Example sentences of "from [noun prp] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernice took the repeater from Rosheen and tossed her the laser pistol in exchange . |
| 2 | So I had Drew use his charm on her to get her away from Chuck and bring her here today . ’ |
| 3 | Mentally remove five stones of body weight from Lawson and discover he could become Mr Darcy . |
| 4 | If he thought this thing out carefully , he might be able to steal the netfly from Blackrag and use it himself , but these were future plans . |
| 5 | It was in April of that year that F.W. Hardy , captain of Stockton Cycle Club , got together with a few others to complain that the Barnard Castle Meet was being dominated too much by clubs from Tyneside and suggested it was time for cycling clubs from the south of the region to break away . |
| 6 | A neighbor summoned the owner from Dorset and told her it was a scandal that her house should be vacant when young people were looking for accommodation , so she let the house to us . |
| 7 | She took the frog from Maud and held it up near her face . |
| 8 | On 31 August 1986 , just three weeks before the Fall Term was due to begin , Donleavy called from Washington and told him he had to make an urgent trip to Lebanon . |
| 9 | He pushed the wadding carefully into the cartridge before taking it from Benny and placing it on the garden wall . |
| 10 | He was , however , failing to thrive , so Maureen and I decided to take him away from Barny and put him into care , so to speak . |
| 11 | In October , however , Turkey , hoping to gain territory from Russia and to reinforce her flagging influence in the Balkans , had entered the war on the side of the Central Powers . |
| 12 | To choose one of many examples , I can point to the case of Nottingham-born Herol Graham , whose parents came from Jamaica and gave him no support in his sporting endeavours , at first in sprinting and then in boxing where he made his mark as a light-middleweight . |
| 13 | In 1986 he took over the captaincy from Fletcher and led them to their third championship in four years , but early in 1987 he suffered a bad loss of form and the team slipped right down the table . |
| 14 | ‘ It was Mr Gray 's custom to pick you up from Medewich and take you out to Markham cum Cumbermound . |
| 15 | She received her overnight bag and Rachel 's box from Bryn and thanked him warmly . |
| 16 | ‘ Where did you find this then , ma'am ? ’ asked the sergeant , taking the photo from Blanche and studying it by the map-reading light . |
| 17 | It was later that evening that he took a white muslin dress out of the bag with which he had returned from Paris and asked me to wear it as a nightdress . |
| 18 | Edwards acquired the famous Maffeo Pinelli collection of early printed books from Venice and sold it at auction in 1789 and 1790 . |
| 19 | ‘ Wo n't be long , ’ said Tom , and he took the haversack from Willie and left him and Sammy sitting on the stone steps . |
| 20 | ‘ Thanks , ’ said Jenny , taking the traveller 's cheques from Adam and putting them into her flying jacket . |
| 21 | Ever since that ghastly winter 's night when she had come back from Wimbledon and said she was pregnant . |
| 22 | On 18 September 1991 the mother wrongfully removed the children from Australia and brought them to England . |
| 23 | Get one from Marks and take it back after wards . |
| 24 | Projecting all guilt upon women , branding them as lustful allies of the Devil who wean men from God and lead them from the path of virtue , the Genesis story enshrines the myth of feminine evil as a justification for female oppression . |
| 25 | He came from Kalmar and showed me photographs of his family and girlfriend . |
| 26 | And , on the other side , one outcome of the Truce of Orléans was that Charles took the abbacy of Ferrières away from Odo and gave it to a member of the community whose chief recommendation ( with still more pull than his fine scholarship ) was a readiness to commit himself to Charles . |
| 27 | He admitted that they were from Camilla but passed them off as a simple gesture of friendship . |
| 28 | Then he charged to the other end to anticipate a precise through ball from McMahon and reach it just before the advancing Lukic and flick it into the empty net . |
| 29 | Brückner had bought the painted ceiling from Italy and had it fitted . |
| 30 | Him and Mr he was another butcher , he was a wholesaler , and he used to perhaps buy twenty or thirty between them and we used to drive them home from Upware and split them . |