Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had emerged from apathy into active aggression , and my housemistress 's report for the term includes the advice , ‘ Sheila must learn to curb her natural exuberance . ’ |
| 2 | I 've suffered from tinnitus for ten years . |
| 3 | Many 's the time I 've slipped from top to bottom of the ladder , making a noise like the crack of doom , which was not however , sufficient to wake them ( as I could tell by their uninterrupted snores ) . |
| 4 | I 've er this , the the er hoe-down , I 've been advertising since before Christmas er and er although we did n't inform the members till about three weeks ago something like that er I 've been telling everybody about it and I 've had more response from non-members than I 've had from members for it . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've walked from Glasgow since noon . ‘ |
| 6 | I 've driven from California to Colorado — this is not an imaginary answer . |
| 7 | " I have gone from failure to failure , with France , alas , the loser . |
| 8 | I tell you , Minnie , I have fallen from favour of late and through no fault of my own , whereas my husband and son rest high in Mrs Browning 's estimation . |
| 9 | I am convinced that zander often shoal up or gather in great numbers when they are not hunting and to come across one of these occurrences as I have done from time to time is an unbelievably exciting experience . |
| 10 | From what I have gathered from talking to other business people they have also seen an increase in business . |
| 11 | Oh , Benedict , I have learned from Rose about your mother , and I see that my hair is the key , but — ’ |
| 12 | I have read from cover to cover with great interest , and now hasten to enclose my subscription . |
| 13 | I have thought from time to time that I would like to write and let you know how much those lessons meant to me — and now I am ! |
| 14 | On the other hand , I have needed from time to time to provide a certain amount of background , because the progress of a friendship can not be traced otherwise than by describing attendant circumstances . |
| 15 | Richmond I have known from childhood as an incomparably pretty town , castle keep , sloping irregular polygonal square , houses and big pubs grouped round like something in a model . |
| 16 | The improvement could allow some repayment of its long-term debt which has grown from £12.7m in 1986 to almost $69m at the end of last year . |
| 17 | for many years there 's been what 's called the ‘ Rate Equalization Subsidy ’ which has gone from areas of high rateable value to areas of low rateable value such as the middle of Lancashire — central Lancashire , and other parts of the country . |
| 18 | It is , I think , the logical conclusion of the line in Enlightenment thought which has run from Rousseau through Nietzsche and Sartre — the strand of truly anarchic individualist thinking which avoids the vulgar Nozickian ‘ libertarian ’ path of concentrating on the freedom of certain selected institutions such as commercial companies , and genuinely exalts only the freedom of the individual . |
| 19 | ONE railway which has progressed from strength to strength is the ‘ Coal Yard Branch Line ’ at Kidderminster Town Station on the Severn Valley Railway . |
| 20 | But actually I mean the stretch all-in-one which has metamorphosed from underwear into the essential t-shirt . |
| 21 | To conclude this chapter , we will look at another observational technique which has benefited from developments in audio and video technology , in which again the role of the observer is to be a detached onlooker , and in which detailed analyses of social activity are made . |
| 22 | She loved to move her money around , a process which had suffered from acceleration since the stock market collapse of the autumn of 1987 . |
| 23 | Hellenistic culture interfered with the parallel developments of individual cultures which had extended from China to Greece in previous centuries . |
| 24 | As she rose , her eyes , which had flicked from side to side , looked him in the face for the first time . |
| 25 | Dubcek faced calls from right-wing forces for his resignation as Assembly Chairman in view of his " practical support " for the opposition party Movement for a Democratic Slovakia ( HZDS ) , a group which had split from VPN in March 1991 [ see p. 38106 ] . |
| 26 | Leadership in science , which had moved from France to Germany in the late nineteenth century and from Germany to Great Britain early in the twentieth , now went to the United States , where immense resources had been developed during the war and were ready to be applied to more beneficial ends . |
| 27 | I accepted plate and cup , thanked her , and wondered how on earth , into a conversation which had ranged from hydroponics to knitting to the situation in the smaller countries of the Warsaw Pact to the best breed of wool for spinning tweed to the honey and the siting of the hives — how on earth I could decently introduce my queries about Ewen Mackay . |
| 28 | This effort had obviously failed by early April and the attention of both Labour and Likud switched to the five-member " Liberal " faction which had defected from Likud in late February [ see p. 37303 ] . |
| 29 | Some of the well known yachts which have emerged from West in recent years include the quarter-tonner Diamond , the Laurent Giles/Warwick Collins-designed Phantom , the Dubois one tonner Midnight Express , and Rapscallion of Russel a cruising version of Phantom . |
| 30 | He won the award for the regular habitat improvements made on his 1,680 acre property , where he and his keeper alan Smith four years ago gave up rearing pheasants , and built up wild birds , both pheasants and partridges , which have gone from strength to strength . |