Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My bravado emanated from the knowledge that a certain lady was looking out of her window . |
| 2 | yes , erm my wife came from the Midlands , from Coventry and her family roots were in Coventry at the Midlands , in fact there she still has numerous nieces and nephews and great nephews and great nieces there to this day , my with the exception of a sister who moved , who , to Basildon , erm I have two brothers and er they still live in London , still live in East Ham , er the distance is not too great erm and , but obviously as we get older the amount of visiting we do will be constricted by the difficulties of getting from Harlow to East Ham especially when one is compelled to stop driving a motor car |
| 3 | My father came from the Clyde , and I 've still got some cousins near Dunoon . |
| 4 | My father ran from the house shouting , ‘ Hummy ! ’ |
| 5 | Now the sky grew nearly as black as night , and I galloped into the hotel just as the most torrential downpour I have seen in my life cascaded from the sky as the waters of the Red Sea might have descended on Pharaoh . |
| 6 | The fact that such an ‘ Expressive Revolution ’ is not unrelated to other , much more obviously parricidal ones , and that all of these insurrections against cultural restraint can be traced to childhood failures in the acquisition of the superego is nicely illustrated by an Italian terrorist who , having put his revolutionary ideology into practice by murdering seventeen people and kidnapping an American general , justified his activities at his trial by proudly explaining that ‘ My challenge began from the school benches of Centocelle [ his home town ] . |
| 7 | I know he 's got his reputation as a good teacher to keep up , but that does n't matter to me , I 'm different , I 'm not like this soft lot down here , my folks came from the North , descended from the Vikings , and I do n't want to be liked , I do n't want to be good , I do n't want to be in the football team , or a useful member of anything , I do n't want to know . |
| 8 | And my mother came from the farm along the shore and they were in the same position they worked with boats too . |
| 9 | She felt the steel strength of his arms around her and her skin quivered from the warmth of his breath on her cheek before he released her as if she might contaminate him . |
| 10 | Her mind turned from the partridges , naturally enough , to the possibility of Dimity marrying . |
| 11 | Their doubts arose from the inability to predict or control how the courts would use the power . |
| 12 | And there was that strange smell again which Dot recognized from the darkness of the night before of things dying and rotting and growing again . |
| 13 | In a fast sweep her eyes ran from the top of his dark head down to the tips of his elegant feet , and she bit back a groan as she realised that that tempting glimpse of his body had done nothing to prepare her for Luke Calder in the magnificent flesh . |
| 14 | Their feet shrank from the chill ice and they squawked with delight . |
| 15 | A variety of clowns with painted faces , pointed hats and patches on their costumes emerged from the memorial hall about 10.15am on Spring Bank Holiday Monday in 1988 . |
| 16 | Her breathing became a tiny sound , a mew , and her hips rose from the bed . |
| 17 | RITUALISTIC as it was , the Tory grass-roots ' orgiastic display of support for their leader came from the heart yesterday . |
| 18 | With a group of nude studies , those portraits reveal the formidable skills in draughtsmanship which Kollwitz possessed from the beginning of her career . |
| 19 | Its importance arose from the extent to which Christianity had by the early eleventh century become part of political and national life , its complexity in part from the complex nature of church affairs themselves . |
| 20 | Emma backed cancer research after two of her relatives died from the disease . |
| 21 | As her head emerged from the neck hole Travis held up a small square package . |
| 22 | A bit raffish in her carelessness she stood with both feet trampling the heap of clothes until her head emerged from the muffling of the white , over-ribboned , nightgown . |
| 23 | Although they never said it , he knew their bitterness stemmed from the fact that he would be in charge of the operation . |
| 24 | Its brevity , awkward composition and lukewarm style of its writing stemmed from the Committee 's revisions . |
| 25 | Thus the complexity of the universe around us and its details arose from the uncertainty principle in the early stages . |
| 26 | The theme was picked up in the ornaments , which in their turn ranged from the kind of small plaster ship one won at a fairground , to a vast silver centrepiece of a battle cruiser . |
| 27 | Her steward walked from the place where the pack animals were tethered , a paper parasol in one hand . |
| 28 | She turned as her maid appeared from the anteroom with two dresses , one gold and one white , which were held up for Jane 's inspection.Jane pointed to the pale gold dress then returned her attention to the mirror . |
| 29 | Her surprise stemmed from the fact she had walked out on him two years earlier , sworn her friends to secrecy and moved hundreds of miles to make a new life for herself . |
| 30 | That year , total sales for the company were in the region of £300,000 , of which £250,000 came from the shops . |