Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] from [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I got evicted from my last place I was at .
2 Keith Courtney from Dungannon has withdrawn from his British Title fight due to a cracked rib .
3 Keith Courtney from Dungannon has withdrawn from his British Title fight due to a cracked rib .
4 AFTER one of the longest marriages in showbusiness , Petula Clark has parted from her French-born husband Claude Wolff .
5 THE Government 's most outspoken food safety critic , Professor Richard Lacey , has resigned from his only Whitehall post claiming it is being ‘ neutered ’ to protect the food and drug industry .
6 Outspoken food safety critic , Professor Richard Lacey , has resigned from his only Whitehall post .
7 Its historical importance in the development of modern ideology has come from its unique claim to explain experience , however eccentrically .
8 For its third year Paris 's Salon du Dessin de Collection has moved from its intimate setting in basement rooms of the Hotel George V to the altogether grander Grand Palais .
9 Geoff is married , has a young family and has moved from his former home in West Yorkshire to Barmill .
10 Dr John Coffman , as President of the MDS Group , heads a company which has expanded from its original credit scoring base into three closely related businesses : credit and market analysis , credit management software , and credit consulting and training .
11 Soon Alice has woken from her strange sleep and the frenzy that was becoming quite frightening .
12 I hope your car has recovered from its long journeys .
13 Even if there existed a uniform nationwide trend in the birth and death rates of each population sub-group identified on the basis of sex , age , occupation , ethnic status and so on , local populations would still develop differently from one another , and from the ‘ national ’ trend , because these rates would be operating on the distinctive demographic structures which each locality has inherited from its past histories of fertility , mortality and migration .
14 There is a significant difference , and I do not feel it is only a class and an age difference , between the spare dignity of the oath Marco has learned from his early years and the oath which the Rat has devised as part of the game he has created for his Club :
15 Mr Ashdown intends to make a keynote speech in Dunoon today , dwelling on the lessons he has learned from his private tours round Britain since the election .
16 The dining room , with its pale marbled walls and black and glass furniture , has survived from its first overhaul as it is only really used for entertaining and for Ella 's piano practice .
17 Coach Lane has returned from his native Australia to watch his side perform this afternoon .
18 True , some plates seem to have been designed as a reminder , sometimes polite , sometimes far from it , that the volume has strayed from its proper home .
19 However , sometimes the knowledge that a horse has acquired from its own species brings an unexpected result for the horse when used in relation to us .
20 This sometimes led to productive and satisfactory change ; but in some classrooms it resulted in confusion as procedures became separated from their underlying objectives , and as teachers strove to balance the conflicting demands of a mixture of well-tried and untried practices , of a wide variety of grouping strategies , and of many different activities going on simultaneously in their classrooms .
21 To say that the GMC should not get involved in assessing the acceptability of a treatment a doctor uses in the way it is now prepared to assess a doctor 's professional behaviour is to cede the argument to those who claim that self regulation has become an introspective , bureaucratic activity that has grown detached from its original purpose of protecting patients .
22 CHILD superstar Macaulay Culkin 's next role could be as a boy who gets divorced from his own parents .
23 It 's just like , no two girls got expelled from my last school for drugs but I think they actually one of them gave it to the other one but they were both expelled .
24 To recap then , there are two ways in which some awareness of credit costs may influence people 's shopping : their subjective impression of comparative costliness , which tends to be reasonably realistic ; and their objective awareness of interest rates and so forth , which tends to be sketchy , and — given American experience — even with increasing familiarity after implementation of Consumer Credit Act quotations and advertising regulations is likely to remain divorced from their actual understanding of the cost of individual credit transactions .
25 Apart from finding globules of mercury in people 's shoes , a contemporary commentator , and opponent of this form of treatment , describes two men who used the same tavern regularly and both having supped from their little bottles of mercury would smoke a pipe and down some wine .
26 Who would have guessed from his cold efficiency that this was only Damien 's second contest in two years .
27 When I finally took off the overtrousers , the fleece trousers I was wearing underneath were completely dry , which is what I would have expected from their three-layer Gore-Tex construction .
28 He failed , however , to get the rapturous reception he may have expected from his chief apologist on the international scene .
29 The reflection implied that this tract of wild land might have come from my own time , the epicentre of the disturbance , and so might be instrumental in restoring me to my own day !
30 As a Jumièges monk , some of his information may have derived from its former abbot , Robert , who became bishop of London and then in 1051 archbishop of Canterbury , but fled England during the political crisis of 1052 , subsequently returning to Jumièges , where he died .
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