Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been beaten , threatened with knee-capping , burned on the neck with a cigarette and invited to jump from the open door of the speeding vehicle during the journey to the quarry at Furnace on Loch Fyne . |
| 2 | Hence everything he built sprang from the fifteenth century and before . |
| 3 | Emma tried to run from the falling post , which weighed 120lb , but tripped and fell . |
| 4 | Francis might have more to tell of these towns — of their poor and their beggars — whom he tried to raise from the dull misery of want to accept and bless their lot by enjoying poverty and simplicity as great as theirs . |
| 5 | He naturally tried to recover from the steep dive before striking the ground . |
| 6 | Somehow his feelings became detached from the critical procedures ( not that he does not handle and assess his own work critically , which he does ) . |
| 7 | The cult of the martyr became detached from the general cult of the community 's dead members . |
| 8 | Unlike the UBR , the Community Charge sought to depart from the old rating system method of calculating local taxes . |
| 9 | The Scottish accent seemed to come from the other side of the crowd . |
| 10 | The only glimmer of light she could see at the moment seemed to come from the cheerful faces of the Rafferty children whenever they arrived on the Four Winds doorstep . |
| 11 | Even Daddy , wisest and kindest of men , seemed to suffer from the same delusion . |
| 12 | ‘ Each dealer knew well the cattle he 'd brought from the Irish villages . |
| 13 | Part of this problem seemed to stem from the fundamental assumption of such theories that everyone is , initially at least , conventional ( the opposite of the assumption of classical criminology ) . |
| 14 | A large suitcase lay on the bed , still full of the clothes he 'd taken from the other room . |
| 15 | Yet more sweet scent came wafting from the generous drifts of white alyssum that softened the open areas of stone chippings in Cheshire Pink shade — a surface that makes a practical alternative to the conventional lawn and can be defined and contained by brick edging . |
| 16 | He heard a howl which seemed to rise from the very bowels of the earth : long , cruel and haunting . |
| 17 | I did n't know about the woman and thought he 'd chipped from the left-hand side of the fairway to the right-hand side . |
| 18 | It happened to lead from the old barracks ( still used for housing a garrison ) up to the hill pass above the town . |
| 19 | It would appear that there was some increase in the marriage rates among those in their early twenties during the early 1920s , perhaps because of the delays caused by the First World War , and after 1934 , when the domestic economy began to revive from the worst excesses of the slump . |
| 20 | True enough , Morrissey disregarded his original bedsit self pity and began to write from the third person . |
| 21 | Unsuccessful at first , southern whaling began to flourish from the first decade of the 20th century , based initially at shore stations on South Georgia , later on pelagic fleets of factory ships and catchers . |
| 22 | And William began to run from the approaching cart , which was piled high with the bodies of the plague victims , and as he ran the streets became the familiar streets of his childhood and he knew that all the time he was running from the terrible cart he was getting closer and closer to the dark house by the railway embankment with its shuttered windows and its locked door , and that this was more terrible to him than anything in his history books . |
| 23 | The Labour Party objected strongly to Weizmann 's dismissal and threatened to withdraw from the year-old coalition unless the decision was abrogated . |
| 24 | Similarly , it is shrewd of him to play for the internationalist vote after a prolonged period of sullen Little Englandism during which Labour threatened to withdraw from the Common Market and called into question this country 's role within Nato . |
| 25 | Following the Rhineland-Palatinate election the CSU threatened to withdraw from the governing CDU/CSU/FDP coalition at federal level , but after a five-hour meeting on May 8 the parties agreed to work towards common policies on such issues as abortion and immigration , and to reassert their traditional values . |
| 26 | Extra-parliamentary agitation began to shift from the unemployed movement to opposition to fascism , despite the fact that the unemployed demonstrations continued to attract popular attention . |
| 27 | A terrible roaring sound began to emanate from the doomed building , and the bystanders were ordered to get well away . |
| 28 | In practice , the main background source that we sought to reject from the refluxed food signal was as a result of the large pool of activity in the stomach . |
| 29 | Snow had started to block all roads north on the morning we left , and as the last car slithered into the driveway of the cottage , with its white-faced traumatised occupants , Torridon became sealed from the outside world in a spectacular blizzard . |
| 30 | The heights he recorded varied from the tiny Shetland bull standing at only 97cm , up to the large , improved Holderness Shorthorn bull at an immense 152cm ( with a record-breaking 168cm in the ox ) . |