Example sentences of "to collect [noun pl] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it does not extend to the Regimental Headquarters , where the Adjutant appears to be becoming somewhat heated on the telephone as a local unit announce that a helicopter will be arriving at 1130 hours to collect maps from the adjoining map depot . |
| 2 | Local authorities are chasing up and down the land trying to collect taxes from people who may have moved three , four or five times . |
| 3 | If this is not true , it may be necessary to collect animals from a range of sites , mark them and release them again on a single site some considerable time before the project is to be carried out . |
| 4 | Charles Cockell plans to collect moths from his microlight plane . |
| 5 | Charles Cockell ( PRO : COE-KELL ) will be using a device invented by Barnes Wallis to collect moths from his microlight plane . |
| 6 | It has failed to collect subscriptions from its 700,000 members and is saddled with loss-making projects , such as the journal la Lettre du hérisson , which costs FFr250,000 for a circulation of 1,000 copies . |
| 7 | The Roslavl' party cell is thinking of recruiting up to seventy-five soldiers from the town garrison in order to collect potatoes from the area as a tax in kind . |
| 8 | ‘ The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the verandah of the missionary compound , Government station , or planter 's bungalow , where , armed with pencil and notebook and at times with a whisky and soda , he has been accustomed to collect statements from informants , write down stories , and fill out sheets of paper with savage texts . |
| 9 | Treading water instead of treading soil and cutting by hand to collect bullrushes from the sides of the River Thames . |
| 10 | I am beginning to collect stories from workers about the circumstances in which this happens , and there is no shortage of them . |
| 11 | Do n't forget to collect items from the laundry or dry cleaner 's . |
| 12 | Leaving behind the property wagons , and giving Lucie instructions to collect tributes from the people of Pontydd , he drove the pageant up to the Hall . |
| 13 | Refreshed and a little more composed after my love tryst , I went back to Richmond where Benjamin asked me to accompany Southgate to collect stores from the Tower . |
| 14 | Miss Williams took him to meet the police Land Rover at the stable gate , a bone-thin , wiry woman in her late fifties , her expression sufficiently forbidding to prevent the parents , edging cars through the gate to collect children from the ten o'clock ride , from asking any questions . |
| 15 | ‘ I need the space to collect flowers from Covent Garden market and for my luggage when I drive to Belgium to see my mother . ’ |
| 16 | He was abducted by three men and beaten up when he went with his girlfriend to collect clothes from the house where she used to live in Trowbridge , Wilts . |
| 17 | Give him a school leaver any day , or a nice , motherly woman going back to work once her children were grown-up , or an obliging pensioner , prepared to collect trolleys from the car parks … |
| 18 | The powers that be over at Sun Microsystems Computer Corp and SunSoft Inc are starting to collect complaints from cloners and resellers over the way SMCC salesmen are hustling volume accounts , not playing by the rules and nosing compatibles out of upgrade sites . |
| 19 | As my turn approached and the queue thinned , I was afforded an occasional glimpse of the Smiths as they moved to collect purchases from the shelves behind them . |
| 20 | To supplement this wage data Rowntree sent his assistant , May Kendall , to collect budgets from a sample of forty-eight households representing low , medium and high wage districts . |