Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] from [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any issues affecting the relations of the Serbs with the imperial authorities or with their Muslim landlords and neighbours had to be dealt with by the Muslim authorities , most of whom operated from the cosmopolitan cities . |
| 2 | After all as I tramped around the hillside barns in the frosty air I was working up a better appetite for my turkey than all the millions lying in bed or slumped by the fire ; and this was aided by the innumerable aperitifs I received from the hospitable farmers . |
| 3 | I was beginning to feel sleepy , and very cold ; the temperature seemed to have gone down , and I was shivering even while I sweated from the furnace-like emanations of the curry . |
| 4 | One was a very nice garment made out of a kind of silk which Mother and I bought from the secondhand clothes lady who ran a stall in Barnard Castle . |
| 5 | At one point I traversed from the red bolts ( off route ) to the green bolts ( also off route ) without finding the silver bolts I was supposed to be on . |
| 6 | ‘ In the second week , I knew what I wanted from the allowed foods , my body told me what I needed . |
| 7 | Agatha stepped closer , covering her head with her hood against the drops of rain which dripped from the overhanging branches of the oak tree . |
| 8 | There was a happy burble of voices which came from a few children discussing some design they were doing . |
| 9 | Hotels which were in the first days of making order , and factories which came from the old Factories Act . |
| 10 | Table 18 , below , shows the percentages of all defective items which suffered from the specific types of damage noted . |
| 11 | She picked one , and held it to her face , and in the lights which shone from the long windows of the house , Edouard saw that the colour of the flower , that rich deep red shot through with gold , was the colour of her hair . |
| 12 | Carers ranked hospitalization as more important than other groups , and advocates had a rank ordering of issues which differed from the other groups , including clients . |
| 13 | The walls were lime-washed to keep off insects , and the hams which hung from the blackened beams gave off a sweet crisp smell which made Cranston smack his lips . |
| 14 | was the city of winds which blew from the four points , the eight quarters |
| 15 | There were , however , three outstanding concerns which emerged from the additional comments to the question . |
| 16 | American railway architects in this period seem to have been fascinated by the notion of the integration of the station offices with the train-shed , for many of the stations which emerged from the grander developments of the 1850s and 1860s consisted of side buildings with the trains running into the interior through grand portals . |
| 17 | In effect the proposal for future review which emerged from the 1983–84 visits anticipated what the Polytechnic achieved through accreditation by the Council from 1 April 1988 . |
| 18 | The messages about the importance of using and sharing information were the same as those which emerged from the international comparisons of the NEDC and from the explanations of the work of TECs . |
| 19 | To take just one more example , the central urban township of Sheffield accounted for only one-twentieth of the 22,370-acre parish which stretched from the industrial villages of Attercliffe and Darnall in the east to isolated farms in the west . |
| 20 | Her action against the school ( the first defendants ) failed but she recovered from the second defendants . |
| 21 | She realised from the quizzical looks that met this further information that she had made matters worse rather than better . |
| 22 | But as she gazed from the French windows on the tangle of weeds outside , and the now dense greenery of Switham Thicket , a plea formed in her mind as she thought of Lady Merchiston upstairs , in conference with her man of business . |
| 23 | Melanie opened her eyes and saw thorns among roses , as if she woke from a hundred years ' night , la belle au bois dormante , imprisoned in a century 's steadily burgeoning garden . |
| 24 | Most puzzling was that the worse it got , the more people bought it , and — horror of horrors — it was cheerfully read in large numbers by the very people who suffered from the hackneyed prejudices and stereotypes it dispensed — notably blacks , gays and women . |
| 25 | The popes had to come to terms with the nobles and those who came from the noble families of the city naturally built up their own families and factions in order to survive . |
| 26 | The new Dunbar lifeboat , the Waveney-class Thomas James King , was on station in Torness Harbour to greet Spirit of Scotland when she returned from the Tall Ships Race to Norway ( see back page ) . |
| 27 | We have been promised a visit to another great showpiece in Peking — the Summer Palace built by the Dowager Empress last century from money she misappropriated from the naval funds ( so they tell us ) . |
| 28 | Normally , although his massive body dwarfed her own , he showed her consideration in his bed , but she knew from the rare occasions when it had happened before that drinking heavily coarsened his sexual appetites . |
| 29 | It had the same feel to it that she knew from the long hours she 'd spent experiencing the mass-market romantic slush that Madreidetic packed into their holos . |
| 30 | She did not ring for a nurse because she did n't want to have to seem cheerful and she remembered from the two births of her live children , which had gone well , that this was a rule in hospitals . |