Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] from [noun sg] [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 have gone from failure to failure , with France , alas , the loser . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | From what I have gathered from talking to other business people they have also seen an increase in business . |
| 8 | I have read from cover to cover with great interest , and now hasten to enclose my subscription . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ONE railway which has progressed from strength to strength is the ‘ Coal Yard Branch Line ’ at Kidderminster Town Station on the Severn Valley Railway . |
| 13 | But actually I mean the stretch all-in-one which has metamorphosed from underwear into the essential t-shirt . |
| 14 | She loved to move her money around , a process which had suffered from acceleration since the stock market collapse of the autumn of 1987 . |
| 15 | As she rose , her eyes , which had flicked from side to side , looked him in the face for the first time . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Eurocommunism is the generic name given to the political strategies and beliefs of those Western European communist parties which have broken from alliance with the Soviet Union and repudiated the Leninist model of socialism both as it has turned out in practice and as envisaged in ideal terms ( Boggs and Plotke , 1980 ; Carillo , 1977 ; Claudin , 1979 ) . |
| 20 | In addition , in some systems which have operated from time to time in the UK and elsewhere , there is a procedure whereby people are asked attitude questions about the product before the show and after it , and given the opportunity to select the test product ( from a list ) as a prize or gift . |
| 21 | Indeed , they are keen to advertise the fact by stamping their personalities on their home , something which is evidenced by looking at homes in Britain which have passed from public to private ownership . |
| 22 | The symptoms she endured varied from month to month , worsening or improving according to the circumstances of her life at the time . |
| 23 | One thing she 'd learned from Ace in the short time they 'd been together was to be quick on her feet . |
| 24 | She had gone from happiness to misery and back again in what seemed no more than hours , and the speed of the changes had left her with a sense of unreality that she found impossible to shake off . |
| 25 | She had borrowed a small tape recorder from Jarvis and was going to record her own playing , a critical exercise that she had postponed from day to day . |
| 26 | Remember , all her life she had wandered from place to place , sleeping in a tent or under the stars . |
| 27 | Ever since she had learned from Rose of his mother 's red hair , she had fondly permitted her idle daydream , her secret wishes , to grow and flower as if indeed they existed . |
| 28 | Between these , gold-dark , dark-gold and violent pink , lay Lady Rose Martindale , solid but not fat or for in less , indeed very woman-shaped , in pink-and-brown striped silk bathing suit , with gold hair spattered softly over the brown flesh of her shoulders and whitish sand speckled on the gleam of her thighs where she had rolled from side to side . |
| 29 | None of the reformed drinkers ( five with biopsy proven cirrhosis ) , who had abstained from alcohol for at least two months had raised values . |
| 30 | Although this represented a success for the government , it made more unlikely any early surrender by cartel leader Pablo Escobar Gaviria , who had escaped from prison in July [ see p. 39001 ] . |