Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] from the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd taken her from the police cells after two days . |
| 2 | This song appealed especially , as we had filched it from the Germans . |
| 3 | Whatever musings had abstracted me from the charms of the city fled before the lucidity of that long-drawn-out instant of disaster . |
| 4 | A junior nurse on Folliott , the male medical ward , sat at her table , full of talk about one of their patients who had suffered an acute asthmatic attack and gone into respiratory failure , and how Dr Kent had grabbed him from the jaws of death . |
| 5 | The Eladeldi had dragged her from the steps into an alley , shoved her against a wall and searched her . |
| 6 | Captain Kinloch had inherited the estate of Kinloch in Strathmore from his younger brother , John , who had purchased it from the proceeds of a fortune made as a sugar planter in Jamaica , and had died in 1770 . |
| 7 | We happen to know from the historian Livy that a city called Morgantina was settled by the Romans with a group of Spaniards who were fighting on their side in Sicily , after they had captured it from the Carthaginians in 211BC , and the coins thereby enabled the site to be identified as that of Morgantina . |