Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv prt] from the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bolton-born Bannister , who dwarfs influential team-mate Alton Byrd by 19 inches , is so huge he gets all his clothes and shoes shipped in from the States by mail order . |
| 2 | All but one of the 12 videos ( ‘ Stop Me ’ ) are so dull one requires tentative electric shocks to the eyelids to keep awake , while five ( ‘ What Difference ’ , ‘ Heaven Knows ’ , ‘ Shoplifters ’ , ‘ Boy ’ and ‘ Sheila ’ ) are n't even proper videos at all , just Top Of The Pops appearances dusted down from the BBC archives . |
| 3 | William Shirer , whose CBS broadcasts went out from the Rundfunkhaus , noted in his diary that Goebbels 's Ministry of Propaganda thought the drawling nasal voice ‘ wholly unfit for broadcasting ’ . |
| 4 | Springhill now is much the same as it was in 1953 when itwas handed over from the RAF . |
| 5 | Although the sums remitted back from the US were much lower than expected , and continuing high taxation rates caused a drain on domestic box office receipts , no attempt was made to rein in film budgets . |
| 6 | One of the top ANC men came back from the Dar Es Salaam talks and told us , ‘ I am more than ever convinced that violence is not the way . |
| 7 | Swirls of clouds billowed down from the Towers and the glaciers hung vertically , suspended like gigantic icicles , while flocks of birds scattered and spun before them , helpless in the wild turbulence . |