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Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] from the [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Anyway I went there and I was impressed , I 'd seen it from the ship and I completely concur with everything that 's been said .
2	Joe said he 'd got them from the pawnshop .
3	I 'd known him from the start of punk .
4	They 'd taken her from the police cells after two days .
5	She 'd taken him from the town and the friends that he knew and she 'd brought him to this great , dusty mausoleum of a place where he did n't even like to run around because the echo of his footsteps sounded too much like someone faceless who was following too close .
6	I knew that I 'd loved you from the moment we first met and I 'd never stopped . ’
7	I thought she 'd fetched it from the bedroom .
8	I got more of a role in the whole thing than the Colonel had figured on — I do n't know if my mistress had intended it from the start .
9	And the Cid sent for all his friends and his kinsmen and vassals , and told them how King Don Alfonso had banished him from the land , and asked for them who would follow him into banishment , and who would remain at home .
10	Sister had heard them from the S.C.O . 's office and was already beside me .
11	He looked behind confirming that his body had joined him from the ground .
12	It had been Intelligence 's own Self Inflicted Wound that had lifted him from the status of a policeman to that of a ranking diplomat .
13	He had occupied it from the creation of the new Czechoslovakia in 1990 until his resignation last year over the sheering off of Slovakia .
14	Deborah Ford , 29 , said later that her husband had pushed her from the path of the shark .
15	Even with the whitewash skeleton painted on to him , Benny had no difficulty recognizing the serpentine man who had kidnapped her from the museum .
16	In a daring helicopter operation supporters had freed him from the prison on Naos Island , off Panama City , on Dec. 4 .
17	Stephen had seen it from the window of his room , its red , white and blue vivid in the twilight .
18	He had seen it from the outside .
19	Ruth had felt it from the moment he had picked her up at the hotel and once again they had headed for the Cartuja site of the Expo .
20	At times he would claim that his father had been lashed in front of the town and put in the stocks for poaching a salmon , and told to pray for the soul of Lord I — whose goodness had saved him from the hanging he deserved .
21	Whatever vanishing act had saved her from the goon with the gun , it had left her armed .
22	If their historical interest had saved them from the pick , the swinging steel ball , and the bulldozer , their intractable lay-out had discouraged renovators who might have put them to some use .
23	They belonged to Hammersmith Council who had bought them from the BBC for something like three million pounds .
24	This song appealed especially , as we had filched it from the Germans .
25	We had a bachelor party on board , who were out for a little merrymaking : an island marriage ball had wooed them from the desk of the counting-house , and having had a taste of the free air of these parts , and being good fellows well met , a few more days of healthful roving have a gleeful appendix to the gaieties of the wedding .
26	She put them under her raincoat in the basket and looked at the receipt the chemist had handed her from the till ; there was no evidence that she had paid for these items .
27	Whatever musings had abstracted me from the charms of the city fled before the lucidity of that long-drawn-out instant of disaster .
28	I told him he could have some of the pills Richard had got me from the chemist yesterday .
29	She just replied that she had got it from the cupboard . ’
30	So had Nicol perceptibly brightened , though rather with the hope of getting his revenge on the devils who had tumbled him from the wagon , and threatened his companions with steel and arrows .