Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] from a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Another strange comment I once heard from a doctor was that transsexuals were obsessed by sex , which was great news to us , especially to me , who lives like a monk . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ At least I 've seen more of the town where I live than I ever saw from a carriage or on horseback . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The funny thing is , I certainly came from a culture that did n't pursue money . |
| 4 | ‘ I accidentally slipped from a fountain and was unfortunately sick into a basin , ’ Robyn replied coolly . |
| 5 | The strong showing of the two environmental parties — the Greens and Ecology Generation — who clearly benefited from a haemorrhage of votes from the socialists , must have convinced the President that the old party pulled together by him in 1971 and still led by its familiar herd of ‘ pink elephants ’ was doomed . |
| 6 | Potatoes , car any anything they had , butter and milk , you never came from a farm in the old days without something in your hand . |
| 7 | OUTDOOR pig-keeping in Denmark is expanding , but is unlikely to pose much of a threat to the UK , according to Nick Manderfield , of Breckland Farms , who recently returned from a study tour . |
| 8 | We recently returned from a holiday in Barbados where we successfully completed the PADI certification for Open Water Diver . |
| 9 | Fistulas either presented early ( n=13 ) , in which case they usually resulted from a breakdown of an ileoanal anastomosis or a suture line deshiscence in the pouch to the abdominal wall , perineum , or vagina ( two cases that were later proved to have Crohn 's disease ) . |
| 10 | But it also rallied from a low of 2,851.0 to close just 2.8 down on the day at 2,861.1 , with just over 700 million shares changing hands . |
| 11 | To rub it in he then scored from a free-kick ( which he was allowed to take a second time ! ) . |
| 12 | He almost died from a combination of dysentery , malaria , septic sores , and a head wound , and attributed his unexpected recovery to reciting Shakespeare 's plays , several of which he knew by heart . |