Example sentences of "have borrowed [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's sticking a plaster on the cash haemorrhage of what will be the biggest sum a British Government has borrowed in a year . |
| 2 | I lost a sodden pair of boots and socks , and William 's day bag , which I 'd borrowed for a rucksack . |
| 3 | I was up afford dawn getting all ready , setting the china , both ours and what we 'd borrowed on the trestles in the orchard , helping Gideon to put the casks of beer in the yard , ready for the men to fill their harvest bottles , and fetching water from the well for the tea . |
| 4 | The only touch I was remotely pleased with was an elegant , cane-handled parasol I 'd borrowed from a colleague . |
| 5 | Most of them would also have borrowed in the open market , maybe from a clearing bank where they had a current account and the manager had allowed them to draw over and above what was in it — an overdraft ( the cheapest way of borrowing ? ) — or perhaps a Personal Loan . |
| 6 | The only funeral emblem that he wore was a pair of black worsted stockings , which no doubt he had borrowed for the occasion … |
| 7 | Owen had borrowed for the day some skilled police trackers , men who could follow a trail , or a man , even through the crowded streets of Cairo . |
| 8 | I wondered how comfortable he would be and what he would make of the covers I had borrowed from the farmer 's wife . |
| 9 | I was grateful for the radio he had borrowed from the farmer , although I had to play it almost inaudibly , so as not to disturb him . |
| 10 | Temple had enthusiasm , he had theories about pop culture and the importance of the teenager ; above all , he had some equipment which he had borrowed from the National Film School . |
| 11 | They were some of the men he had borrowed from the local District Chief . |
| 12 | Because it 's a word that we 've borrowed from the french word . |
| 13 | In the intervening years , you need make no capital repayments — you only pay interest on whatever you have borrowed plus the premiums for your pension plan . |
| 14 | In the intervening years , you need make no capital repayments — you only pay interest on whatever you have borrowed plus the premiums for your pension plan . |
| 15 | While I have been busy compounding a kingdom here for my son , I have borrowed from the English as I thought fit . |