Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sinatra also held the rights to the movie and withdrew it from the public domain shortly after release because it closely shadowed the Kennedy assassination . |
| 2 | But Patsy decided she needed a hand with the unpacking and phoned him from the car on the way home . |
| 3 | He took a taper and lit it from the large wax candle burning in front of the statue of the Madonna . |
| 4 | Juliet smiled at Donna and followed him from the room . |
| 5 | She was a little overweight , her hands a touch too pudgy when she reached for various books and took them from the shelves . |
| 6 | He picked up the tray and followed her from the room . |
| 7 | It was Karl Franz who led the charge of the Reiksguard at the battle of Norduin against the Bretonnians , where the Emperor 's personal valour finally broke the resistance of the Bretonnian flank guard and drove them from the narrow defile which they had defiantly held throughout the battle . |
| 8 | Jesus has destroyed the devil 's work and delivered you from the power of sin . |
| 9 | The band were initially looking for a lighting rig and a PA system to do a gig in Aberdeen and obtained them from the music shop she worked in . |
| 10 | Your mother was a witch 's daughter , born in your world but not in your time — long before that , in a time when they feared witches and hung them from the gallows tree . |
| 11 | The glass itself was converted into smudged mirrors which enlarged their ambience and distanced them from the storm . |
| 12 | The ruler of Sharjah , Shaikh bin Sultan Mohammed al-Qassimi , on Feb. 4 , 1990 , removed from his brother , Shaikh Abdel-Aziz bin Mohammed al-Qassimi , the title of Crown Prince and dismissed him from the deputy chairmanship of the Sharjah Executive Council . |
| 13 | Towards the end of my Baghdad tour I had regular tussles with the group captain in friendly games of tennis , but I was never able to take a set off him , which never surprised me since he was more or less the permanent Inter-Services Tennis Champion in the UK , ( Oddly enough , Jackie Hunter was my station commander early in the war and saved me from the wrath of my Air Officer Commanding — " Maori " Coningham — when I brought my bombs back when everyone else had " found the target " , but this was before the days of the night camera . ) |
| 14 | I left the bike in the shed and watched him from the shed door for a while , poised so that if he happened to wake up it would look as though I was just in the act of shutting the door . |
| 15 | He personally led the last expedition to the Blighted Isle and reclaimed it from the Dark Elves . |
| 16 | Ruth nodded and before she could ask him if he was too he clasped her hands and hauled her from the water into his arms . |
| 17 | ( a ) It confirms whether you have correctly identified and understood the main points and separated them from the subsidiary details . |
| 18 | She kept hold of his hand and guided him from the room . |
| 19 | Dom João offered her his hand and helped her from the litter . |
| 20 | The Supreme Council of the armed forces on Jan. 8 sentenced Mohamed Ali Seineldin , Luis Baraldini , Oscar Ricardo Vega and four other officers to indefinite imprisonment and discharged them from the army as the ringleaders of a military rebellion on Dec. 3 [ see p. 37913 ] . |
| 21 | The whipmakers plaited their whips through the railings and hung them from the trees . |
| 22 | Well , your mother came rushing in from the car with a rare display of energy and snatched it from the fellow 's hands . |
| 23 | I could have sat and stared all evening but Benjamin suddenly realised the drift of my eyes as well as my lechery and , at the appropriate time , seized me by the arm and hustled me from the hall . |