Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] from [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 11 To there friends who knew her , her self-assertion was born from nothing but a necessary and confident determination to succeed in an area where women rarely rose to prominence . |
| 2 | He 'd send them then , he every dock was numbered from one to hundred and thirty and he 'd say righto , number one so and so , number five so and so and of course when they come back to the pool , they 'd go on the end of the rota . |
| 3 | The group was built from nothing by Gedge and brilliantly nurtured without the sickening prevarication involved in most of pop 's success stories . |
| 4 | The limitation of time for suit was increased from one to two years . |
| 5 | At school there was an iniquitous system known as House Order , according to which all the girls in one house were graded from one to , say , thirty-six , the criterion being the individual 's worth to the community . |