Sentence examples for retrieved a box from inspiring English sources

Then, from a nearby worktable, he retrieved a box of kitchen matches.

Mrs. Currie also said, according to lawyers familiar with her account, that she had retrieved a box of gifts to Ms. Lewinsky from Mr. Clinton, including a dress, a hat pin and a brooch.

Investigators retrieved a box cutter, but no gun.

It was there that Gelambong took me to retrieve a box of papers he had acquired.

Only when Boo-Seng Lee James Saitoo) stoops to retrieve a box of personal effects from the floor, an exhausted houseplant peeking over the cardboard rim, do we find a source for the sad tension quietly oozing from him.

Her body was found only after Martin, who'd gone up to the attic storage area on that side of the building to retrieve a box of decorations, smelled the decomposition.

In the Crenshaw district, pregnant women took food, and one woman yelled from a car to her 9-year-old daughter to retrieve a box of Pampers for her younger siblings.

Under an old carpet she removed a floorboard and retrieved a small wooden box.

Sometimes the paperwork was retrieved from a box behind the precinct desk that is emptied once each shift.

The manuscript had been presumed lost since Capote's death in 1984, but it was revealed last year that the manuscript had been retrieved from a box of documents that his housesitter had picked up from the curb after Capote abandoned his Brooklyn apartment in 1966.

ANYONE who has ventured to the attic to retrieve a shoe box of photographic negatives has probably seen what havoc is wreaked by warm temperatures and high humidity.