Example sentences of "[pers pn] gets from " in BNC.
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| 1 | She talks incessantly and seems over-enthusiastic about nearly every aspect of life — prattling on without caring much about the kind of responses she gets from other human beings around . |
| 2 | Only one woman out of the forty actually claimed unequivocally to like ironing , and she said she knew she was unusual , particularly in the satisfaction she gets from ironing shirts , an activity which many of the other housewives said was the most intolerable of all . |
| 3 | The Profitboss identifies Marilyn McGregor as the top-ranking customer service engineer , highlighting the stream of compliments she gets from the field . |
| 4 | ‘ And that she gets from your dear self . |
| 5 | ‘ I pity the lady if that 's all the sympathy she gets from you ! ’ she snapped . |
| 6 | She allows herself to have no possessions , only two sets of clothing and anything else she gets from charities goes straight into making homes and clinics which provide free health care to poor mothers for their children . |
| 7 | The Club is almost entirely financed by the proceeds it gets from turning a large part of the Club into a giant car park throughout The Championships . |
| 8 | The heart needs a constant good supply of oxygen which it gets from the bloodstream . |
| 9 | A small child develops ‘ self-esteem ’ via the esteem it gets from its parents or parent substitutes . |
| 10 | Luz is green less from the rain — it is actually one of the drier valleys in the High Pyrenees — than from the water it gets from the mountains all around , from the lakes , the glaciers and the seasonal ‘ melt ’ . |
| 11 | One reason is the ninety two percent approval rating it gets from victims of crime , according to a local police survey . |
| 12 | Does he realise that what the country now needs from him is hope , but all that it gets is complacency ; that what the country needs from him is leadership , but all that it gets from him is excuses ; that what the country now needs is a Government who will act , but what it has is a Government paralysed by the election who dodge the issues , duck the realities and do nothing ? |
| 13 | This is his favourite event , together with the Open — an event where he is as surprised as he is flattered by the support he gets from the British public . |
| 14 | You do n't see him move , but he gets from A to B. And he leaves no slime . ’ |
| 15 | And what playing he gets from the Philadelphia Orchestra . |
| 16 | The police interrogator tends to approach his suspect , and sometimes even witnesses , with definite expectations which could inadvertently affect the information he gets from them . |
| 17 | Ben concedes that he owes a great deal of his success to the help he gets from his Mum and Dad . |
| 18 | He rates the rush he gets from Ecstasy very highly : ‘ It 's like you 've just scored a goal in a football match for three hours . ’ |
| 19 | At the other end of the weights here , he can make the most of the weight and fitness concession he gets from Keep Talking . |
| 20 | And er I lost touch with her after that but Joyce was very nice , very , very a down to earth cockney girl from Hockston and she said er she 'd tell her sister she said I do admire my sister she said they 'll never have anything other than a council house , I do n't suppose but she said my brother-in-law mends people 's motorcycles as a side line and the money that he gets from that he gives her most of it and she buys things on hire purchase , this was the days when hire purchase was n't fearsomely expensive |