Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also lived there from time to time many years ago . |
| 2 | Reflecting how Laura herself invariably shied away from mention of her gifts , I was left with my thoughts . |
| 3 | Cash 's workers did not have to go out to the sound of the factory bell or whistle , but simply went upstairs from home to workshop , and thus kept a little of the independence they prized . |
| 4 | While the exact size of this latter group is unclear , Peter Clark has estimated that as many as one fifth of the population of Kent regularly stayed away from church in the later sixteenth century , and the situation may well have been worse in the peripheral ‘ dark corners of the land ’ to the north and west . |
| 5 | Although energetic and successful in all school activities , Ernest twice ran away from home before joining the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter in 1917 . |
| 6 | The very next sentence : ‘ Although energetic and successful in all school activities , Ernest twice ran away from home before joining the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter in 1917 ’ departs from this pattern . |
| 7 | Yes , their fortune almost certainly came mainly from construction in the oil-rich sheikdoms of the Gulf . |