Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb past] [pron] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lindsay Kemp : ‘ David Bowie struck me from the very beginning as being very versatile and very ‘ up-front ’ and not in the least bit naîve . |
| 2 | French President François Mitterrand dissociated himself from the statement because of a passage which , praising Soviet moves to democracy and " economic liberty " , said that market economies should be created in the Soviet republics . |
| 3 | Jane Brompton called me from the Betty Ford clinic last night and it 's absolutely 100% sure . |
| 4 | Mr. Brakspear dissociated himself from the report saying ‘ the error in truth having arisen from the fact that they ( he and Mr. Fryer ) were the only two who went round the links with reporters ’ . |
| 5 | Mr. Ennals got one from the Prime Minister 's son during his visit here on behalf of the British Government . |
| 6 | When Mr Heath sacked him from the Shadow Cabinet in 1968 after he had paraphrased Virgil 's Aeneid and with foreboding claimed to see ‘ the River Tiber foaming with much blood ’ he began a journey into the wilderness . |
| 7 | So the Old Parsonage remained until the American Mr Stucley bought it from the church in the 1930s , thereafter leaving it to the National Trust . |
| 8 | Adele Duncan raised herself from the pillows . |
| 9 | Several Conservative MPs repudiated the Group and Mrs Thatcher dissociated herself from the critical remarks . |
| 10 | The contents of the paper apparently horrified some ministers and , under some pressure , Mrs Thatcher withdrew it from the Cabinet agenda . |
| 11 | As Mrs Burrows took him from the hall she said to Eva " You 'd better finish the service " . |
| 12 | The March plenum expelled him from the MPRP and withdrew all his titles . |
| 13 | The Brydges family had owned the property since 1428 , when their ancestor Symon de Brugge bought it from the two daughters and co-heiresses of Richard de Ley . |
| 14 | When he realized that he was unlikely to receive satisfaction on either score , de Gaulle distanced himself from the negotiations by flying to Brazzaville in Central Africa . |
| 15 | Captain Meredith observed her from the open door , as did Miss Jarman . |
| 16 | And so it was that Osman Abdelal took me from the gas station and up to a small Arab village called Mazraa , clustered round the ruins of an old Roman aqueduct . |
| 17 | " Now in 1849 both companies supplied virtually the same water … the Lambeth Company got theirs from the Thames close to the Hungerford Bridge ; the Southwark and Vauxhall Company got theirs at Battersea-fields . |
| 18 | Consecrated in Winchester by the legate Henry of Blois [ q.v. ] on 20 June , Bishop William excused himself from the consecration of Fitzherbert in late September because of difficulties in his bishopric , where Cumin was maintaining his position by force and guile . |
| 19 | TWO years to the day after Chernobyl blew up , Valeri Legasov hanged himself from the balustrade in the stairwell of his Moscow house . |
| 20 | ( In 1940 there were only four entries so it was cancelled ) , but presumably this arrangement was unsatisfactory for in 1952 John Chalcraft bought it from the Club for £15 . |