Example sentences of "[noun] they [vb past] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vale dominated the first 45 minutes against a Stockport side they dismissed from the second division play-off last Wednesday . |
| 2 | By and large they fell in happily with the exhortations they received from the Arab world not to take any unauthorized political initiatives . |
| 3 | In the north-west , too , in Galicia , the rebels quickly triumphed , thanks to the assistance they received from the Civil Guard in overcoming the resistance of loyal troops and civilians . |
| 4 | At the first watering place they jumped from the open wagons and rushed to douse their burning clothes . |
| 5 | The raising of a ‘ grain curtain ’ is threatening the economic stability of those countries which have lost the protection they enjoyed from the former Soviet empire . |
| 6 | Schools were asked to indicate the kind of support they requested from the various agencies . |
| 7 | All the houses in the neighbourhood have these alarms , and Vic admits that they are necessary , with burglaries increasing in frequency and boldness all the time , but the system they inherited from the previous owners of the house , with its magnetic contacts , infra-red scanners , pressure pads and panic buttons , is in his opinion over-elaborate . |