Example sentences of "[pers pn] have taken from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever it was I 'd taken from Sunil 's house — and I 'd only done it as a favour to him , after all — he could n't have said anything to Nassim about it . |
| 2 | I wedged it in the carrier bag with the papers I 'd taken from Salome 's briefcase and then we went in search of the veggie noshery recommended by Fenella 's nice policeman . |
| 3 | Never having been one to look an unguarded telephone in the mouth , I made another call to the number on the Exhilarator brochure I 'd taken from Salome 's case . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've taken from him , ’ Ellie said . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps you 're not trying for the prize of a wedding-ring ; if so , I apologise , though nothing can bring back what I 've taken from you . ’ |
| 7 | I 've got some quotes here that I 've taken from the book which shows not only how Dickens thought women ought to behave , but how the readers , since he was writing for a public market , the readers too thought the ideal woman ought to behave . |
| 8 | I can count the number of trout that I have taken from this lovely loch on the fingers of one hand and blank days are the rule , but I keep going back for more . |
| 9 | I have probably saved you from years of frustration , waiting and hoping for someone good enough to come along and kill the one I have taken from you . ’ |
| 10 | I have also complained to you continually about the loss of orders I have taken from my customers , ie back orders which get lost on the computer or they are not delivered due to the lack of stock . |
| 11 | But the contact sheet she 'd taken from the office was not in her bag , not in any of the half dozen dead newspapers lying round the floor , not under any of the piles of flung-down clothes , not under the sofa , not in the bin . |
| 12 | I think what you 've t what you 've taken from us is the view |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Sister Aloysius was wiping the hand now with a piece of rough linen she had taken from a pocket in her habit . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She raised the oddly shaped blaster she had taken from one of the Chelonians and fired . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I knew the way then , for we were back-tracking the route we had taken from the airport . |
| 21 | We have taken from the Rottweiler , companionship and help in many fields : hunting , protecting our homes and family , pulling carts , acting as guide dogs for the blind , search and rescue , herding cattle and so on . |
| 22 | The relationship between ants and other animals , particularly their farmed Homoptera feeding off the host plants is complicated in itself but , in the Old World Tropics , mosquitoes of the genus Malaya are associated in their habits with certain ants , which run up and down tree trunks carrying the honey-dew they have taken from their aphids . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Hitch reached inside his jacket and touched the butt of the Beretta he 'd taken from Scott . |
| 28 | Scott seemed satisfied by this and slipped the magazine free from his own pistol , jamming in the full one he 'd taken from Hitch 's Beretta . |
| 29 | A large suitcase lay on the bed , still full of the clothes he 'd taken from the other room . |
| 30 | 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 . |