Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ben Bellaser was best man , of course , ‘ … and had first kiss of the fair bride I helped to save from the grave ’ . |
| 2 | I decided to approach from the front , to get the best view of the house . |
| 3 | She had tears in her eyes as she tried to recover from the laughter . |
| 4 | If I were to die , she thought , there is nobody to find me , perhaps for days and weeks , for we do not have visitors , and my mother would die too , of fright or starvation or a broken limb , after her voice gave out in screaming , and she tried to struggle from the bed . |
| 5 | With a little cry of distress she turned to flee from the room , but got no further than a couple of steps when Luke caught her . |
| 6 | She began to rake from the front of the house towards the road , then realized she had nothing in which to put the leaves . |
| 7 | She began to divert from the path , tracing a semicircular route round the bonnet of the car . |
| 8 | She struggled to rise from the couch . |
| 9 | After making several trips to Headquarters in Lincoln 's Inn and each time letting the bus take her on to Aldgate East , she managed to resign from the movement . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , she had to withdraw from the Symposium , feeling that the effort was too much considering the work that she still required to do on her own Flora . |
| 11 | The fact that she had implied that she intended to withdraw from the arrangement as soon as it was convenient did not matter , Jehan thought , unless Alexei 's character was to provide the excuse … |
| 12 | The day after we tried to telephone from the post office but could not get through to Alassio . |
| 13 | We had to go from the School to the School for two years and back to the School again , and er finally we 'd go to the Academy . |
| 14 | At last they decided to withdraw from the square and were on the point of departure when they were suddenly surrounded by a group of tough-looking soldiers , helmeted and armed . |
| 15 | Nonetheless , the absence of labourers is more apparent than real : the local practice of not assessing goods of less value than £2 did not mean that any personal property owned by people of the labouring sort was generally ignored , for a good many men later taxed on wages owned goods worth anything up to £10 in 1522 , which ( unless perhaps having disposed of , say , a beast or two ) they managed to conceal from the taxman and convince him that they had nothing but the minimum in wages . |
| 16 | this method was essential as the vast majority of targets had Commonwealth forces bounded on each side , ready to pounce on the bandits as they attempted to flee from the air attacks . |
| 17 | Disabled people would have to buy a transmitter , which costs £19.95 , if they wanted to benefit from the scheme . |
| 18 | They were doing in that shop exactly what they intended to do and in all probability , what they intended to do from the moment they got up that morning . |
| 19 | Next month he planned to retire from the army , but says he could n't resist this call to duty . |
| 20 | Although he insisted that he had done nothing remiss — he admitted receiving a 5,000,000 yen loan from an associate of the firm in 1989 but claimed to have repaid the money — he agreed to resign from the party ( but not from the Upper House ) for having caused embarrassment to the SDPJ . |
| 21 | Suddenly it occurred to Alexei that in the event that he failed to return from the embassy the question of solemnising the marriage would not arise , and he wondered again how far he could trust Burun . |
| 22 | That night , Seb had so much to drink that when he tried to rise from the ground beside the camp-fire to return home his legs felt like rubber and he sat down again unexpectedly . |
| 23 | He was restrained as he tried to rush from the dock before the judge left the court . |
| 24 | He was hurt as he tried to transfer from the Tayjack rig to the tug Torbay Endeavour off the coast of Sunderland . |
| 25 | ‘ They sent him to Australia for life , because he tried to escape from the prison-ship . ’ |
| 26 | The full impact of it seemed to come from the roof , and was so strong that she jerked up in bed . |
| 27 | It seemed to come from the Market Cross . |
| 28 | It was a movement so subtle that it seemed to occur from the corner of her eye . |
| 29 | He began to realize from the nature of these sites how the leys could have been constructed . |
| 30 | As he was speaking , he began to walk from the kitchen into the sitting room . |