Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] from the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have ended up with my children in a Women 's Hostel , still black and blue after the battering I got from the drunken unfaithful bully I was stupid enough to marry . |
| 2 | It 's a concept I adapted from the American presidential campaigns . |
| 3 | This Pool who is not Poole can not be worse than the last idiot I saw from the same backward profession : he was extremely fortunate that I did not send the details of his impertinences to the Medical Association or whatever it is called . |
| 4 | If the hon. Lady or Puffin Books can show that the use of the puffin symbol contravenes the text that I quoted from the 1986 voluntary agreement , without being bound by court procedures and legal niceties and technicalities , we have a system deliberately designed to be sufficiently flexible to allow action to be taken and new barriers which will not be allowed to be broken . |
| 5 | Most of them came from the single European act . |
| 6 | Using the wider kin group as the basis for organizing social and economic life may not be characteristic of contemporary Britain , but some of the groups who have migrated to this country since the Second World War have brought with them , and retained , a pattern of kin relationships which differs from the white British norm and which in some cases includes a preference for cousin marriage . |
| 7 | Before examining the study 's findings in some depth , it is interesting to report on some of the results which arose from the preliminary postal survey . |
| 8 | And if some of these assumptions were harsh in their operation they were tempered by a humanitarianism which stemmed from the same eighteenth-century roots . |
| 9 | This is , for instance , why sensible Czech politicians support the idea which came from the Slovak National Council that the federation should be based on two strong national republics which will delegate some powers up to the federal government and not vice-versa . |
| 10 | The conference also provided an opportunity for Australia and Fiji to repair the rift in their bilateral relations which dated from the two military coups in Fiji in 1987 . |
| 11 | As you coil the ropes you can soak up the panoramic landscape which stretches from the lush green valleys towards Leek and the Potteries , across to the Roaches and northwards to the wild moors of Axe Edge . |
| 12 | Companies have other attractions besides the limitation of members ' liability , most of which flow from the separate legal personality with which corporations are endowed under English law . |
| 13 | But it is a citizen of London who has left us the most elaborate rhapsody which survives from the central Middle Ages on any of the European cities of the day , and William FitzStephen 's glowing vision of the London in which his hero , archbishop Thomas Becket , was born , is a startling reminder that Londoners took fully as much pride in their city as did the Italians of their day — just as the fact that the citizens adopted Thomas Becket as their patron saint reminds us that he was martyred for showing excessive resistance to the king . |
| 14 | Mr Gilberthorpe 's said libel actions were made more affordable … even The Sun , which benefited from the latest High Court judgement it 's tim |
| 15 | Most of the characterization is effected by the recitative , which varies from the driest quick quasi-parlando — Monteverdi sometimes writes only a single sustained note to carry eight or nine syllables — to actual melody , with every nuance between and naturally plenty of scope for his stile concitato . |
| 16 | There are several types of capital ; a version of Ionic as in 82 and 83 and a Doric ( or Tuscan ) which developed from the early bulbous form ( VII ) to a more sophisticated version ( VIII ) . |
| 17 | The Russian conquest of northern Eurasia , which developed from the north-eastward territorial expansion of Novgorod and then Moscow , reached beyond the Urals into Asia only some sixty years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico , and twenty years before the first french and English colonies were founded in North America . |
| 18 | Among the known examples there is a marked variation in size , which ranges from the large many-roomed complex located close to the River Rib at Braughing , down to the partly excavated building discovered at the rear of one of the frontage plots at Neatham . |
| 19 | More than that : he had himself sprung from the upper working class and naturally despised as unclean the lower working class : his life was made a misery by their proximity , and he longed for them to be evicted or murder each other in one of their not infrequent rows . |
| 20 | Clearly , however , where the overall number of speakers is small as it is in many sociolinguistic surveys , the number of higher-status speakers turning up in a random selection procedure which samples from the entire urban area will be correspondingly small . |
| 21 | It also completed the long task of national reconciliation , burying by example the myth which dates from the 1946-49 Civil War , that right and left can never co-operate . |
| 22 | The watch is British made except for the movement which comes from the best Swiss supplier . |
| 23 | Serious competitors to the CPSU included : Democratic Russia , a group organized around radical deputies in the Russian Federation parliament ; Soyuz ( Union ) , a group based on a bloc of both communist and non-communist conservative deputies in the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies and the USSR Supreme Soviet ; Democratic Reform Movement ( DRM ) , established by Shevardnadze , Aleksander Yakovlev and other CPSU dissidents on July 1 , 1991 ; Democratic Party of Communists of Russia established in July 1991 , headed by Aleksander Rutskoi , the Vice-President of the Russian Federation , which split from the conservative Russian Communist Party ; Russian Communist Party established in April 1990 , in theory the RFSFR section of the CPSU but in practice a hardline outpost of organized opposition to Gorbachev and the radical forces . |
| 24 | She rose from the furry white armchair which he was sure was her choice . |
| 25 | Despite constructing one of their most positive displays for some time they lost to a French team who profited from the only genuine opportunities they created . |
| 26 | James II 's marriage to Mary of Gueldres had the attraction of providing him with a queen who came from the great artillery-making centre of northern Europe . |
| 27 | I was married to Bernard Parkin for fifteen years , a man who came from the lower middle class , but identified quite violently , for a number of years , with the workers . |
| 28 | She pinned her thoughts on Rosemary , her friend and neighbour from across the corridor , who came from the same sizeable Dorset village that she did . |
| 29 | At one and the same time , you benefit from the best available local plans tailored to suit your company 's needs and the backing of an experienced and reliable international Network , for a cost-benefit ratio that may well astound you . |
| 30 | She watched from the unlit half-landing window as Maurice climbed into the Mercedes , its rear lights blurred and twin exhausts clouding in the misty air . |