Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] from a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd heard from a sceptic that there were only six basic shots in surfing photography and everything else was just window dressing . |
| 2 | The only touch I was remotely pleased with was an elegant , cane-handled parasol I 'd borrowed from a colleague . |
| 3 | If it was like seeing a long lost friend again after twenty-seven years , Darby O'Gill was comfortingly predictable with touches of the old sparkle but we had lost a lot of common ground as I had moved from a place of romance and innocence through a world of cynicism and calculated sophistication . |
| 4 | This raucous noise only seemed to emphasize the ominous silence of the island and reminded me of a story I had heard from a traveller who claimed to have sailed the Western Ocean and come across islands inhabited by ghosts of dead sailors . |
| 5 | Not until I was out in the open countryside again , reassured by the songs of the birds and the murmur of streams did I feel that I had emerged from a dream and rejoined the familiar twentieth century . |
| 6 | I slipped into the great four-poster bed , whispered a few French endearments I had learnt from a wench and set to with a will . |
| 7 | " I 've come from a bit farther than Chelsea tonight , " |
| 8 | ‘ Well , master , ’ I neighed , ‘ I 've come from a country on the other side of the world . |
| 9 | I 've come from a village background actually , and homelessness was n't a major problem in our villages because a lot of these sorts of characters somehow were adopted by the community . |
| 10 | The authors he found most helpful in this ‘ interim ’ period were all mystics , or figures who emphasized spirit over matter — MacDonald , William Ralph Inge , Jacob Boehme , whose quasi-theosophical , semi-astrological De Signatura Rerum ( The Signatures of Things ) gave him ‘ about the biggest shaking up I 've got from a book , since I first read Phantastes ’ . |
| 11 | I have selected from a wealth of alternatives : |
| 12 | I have been constantly told what a fine man he was and I regret not being able to experience and appreciate his qualities first-hand as I have grown from a child to an adult . |
| 13 | The one thing I have bought from a tin of biscuits . |
| 14 | She has recovered from a chest infection which affected her last week after two solid days of filming left her exhausted . |
| 15 | She 'd died from a blow to her neck . |
| 16 | So I walked up to her , looked into her eyes , and close to she was as beautiful and warm as she 'd seemed from a distance . |
| 17 | And yet because you 've come from a P A Y E background , you feel you 've got to get up in the morning , and go to work . |
| 18 | Alan was in London talking business with his agent , Audrey Ellison , when she just happened to mention a letter she had received from a friend in Budapest about a young pianist who was about to be hauled into the Hungarian army to do his national service . |
| 19 | Indoors she wore a long black pinafore-like garment , sleeveless and reaching almost to the ground , which she had made from a cotton material used later during the war for black-out curtains and called , I think , sateen . |
| 20 | I believed her on both counts , especially when she visited me for a weekend and gave me a bottle of ‘ Denim ’ aftershave which she had shoplifted from a Chemist in mid Wales . |
| 21 | The same feeling when , as a girl , she had woken from a nightmare , and sat in the dark , not sure if she was really awake ; really alone . |
| 22 | Mrs Dibble experienced Lena 's generosity when the ribber attachment she had bought from a mail order company would not work on her machine . |
| 23 | She moved along the counter to where , beneath it , on a narrow table , there stood a number of trays and , taking up the brass hammer , she broke the edge of the toffee and put four pieces into a newspaper cone that she had taken from a number stacked up by the side of the tray . |
| 24 | Sister Aloysius was wiping the hand now with a piece of rough linen she had taken from a pocket in her habit . |
| 25 | If your complaint is about the actual treatment you have received from a doctor or dentist — a clinical complaint — the officer may refer it to the Regional Medical Officer for you . |
| 26 | The purpose of making notes is primarily to set out , in a shortened but logical form , information that you have gathered from a variety of sources on a particular topic so that it can be used for revision purposes and as an aid to memory . |
| 27 | She 's gone from a Scouse-hold to a household name , co-starring in the latest run of the hit TV show The Comedians . |
| 28 | Again , we had suffered from a lack of screens to back the tables for display purposes and privacy . |
| 29 | In the British system of local government finance , with the wonderful inimitable reforms of the present government , er we have gone from a situation in which er the central government financed about , between forty five and fifty percent of local expenditure to a situation where the central government finances about eighty five percent , I think between eighty five and ninety percent of local spending . |
| 30 | We have moved from a culture largely unchanged from nationalisation to one in which the need for change is accepted and many staff are now use TOP principles automatically , |