Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun sg] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He further criticised him for using information from a confidential social work report to discredit a witness . |
| 2 | A metal hook at the top end of the handle is used for recovering line from a hole and is also useful for drawing rabbits out of a hole at a distance beyond the length of a man 's arm . |
| 3 | Near Snodland was an Elizabethan house with an old cage wheel , formerly used for drawing water from a well some one hundred and twenty feet deep . |
| 4 | Bob says he thinks Senada was initially wary about accepting hospitality from a single man . |
| 5 | The raider escaped with £760 after demanding cash from a cashier at the National and Provincial in Bondgate at 2.55pm on December 27 . |
| 6 | The students are frightened about seeking help from a stranger . |
| 7 | What studies did contribute to was its amendment , its clarification , its reinterpretation , its revision , its incorporation and almost replacement by other perspectives , in light of accumulating evidence from a wide range of studies . |
| 8 | There seems to be some confusion in the minds of some as to the purpose of seeking consent from a patient ( whether adult or child ) or from someone with authority to give that consent on behalf of the patient . |
| 9 | One may be that children do not have sufficient command of the skills of extracting information from a text . |
| 10 | Using pre-formulated questions as a structure for notes also provides more able children with a useful means of synthesising information from a range of sources . |
| 11 | A man accused of stealing money from a Gulf War charity has had all charges against him dropped . |
| 12 | In the days running up to the match Rough had been cruelly accused of stealing meat from a local supermarket . |
| 13 | The point I am labouring at such length is that there is a large and complicated repertoire of non-verbal behaviour without which it is impossible to communicate meanings through the medium of spoken words and although it is tempting to regard this non-lexical repertoire as something which can be painlessly removed without any significant loss of meaning , the experience of reconstructing talk from a medium in which the representation of this aspect of speech is so poor is a salutary reminder of its importance . |
| 14 | ROBERTSON 'S : James Robertson , a Paisley grocer , hit on the idea of making marmalade from a barrel of bitter oranges he could not sell . |
| 15 | A purpose-built waterfall will obviously have to conform visually to the site and fulfil its function of delivering water from a higher area to a pool below . |
| 16 | I ca n't rebuild without paying through the nose for the privilege , and even if I did build , getting rent is like getting blood from a stone ! ’ |
| 17 | Inexperienced in the ways of the world , the boy is tricked into accepting money from a plausible and ( to Thomas ) impressive midshipman , a year younger than he but already well instructed in ways of avoiding the various laws against press-ganging . |
| 18 | The leftward nodes represent situations in which the reader is required to expend a lot of effort in deriving coherence from a text . |
| 19 | The latter two levels are less obvious examples of isomorphic phenomena , and a model is adapted and developed to explain the pattern-matching involved in resolving meaning from a reading of a text . |
| 20 | It is probably worth taking advice from a specialist competitions house when organising your first big competition . |
| 21 | It is an Accrington brick-built town with few pretensions and it no doubt contributed to saving Gedge from a terminal dose of wetness . |
| 22 | According to Philip Saunders , a director of Guinness Flight Global Asset Management , the funds have uses beyond sheltering money from a tougher tax regime . |
| 23 | If they were to talk all night , they would still be no nearer to viewing life from a similar standpoint . |
| 24 | .. It can hardly be considered that to ask an employee to acquire basic skills as to retrieving information from a computer … is something in the slightest esoteric or even , nowadays , unusual . |
| 25 | There are five of them , a name and address database , a mail merger , an address label printer , one for searching within a database and an automatic report generator — again for obtaining information from a database . |
| 26 | They were asked about playing music from a trailer , about dancing in a circle , about the quarry on their land . |
| 27 | The first involves designing special procedures for eliciting language from a child and the second involves sampling the language produced by the child under ordinary , everyday settings . |
| 28 | This collection had been formed in the second half of the eighteenth century by John Hunter who was largely responsible for raising surgery from a craft to a profession in England , and was the greatest anatomist and physiologist of his day . |
| 29 | A female starts by gathering mud from a patch of wet ground . |
| 30 | On the other hand , accountants can often assist solicitors by gathering information from a target 's premises , and a cross-fertilisation of ideas and experience between the professionals can highlight areas that require specific attention . |