Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [verb] [vb pp] from [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blood gushes forth like nothing I have seen from my own body . |
| 2 | Erm I mean I I 've got from I think I 've certainly got Roger 's and and Norman 's erm stuff for |
| 3 | When I first heard about it , someone said to me , within the next ten years , one of ten of us will know of someone who 's died from it . |
| 4 | Which I 've hidden from him , of course . |
| 5 | The grim knowledge that she was on the verge of suffocation appalled me and when she stumbled and almost fell the hand in my pocket gripped more tightly on the scalpel which I had taken from my car along with the adrenalin . |
| 6 | He realised with a sense of desperation that he would have to be twice as cunning as his wife if he was to recover that which she had taken from him . |
| 7 | By her bed was a chest of drawers which contained her underwear — several pairs of cheap directoire knickers , vests , petticoats , and corsets , plus black stockings of wool , cotton , and one precious silk pair which she had brought from her old life . |
| 8 | Florrie was affectionately known as ‘ Hairpin' Axford through her use of a large hairpin which she had removed from her hair on more than one occasion to ‘ make a point ’ , as she herself described it . |
| 9 | When we had an exchange visit from ICI operators at Billingham , they were surprised to learn that their safety suits contained materials which we 'd made from their phenol , ’ said Bob Hodson . |
| 10 | This in no way is meant to lessen the significance and importance of help which we have received from our other supporters which is very much appreciated . |
| 11 | So the one issue remaining on Woolwich 's writ of summons came to be whether or not Woolwich had grounds for claiming interest on the three payments which they had made from their respective dates up to 31 July 1987 . |
| 12 | All her life she had been taught that Philip and his kind were aliens in possession of land which they had stolen from its rightful owners . |
| 13 | Accordingly an injunction against the defendant fulfilling any contract with any person named on a card index which he had obtained from his former employer was discharged , the court saying it was bound to limit the period to one year at the longest . |
| 14 | From it , Kirov drew out a slim sheaf of black and white photographs of the young pilot , and a single sheet of personal notes which he had compiled from their conversations . |
| 15 | In 1691 Martin sold a house in La Couture , which he had inherited from his father in ] 689 , to his brother-in-law Louis Hotteterre , ‘ player of hautboys and other instruments living in the said city of Paris at the end of the Pont Marie Therese ’ ( document 4 ) . |
| 16 | Wunis , a young oil company official , was to some extent moved by indignation about the deceitfulness of the government ; he was also perhaps self-consciously applying those notions of good efficient management which he had gained from his oil company training : decisions about expenditure have to be made in a context of opportunity costs , of an overview of expenditure as a whole . |
| 17 | We inspected everything , from the plumbing arrangements to the cornices and architraves , entirely ‘ new ’ ideas which he had gleaned from his trips to Europe . |
| 18 | If he could have talked to her in Italian it would have been different , but his correct English , which he had learned from his mother who had had an English governess , and which he only ever spoke with her friends or on a case that required it , was of no use to him now . |
| 19 | He firmly rejected the charge of conservatism , which he said derived from his " uncompromising stand on genuine socialism " . |
| 20 | I call you friends , says the Lord , because I have made known to you everything I have learnt from my Father . |
| 21 | Something I 've noticed from your soloing is that you 're not afraid to stay on one note . |
| 22 | Calder-Marshall pointed out something I had omitted from my ( very brief ) Mass Observation review , then said he still did n't understand why I wanted to do the book and I needed to write and explain this to him . |
| 23 | It had come from Eire , but was so like the one I had received from my folk in Somerset , we could hardly believe a Catholic and a Non-Conformist Junior Church magazine could look so much alike . |
| 24 | I have probably saved you from years of frustration , waiting and hoping for someone good enough to come along and kill the one I have taken from you . ’ |
| 25 | But Winnie has a secret , too , one she has kept from her daughter for all these years . |
| 26 | Such are the complexities of the three-year allocation of points in the Sony world rankings that Faldo lost everything he had gained from his Masters victory of 1989 and has consequently dropped to fourth . |
| 27 | However , wrote Goldberg , turning the page and tearing it slightly in his eagerness to go on , my son is rather short-sighted , something he has inherited from his mother , and recently , during a school trip to Dieppe , he dropped his glasses and cracked one of the lenses . |
| 28 | For God 's sake , what is it I have got from him , that it sets me so high ? |
| 29 | The plan which Henry still had in mind was for his eldest son to take all of those lands which he himself had inherited from his father and mother , i.e. Anjou , Maine , Normandy and England , while Richard should have the land which he had acquired by virtue of his marriage to Eleanor . |
| 30 | ‘ Perhaps you 're not trying for the prize of a wedding-ring ; if so , I apologise , though nothing can bring back what I 've taken from you . ’ |