Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] from [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sam recovered in the third set from 1–3 to lead 5–4 , but she was unable to close out the match against a tough opponent who rarely deviated from her game plan of staying back and slugging it out from the baseline . |
| 2 | On Joseph Freame 's death in 1770 , the Barclay interest in the bank continued through his sister Priscilla 's two sons by David Barclay , David and John , who progressively withdrew from their father 's linens trade because of the American war , which they strongly opposed . |
| 3 | This was the year she finally emerged from her shell to win every round in a public relations battle she was determined should go her way . |
| 4 | Col James Bradshaw said Alan Jackson , who mysteriously vanished from his shop in Barnard Castle town centre , had given him three cheques but all had bounced . |
| 5 | POLICE are looking for an antiques dealer who mysteriously vanished from his Barnard Castle home last month . |
| 6 | However thick the dust on your bookshelves may be you will either be reassured that you still remember a great deal of what you originally learnt from your training and former jobs , or you will be seized by momentary panic at how much you have forgotten . |
| 7 | She simply sipped from her glass and stroked her scalp and watched the murky night . |
| 8 | She then rose from her seat and bowed , leaving Finchingfield 's fond aunt seething . |
| 9 | and eventually after some searching they nominated someone who then resigned from her post not Clare |
| 10 | At the same time , she never swayed from her view that Jane 's photography had great artistic integrity and supported her within the company whatever the criticism . |
| 11 | I was just about to say something like " What 's the idea of all those tricks you play on me ? " when I took my first look at the dog and everything else fled from my mind . |
| 12 | They also departed from their rubber-stamp tradition in a vote on the controversial Three Gorges dam project on the Yangtze river . |
| 13 | They also removed from his house a large amount of material , including copies of petitions signed by Belgrade intellectuals , copies of the ‘ Petition of the 2,011 ’ , and various letters . |
| 14 | It gave him a qualm to realise that a large part of his need to see her again stemmed from her usefulness to him as a go between . |
| 15 | He rarely heard from his mother , but he rang her each Christmas morning , wherever he was , and on her birthday , and he sent her maybe a dozen postcards a year . |
| 16 | ‘ So I see , ’ she muttered , waiting while he gently removed from his neck the clinging arms of a laughing woman who had plastered herself to his front . |
| 17 | The reference section he already knew from his work on local history — a long , narrow room , darker than the rest of the library by reason of the heaviness of the books and their respectable bindings . |
| 18 | He still smarted from his treatment at the military prison , but realised that he must try to control his violent nature if he was to amount to anything . |
| 19 | Shutting his eyes , he stopped and was there the one he always remembered from his childhood polish , dust , though not so much now as the smell of books . |
| 20 | The Empire Crusade continued in existence ( indeed its symbol still decorates the front page of the Daily Express ) , but like many of Beaverbrook 's enterprises , it quickly faded from his attention and that of the country . |
| 21 | At the sixth congress ( 1986 ) he formally resigned from his party posts , continuing as an " adviser " to the central committee . |
| 22 | There were occasional stark outcrops of rock and dark pools like tiny versions of the lochans he dimly remembered from his homesite . |
| 23 | To them , an approach to their daughter when she was still in mourning was ‘ indelicate ’ , a word he now heard from his mother . |
| 24 | A secret that , like you , he even kept from his partner . |
| 25 | He then took from his pocket a filthy blue handkerchief , reversing it so that his small audience could examine both sides . |
| 26 | He then resigned from his employment in accordance with the terms of his employment contract and brought an action against his former employers relating to commission payments . |
| 27 | The husband , feeling deprived of the care he previously had from his wife , and sometimes carrying her projected envy , is left even more envious than he otherwise would be . |
| 28 | ‘ I walked on the paint , ’ Carrie said , but his face was almost purple by now and the veins stood out on his forehead as he half rose from his chair . |
| 29 | He half rose from his seat but at that point the waiter arrived with a coffee Sandison had forgotten he had ordered . |
| 30 | He recently retired from his appointment as Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire after 25 years . |