Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mr Gilberthorpe 's said libel actions were made more affordable … even The Sun , which benefited from the latest High Court judgement it 's tim |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She rose from the furry white armchair which he was sure was her choice . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She knew from the frequent worried glances the other woman sent in her direction that Candy had seen through the act , but she 'd managed with some effort to avoid her , always finding some pretext to disappear in the opposite direction whenever Candy appeared on the horizon . |
| 20 | It was a surprise because the candidates who emerged from the famous political machine put together by his late father ( also Richard Daley ) did poorly . |
| 21 | My dear friend — if I may so describe him — the previous Foreign Secretary , who resigned from the right hon. Lady 's Government over Europe , was equally thrilled , although he did not express himself — he never does — in quite such colourful language . |
| 22 | Such thinking was behind the absurd argument that the police should be restrained from giving hot pursuit to stolen cars , and it also lay behind much of the nit-picking objection to the Bill that we heard from the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook . |
| 23 | We heard from the few local women who did attend how they took the law into their own hands and arranged regular supplies of contraceptives from the North . |
| 24 | We worked from the 11 short sections in each case , as in the analysis of Fig.1 . |
| 25 | It has gone in repaying the overseas debt that we inherited from the last Labour Government . |
| 26 | ‘ The controversy , ’ says Finlay , ‘ is over the current designation of Foinavon at 914 metres when we converted from the old imperial contour . |
| 27 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the lesson that we learned from the Single European Act was that , whenever there is an extension of Community competence , the institutions of the European Community seek to extend that competence ? |
| 28 | They came from the right hon. Member for Brent , North ( Sir R. Boyson ) ; from the hon. Member for Hendon , South ( Mr. Marshall ) ; from the hon. Member for Lancaster ( Dame E. |
| 29 | From the 1960s to the 1980s , they came from the impoverished north-eastern states — Paraiba , Pernambuco , Bahia and Minas Gerais — to find shelter , food and livelihood in a city that has expelled them . |
| 30 | The raising of a ‘ grain curtain ’ is threatening the economic stability of those countries which have lost the protection they enjoyed from the former Soviet empire . |