Example sentences of "[to-vb] orders from " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he said he was unable to resist orders from a drowned boyhood friend called Delroy , who was speaking to him from ‘ beyond the grave ’ . |
| 2 | An IT supplier at a manufacturing company which supplies DIY retailers says : ‘ We have PC software that allows us to receive orders from people like B&Q and Wickes via the Tradanet network , and we 're experimenting with sending back invoices that way . |
| 3 | It is not in the nature of partisan warfare to produce victory in the field : loth to leave their territories or to receive orders from soldiers , guerrillas were difficult to use in strategical combination . |
| 4 | Sequent expects to continue to win orders from the traditional mainframe market and says it expanded its sales force to 160 from 125 at the end of 1991 although total employment fell to 1,550 from a peak of 1,800 . |
| 5 | CAR component maker Behr , which makes air conditioning for Mercedes and BMW , is giving Welsh suppliers a chance to win orders from the company . |
| 6 | I do n't want to have to take orders from some Foreign Office fairy . ’ |
| 7 | One case often cited is that , for instance , it is rational to take orders from a competent doctor in a course of treatment . |
| 8 | They have to cope with one or more project managers , and to take orders from their own department head . |
| 9 | There was no question of his telephoning Émile Chaillot : he was not going to take orders from a mere administrator . |
| 10 | She was n't going to take orders from Julius . |
| 11 | He was n't going to take orders from a jumped-up sixth-former . |
| 12 | Manager D , with a time span of two to three years , did not feel that C , with a time span of three to four , was distant enough hierarchically to take orders from . |
| 13 | He replaced Gen. Jorge Moreira Rojas [ see p. 37851 ] , who had stated that " professional ethics " did not allow him to take orders from the new Defence Minister , Klinsky , who as a rear-admiral was subordinate to him . |
| 14 | It was all very well for Dawlish to tell me to take orders from the Brain , he did n't have to obey them . |