Example sentences of "[verb] from [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To some extent he was at first exonerated from confronting them with this reality by grants of papal crusading tenths , sexennial ones levied on the clergy only , authorized in 1274 and 1291 , and yielding about £20,000 annually . |
| 2 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 3 | The other half of this group ( about a quarter of the entire sample ) either rejected the Authority 's recommendations entirely or claimed that although they agreed with them in principle they were prevented from implementing them by unsuitable classroom conditions or other school circumstances . |
| 4 | Bush hailed the verdict as a " victory against the drug lords " but Noriega 's chief attorney Frank Rubino , promising lengthy appeals , stated that it had been a political case ; the defence had effectively been prevented from treating it as such , and the judge had instructed the jury on April 3 not to consider any political aspects of the case . |
| 5 | Not that his pursuers would be distracted from finding him by such petty secrecy . |