Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [noun] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eddie Tonks , Chairman of the New Zealand Rugby Football Union said yesterday that he had received the reassurance from South African rugby chief Danie Craven . |
| 2 | As for the 500 million yen in illicit political donations which he acknowledged having received from Watanabe , he claimed not to remember to whom it was distributed , and suggested that his secretary , Masahisa Haibara , who had directly received the money from Watanabe , should be questioned on the matter . |
| 3 | Previously , the emperor had received the sword from God ; now he received it , after it had rested ( like the pallium used for the investiture of archbishops ) on the body of St Peter , from the hands of the pope ( " however unworthy " , as Innocent said ) , not from God but from his vicar . |
| 4 | This case rested , as did the Harms Commission , on the credibility of former police Captain Dirk Coetzee , who claimed to have received the poison from Neethling [ for his allegations , first published in November 1989 , see p. 37033 ] . |
| 5 | The Government and TANU , at the centre , wanted to talk directly to the people and were becoming increasingly aware of the communications gap between the centre ( the capital ) and the periphery or grass roots , given the remoteness from Dar es Salaam of so much of the country . |
| 6 | Both raw materials and finished products were all in bags — we unloaded the raw materials up until midnight then re-loaded the lorries from midnight onwards for the drivers to deliver the next day . |
| 7 | erm on the train coming through that Esso have withdrawn the sponsorship from sports in Scotland |
| 8 | Bush stressed that he would not be making a final decision until he had heard the reports from Cheney and Powell . |
| 9 | You might go hoping for some insight into the goat-hair experiences of Professor Peters or Evans-Pritchard , but , after the initial polite questions , you are asked if you have heard the news from Iran . |
| 10 | She had already heard the answer from Aunt Bertha , but here was the out-of-the-blue opportunity to hear it from Silas . |
| 11 | Brian has joined the faculty from South Devon College of Arts and Technology , where he was senior lecturer for 25 years , teaching BTEC National and HND courses in hotel and catering institutional management , a course now franchised to the University of Plymouth . |
| 12 | Dan Dooley , who has joined the Exiles from Saracens , is at centre and Howard Lamb , recruited from Richmond towards the end of last season , plays at blindside flanker . |
| 13 | The Royal Navy treated the ex-coxswain from Rainham , Essex , to a trip to Caen in HMS Bulldog . |
| 14 | With the heir to the throne in her hands , she wrote to Edward saying that she and her son would not return to England until Edward had dismissed the Despensers from court . |
| 15 | After Y 's cheque to X was dishonoured , X ( with Y 's acquiescence ) repossessed the car from Y 's premises . |
| 16 | I 've checked the aeroplanes from Croydon , I used your telephone , this time I shall fly . |
| 17 | He had let the dealer from Hadleigh come , a man called Evans or Owens , one of those Welsh names , and sold him a brass lantern and two little carved tables and the sherry glasses . |
| 18 | Some of them have blamed the fallout from Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait and the economic downturn in Spain for the demise of the Torras companies . |
| 19 | They say they 've enjoyed the transition from farmer to fashion designer . |
| 20 | He was ‘ effing and blinding ’ because he said that he had caught the infection from Mrs H. again . |
| 21 | Not to want what could n't be had no doubt took the sting from things . |
| 22 | Ernest Hemingway is reputed to have considered the descent from Monte in a toboggan one of the strongest emotions of his life . |
| 23 | I have considered the flight from mind in two major aspects : first in the flight from the generality of form and universality , both in the world and thought ; second , in the flight from consciousness . |
| 24 | But , as yet , few linguists have applied the insights from conversation analysis to functionalist studies of linguistic structure . |
| 25 | The dogs warden who had originally transferred the dogs from Oxford to the police kennels confirmed that Robbie and Sophie were the dogs he had taken , and Mrs Sumner — breeder of the Sharmas ' dogs — stated that they were certainly not the dogs she had sold . |
| 26 | Providing there was no direct Chinese communist intervention he was utterly confident that in one year not only would he have secured the Tonkin Delta but would have completely eradicated the Vietminh from South Vietnam so that , by the spring of 1953 , the Vietminh revolt would have been stamped out . |
| 27 | Shoppers approaching what LET have named The Galleries from New Street and High Street will be channeled along a brand new street flanked by granite and stone-clad pseudo-Classical shops and offices , entering the new mall under a vast glazed dome , second in diameter only to that of St Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 28 | First she was terrified there was a burglar , then when she 'd searched the house from top to bottom she got mad and shoved me back to bed . |
| 29 | Someone had carefully searched the house from top to bottom but nothing was missing . |
| 30 | In a third serving of a bankruptcy notice in 1911 , Wilson claimed not only that the Federation had inspired the plaintiff , a seaman called Nielsen , to take the action , but that they had moved the plaintiff from place to place so that he could not be found , making it impossible to discharge the union 's debt to him . |