Example sentences of "has taken from " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE death of the Dowager Duchess of Rutland has taken from us the last and most loved of our nieces ( for niece she was , although older than the present writers by five and ten years ) . |
| 2 | Look at the drop the mechanism has taken from the rollers ! ’ |
| 3 | Ferry himself would probably tell you that in it 's search for perfection , the motor industry has taken from the driver and given to the machine . |
| 4 | The cash it has taken from the likes of you and me has gone to cover its losses caused by firms going to the wall because of the recession . |
| 5 | Its defence mechanism is not rapid reproduction like the greenfly , instead it surrounds itself with the familiar frothy blob of air bubbles that it forms as it spits out the sap it has taken from the plant — instead of spitting it back into the plant . |
| 6 | And there 's a neat feature that Claris has taken from its Apple software — you can tear off the colour and pattern palettes from the drawing icons and put them anywhere on-screen . |
| 7 | One idea Claris has taken from its Apple Mac software is the tear-off sheets , which cut down on mouse movement |
| 8 | Such complaints are symptomatic of a profession whose confidence has been eroded by the constant battering it has taken from politicians and the media over the past ten years , and who are shell-shocked by the speed and scale of recent curriculum innovation . |
| 9 | That his party has taken from Polly Peck shareholders — |
| 10 | Goram is a self-confessed amalgam of the best bits he has taken from Leighton , Alan Rough , the extrovert personality he replaced at Easter Road , and Alan Hodgkinson , the five times capped former England goalkeeper who has been his mentor since Oldham , and now works with the Scottish team . |