Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similar complaints were heard in the Church of England about the condition of curates during the nineteenth century , a time when what pay they got came from the parish priest under whom they served or whose place they took in the parish while he lived elsewhere . |
| 2 | Because police procedurals , though they tend to have from the nature of their subject matter rather more social content than the straight murder puzzle , are still books written primarily as entertainment . |
| 3 | Some members of the National Heritage Select Committee had forgotten that the ‘ ordinary ’ people they sought to protect from the ‘ gutter press ’ bought popular tabloids , and that these same newspapers did not attract a significant number of complaints . |
| 4 | They are willing to do so because they expect to be paid back , and because they expect to profit from the transaction through the interest they charge on the loan — it would be a strange world if they did n't ! |
| 5 | They are willing to do so because they expect to be paid back and because they expect to profit from the transaction through the interest they charge on the loan — it would be a strange world if they did n't ! |
| 6 | Klein provides perhaps the least teleological analysis of the development of a subject , and her examples of adult psychosis may be linked to Hegel 's , and especially Marx 's , models of rupture , since they appear to result from the subject 's belief in the alien nature of some fragmented aspects of the self it has become unable to sublate . |
| 7 | Er they do after , yes th the , the nationalists had moved back across the south after nineteen forty five erm th th they 'd , they 'd retreated from the Japanese progressively after nineteen forty one and abandoned Shanghai and etcetera . |
| 8 | when two men tried to leave the factory in this van which they 'd stolen from the compound . |
| 9 | Then , as if they 'd recovered from the surprise , they began to laugh , snorting and giggling in delight at the water being thrown at them , like two children playing a game . |
| 10 | Ian and Barbara meet — the latter having had a difficult time avoiding Nero 's amorous advances — and with the help of Tavius ( who is a Christian ) , they manage to escape from the city . |
| 11 | They set sail from the Guadalquivir River under the proud corporate title of the Armada de Molucca , amply armed but hopelessly provisioned , with crews composed of men of nine different nationalities and of innumerable and in many cases mutually antagonistic temperaments . |
| 12 | At last they decided to withdraw from the square and were on the point of departure when they were suddenly surrounded by a group of tough-looking soldiers , helmeted and armed . |
| 13 | However , not all females show equally strong preferences , and they decided to breed from the females that did mate with a quadrimaculata male , to see whether their offspring would also show the preference . |
| 14 | Yes , I think whenever one makes judgment about therapy being better or worse you have to say er on what criteria and there are certainly certain criteria on which group therapy would do better for certain problems like us making feel people feel better if they had a symptom or problem which erm make them feel worse because , because they felt isolated from the community , so it means other people who have got the same problem makes you feel better erm and er certainly suggestion therapy can produce dramatic results especially in the short run . |
| 15 | all that money that they keep demanding from the er th wa th wa the firms and such like that ought to have been ploughed back into the firm ! |
| 16 | Problem is , the products are so popular with the cast that they keep disappearing from the set ! |
| 17 | Nonetheless , the absence of labourers is more apparent than real : the local practice of not assessing goods of less value than £2 did not mean that any personal property owned by people of the labouring sort was generally ignored , for a good many men later taxed on wages owned goods worth anything up to £10 in 1522 , which ( unless perhaps having disposed of , say , a beast or two ) they managed to conceal from the taxman and convince him that they had nothing but the minimum in wages . |
| 18 | It is now going to be very difficult for the Lions to win this series , although they did come from the same position to win the series four years ago in Australia . |
| 19 | But , they also go on headed note paper which says Oxford City Council Environmental Health Department and all the other stuff we put on the top , erm and it 's perfectly clear that they do come from the City Department upon your behalf . |
| 20 | They aim to generalise from the relational model by capturing as much semantic information from an application domain as possible . |
| 21 | And displacement , how far they 've got from the start line ? |
| 22 | Most of them say they 've learned from the experience . |
| 23 | When I arrived they showed me the letter they had received from the Chief Education Officer that morning which explained the proposed Statementing procedure : |
| 24 | By 1987 about 65% of the women were no longer under observation , mainly because they had moved from the recruiting doctors ' practice area . |
| 25 | Carefully removing the long pane of glass they had loosened from the skylight frame , the two men lifted it clear and Larsen propped it against his knees . |
| 26 | The 18th-century mountain traveller John Macculloch described Sutherlands as containing ‘ mountains which seem as if they had tumbled from the clouds , having nothing to do with the country or each other . ’ |
| 27 | Beside it on a table burned a candle , the source of the light they had seen from the garden . |
| 28 | Although they were looking at the clump of bushes from a different angle now , she knew it was the same clump they had seen from the gate . |
| 29 | Both had been at the hospital until after midnight , though they had understood from the moment they arrived that their son was dead . |
| 30 | The pressure of population caused much less concern in the Welsh Border counties where there was still sufficient land available to allow poor immigrants to erect cottages on the wastes and to claim common rights to go with the few acres that they had cleared from the woods or the moors . |