Example sentences of "could from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A row of limp , blank faced figures sat in front of the windows , begging what they could from the steady stream of shoppers . |
| 2 | He had learnt as much as he could from the silly young woman teacher . |
| 3 | When she came with the tray he would slip downstairs and steal what he could from the open shelves in the pantry . |
| 4 | Eliot was well aware it was all a business of transmission and reinterpretation of past interpretations as he shows in writing that ‘ Shakespeare acquired more essential history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British Museum . ’ |
| 5 | But just as Eliot remarked that Shakespeare acquired from Plutarch more essential knowledge than most men could from the whole British Museum , so he himself seemed to have acquired from books like F. S. Oliver 's Endless Adventure an extraordinary grasp of historical movements and tendencies , for example the seventeenth century ‘ disassociation of sensibility ’ was a piece of historical perception which no pure historian would have been able to originate . |