Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ward was due to take over the driving and at the end of it I slumped into the seat beside him in a happy daze which insulated me from all sense of reality . |
| 2 | It had a depth and penetration which separated it from most other consultants ' reports of the time . |
| 3 | As she did one of the English players danced across the screen and up the sideline , outwitting several of the Moroccan side who tackled him from all directions . |
| 4 | The essential characteristics of this primacy which distinguished it from such primacies as that of Hamburg or Lyons were , first , that it was centred in a monastic community , and second , that its roots and its authorization went back ( as Anselm was persuaded ) to its original constitution in the seventh century . |
| 5 | The Victorian was an integral part of a Northants revival which took them from 13th in the Championship table in 1951 to second place , behind the all-conquering Surrey combination , in 1957 . |
| 6 | ‘ Bardolet 's co-driver made a timing error on the last rally which dropped them from first to fourth and that cost them the lead in the championship , ’ explains Meeke . |
| 7 | Fundamentally , what was at issue was whether the army , now ideally composed of men with at least a modicum of training and military skill , should be led by men who merited their responsibilities , awarded to them on behalf of the community by the king who paid them from public funds ( ‘ la peccune publique ’ ) . |
| 8 | During the course of the nineteenth century , archaeology moved in a quite different direction , becoming , like the earlier diffusionary theories , increasingly obsessed with objects as such , and treating them as having an independent behaviour in a manner which separated them from any social context and which amounted to a genuine fetishism or the artefact . |
| 9 | The colts were 44th , having been 39th at halfway , following a contribution of 14 mins. 31 from Oliver Holter who promoted them from 66th . |
| 10 | Some historians have argued that , once the Indians had become part of the Christian community , their cause was championed by the church who protected them from some of the worst excesses of colonial power ( Poblete 1970 ) . |
| 11 | Even then , it was the desertion of allies , the failure of his Italian bankers , and the capture of ransomable kings which saved him from financial disaster . |
| 12 | That hard work has paid dividends for Washington , who has already scored notable career wins over Connors , Chang , Cherkasov , Wheaton and Lendl , and who claimed his first ever senior title in Memphis in February , a win which moved him from 38 to 23 on the IBM/ATP Computer , his highest ever showing . |
| 13 | oh I 'll have to have look down there then , cos we buy 'em , now where do we get 'em from now ? , er Co-Op we got 'em from last time did n't we ? |