Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] from a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a kid at Oldham , I took over from a long-established fixture in the side at Boundary Park , Peter McDonald , and had most of my mistakes during games forgiven because I was so young . |
| 2 | She woke slowly from a vague dream as an errant breeze drifted over her face , coming to rest on her mouth . |
| 3 | Christina wanted to remind him that he had only helped with the backing and that the real work had been done by Stephen and her , but she kept quiet and instead watched Jean Reece-Carlton as she turned away from a gloating Robert in disgust , muttering something under her breath . |
| 4 | She arrived home from a foreign holiday yesterday considerably richer than when she left . |
| 5 | They built up from a working |
| 6 | The most pessimistic viewpoint is that the brains of different groups of mammals have very little in common because they evolved separately from a common ancestral form in which the brain was relatively formless , lacking the distinctive sub-divisions that can be identified in the brains of modern mammals . |
| 7 | Peter McBride , who has two young children , was hit in the back as he sprinted away from a Scots Guards patrol in Belfast 's republican New Lodge area . |
| 8 | His health was poor , for he suffered constantly from a malarial type disease , quartan ague , which left him feverish and weak . |
| 9 | He came back from a serious back injury last season , but was injured again at the weekend . |
| 10 | The coroner said Michael 's head hit the chair and he died instantly from a fractured skull . |
| 11 | ‘ He ran well from a bad draw when beaten about four lengths at Redcar recently and I am hoping to run him in the Portland Handicap at Doncaster . ’ |
| 12 | And then Danny McCann could have scored a second for Fairmile in the dying moments , but he shot over from a good position . |