Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] from [art] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It declared him to be ‘ in no sense party political ’ ; despite having ‘ roots on the left ’ , he had become fascinated from the mid-1970s onwards ( like Jay ) by Thatcherite economics . |
| 2 | Here , at the front , on this side of the wide road , a woman hurried along , having crossed from the houses behind . |
| 3 | The faster heart rates may therefore have resulted from the babies already being small in mid-gestation . |
| 4 | Although the bird was native to America , its name may have evolved from the days when turkey was first distributed in England by Turkish merchants . |
| 5 | After our half term holiday most of the leaves had fallen from the trees here and in the park . |
| 6 | From his wrinkled face and sunburned skin he looked as though he had risen from the ranks rather than graduating from Saint Cyr or the Ecole Militaire . |
| 7 | The shots had sounded from the hills somewhere to the north , and rather than wasting time on the main path that rose with the gentle contours of the valley , we took a short cut up the steep , almost sheer , cliff behind the houses . |
| 8 | The last glow had gone from the sunflowers now and they hung their heads on their spindly supports . |