him to take from it following Friday night 's stunning defeat by Riddick Bowe . |