Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leith was n't embarrassed , just saddened that his love for her friend had brought him to this , as he revealed how , for fear of losing what little chance he had with Rosemary , he had kept quiet about his love when he 'd wanted to shout it from the rooftops . |
| 2 | Adventure Training put him in contact with me and after five days Bombardier Michael Goldsmith and a subaltern had come to see me from the Outer Hebrides with a view to offering an army vehicle . |
| 3 | They held him in a detention camp for three months , the Germans , and then the officers had come to see him from the SS . |
| 4 | With agitated fingers , his father felt in his shirt pocket for a cigarette , but he had forgotten to bring them from the kitchen . |
| 5 | In their initial — and nearly successful — attempt on the Mort Homme the Germans had sought to outflank it from the northeast , and now they tried a similar movement on Côte 304 from the west . |
| 6 | But she had wanted to give it from a position of power , of strength . |
| 7 | Those with turpentine , for instance , flew southwards if they had been trained in a loft with the smell of that compound blowing in from the north , and northwards if they had learned to smell it from the south . |
| 8 | In an exchange of letters with lay critics of the Royal Society of Chemistry-s award of a fellowship to the ‘ world-ranking scientist and academician ’ , J. S. Gow , the Society 's Secretary-General , had tried to distance it from the Romanian laureate . |
| 9 | She found herself talking about her father — the way he had brought her up alone , how he had tried to dissuade her from a racing career . |