Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the year , Britain seemed much revived from the black days of the IMF crisis twelve months earlier . |
| 2 | Maggie asked Ethel who 'd just returned from the top level . |
| 3 | I saw the biggest , steepest cylinders of water I 'd ever seen from the relative sanctuary of the beach , and Pottz finally landed the world title . |
| 4 | As a consequence the moral and legal boundaries of liberal economics , at first fluid , became more settled from the 1840 s when a discourse of reform and moral improvement framed economic and Benthamite languages with a moralised and rationalised social commitment . |
| 5 | He was always immaculately presented , exuding self-confidence and charm , and appeared totally detached from the horrific nature of his crimes , which he believed were a ‘ mission ’ he had to perform . |
| 6 | The study now reported began with the author recognising from an examination of the name ‘ Forsey ’ that although the second syllable had obviously developed from the Anglo-Saxon haeg ( with the noun prefix ge ) and the Middle English hei/hey , meaning enclosure , it seemed unlikely that the first syllables fors and furs were descended from the same root word , and the fact that Dr Reaney had cited widely separated counties for their ( rather late ) emergence was a further slight pointer . |
| 7 | Not only the Siberian natives , who had long suffered from the systematic cruelty and exploitation of the invading white men ( see James Forsyth 's account in Chapter 4 ) , but also the ‘ old inhabitants ’ ( starozhily ) , Russian peasants , citizens and merchants fell victim of their virtual reign of terror . |
| 8 | Should anyone be foolish enough to don space armour and climb through the airlock , nothing whatever would be strictly visible — save for what had already come from the ordinary universe . |
| 9 | What if Christ had not risen from the dead , and religion was mere hocus-pocus ? |
| 10 | If enthusiasts had not travelled from the Private Greens , the Provincial Bowling Association and especially , the Northern Ireland Bowling Association there would have been a sepulchral atmosphere about the whole thing . |
| 11 | Therefore , if there is full ex post settling up , the manager is likely to end up worse off than if he had not deviated from the accepted behaviour . |
| 12 | True , the Armenians of Beirut have collected some macabre , terrible old photographs that might — had they been studied with more care by the shell-shocked peoples who had just emerged from the First World War — have served as a warning , the shape of things to come . |
| 13 | They were country people in a sense that Melanie was not , although she had just come from the green fields and they might have lived in London all their lives . |
| 14 | It was interesting that Fishwick Mona had just returned from the Great Yorkshire Show where she had stood third in a strong yearling heifer class . |
| 15 | Her father had just returned from the public house , and was at his most sensitive to the shame brought upon his noble name by Tess . |
| 16 | The great double doors of the palace had been smashed inwards by a hammerblow from an American Civil War vintage sixty-five pounder naval gun , which the rebels had somehow recovered from the sunken Atlanta , transporting it on an ox-drawn cart since the wheels were missing from its carriage axles . |
| 17 | When Coleman checked with the American manufacturers in Indiana , he discovered that they were really tank engines which Talar had somehow scrounged from the Israeli Army . |
| 18 | Cocoa production had largely shifted from the coastal area , where disease had destroyed many cocoa trees , into Ashanti . |
| 19 | In any case Mrs Dinah had hardly recovered from the latest birth . |
| 20 | Tusser called it the goef , and we can be sure that , like the word , the design of the barn itself and the work that went on in it had hardly changed from the sixteenth century to within living memory . |
| 21 | Artisans ' nominal earnings , which had hardly changed from the 1720s to the 1790s , then experienced a series of sharp increases . |
| 22 | Up front , Ian Corcoran and Gary Isaac showed they had also benefited from the Scottish training , while John Laing and Graham Shepherd cleaned up at the lineout . |
| 23 | Objections to the application for planning permission had also come from the Western Regional Fisheries Board and Westport Tourism as well as several individuals . |
| 24 | Elizabeth had particularly suffered from the Snowbound school of reviewers ; being insensitive to the charm of her work , they found it trivial . |
| 25 | No , I had n't deserted from the British Army . |
| 26 | Stunned that he had n't known from the first moment that something was wrong with her . |
| 27 | Mr Howell said the ‘ spaghetti junction ’ of organisations had partially stemmed from the economic regeneration funds pumped into the North-East . |
| 28 | Since being ‘ sacked ’ ( his own expression ) by President Mitterrand nearly two years ' ago , M Rocard had virtually disappeared from the national political scene . |
| 29 | Since being ‘ sacked ’ ( his own expression ) by President Mitterrand nearly two years ' ago , Michel Rocard had virtually disappeared from the national political scene . |
| 30 | Now they knew that the women had been right , Jesus had indeed risen from the dead . |