Example sentences of "[pers pn] had taken from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grim knowledge that she was on the verge of suffocation appalled me and when she stumbled and almost fell the hand in my pocket gripped more tightly on the scalpel which I had taken from my car along with the adrenalin . |
| 2 | She moved along the counter to where , beneath it , on a narrow table , there stood a number of trays and , taking up the brass hammer , she broke the edge of the toffee and put four pieces into a newspaper cone that she had taken from a number stacked up by the side of the tray . |
| 3 | She glared and banged down the iron pan she had taken from the fire , then lifting the lid allowed a huge cloud of steam to escape into the air . |
| 4 | She took off the snazzy shades she had taken from the preacherman they 'd jump-rammed this morning , and passed them back to Andrew Jean . |
| 5 | Sister Aloysius was wiping the hand now with a piece of rough linen she had taken from a pocket in her habit . |
| 6 | He realised with a sense of desperation that he would have to be twice as cunning as his wife if he was to recover that which she had taken from him . |
| 7 | She raised the oddly shaped blaster she had taken from one of the Chelonians and fired . |
| 8 | She reached into her saddlebag and drew out a small cloth containing white clay which she had taken from Wynne-Jones 's lodge and which she had used in the making of Moondream . |
| 9 | I knew the way then , for we were back-tracking the route we had taken from the airport . |
| 10 | And soon afterwards , in the first week of their marriage , Dostoevsky showed her the stone under which Raskolnikov hid the stuff he had taken from the old moneylender . |
| 11 | And , most of all , Trent would like to have known why the photograph he had taken from Don Roberto 's house had been there in the first place . |
| 12 | The old lady now moved her shoulder to let George Banks , the butler , take her plate away and hand it to Patrick McCann , who was standing behind him , then to place before her a plate he had taken from the sideboard ; and she , after looking down on it , turned her head up towards him and said , ‘ Iced pudding , Banks ? |
| 13 | About three weeks ' pay he had taken from Rab . |
| 14 | At that moment he felt as if the chain he had taken from Mary Duncan now fettered him to his wife . |
| 15 | Malekith and his followers already had the Shrine of Asuryan in their possession , and Malekith possessed the crown that he had taken from the dead Phoenix King . |
| 16 | He was seated on the sofa sifting through a batch of papers he had taken from his attache case . |
| 17 | Cranston delved into a small leather pouch he had taken from his saddle-bag , undid the cord at the neck and drew out a small vase containing the poison he had taken from Springall 's house . |
| 18 | Cranston delved into a small leather pouch he had taken from his saddle-bag , undid the cord at the neck and drew out a small vase containing the poison he had taken from Springall 's house . |
| 19 | The stranger let go and quickly thumbed through a small black book he had taken from his belt . |
| 20 | Rincewind stood up as slowly as he dared , and drew from his belt the short sword he had taken from the guard a few hours and a hundred years ago . |
| 21 | As she began to feel faint she reached for his smouldering cloak , the short red cloak he had taken from the raider . |
| 22 | Hamilton showed him the photographs he had taken from the German flier , and told the Prime Minister that they were of Rudolf Hess , who had crashed a fighter plane into a field in Scotland the night before . |
| 23 | He refused to say where he had sold the items he had taken from the house . |