Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They bartered their grain for the salt he 'd brought back from the border , where he traded with Tibetans who 'd scraped it from the arid salt-lakes and carried it south on yaks across the windswept dust-blown plateau lands . |
| 2 | Yet considerate as ever , Louisa had shielded him from the worst of the intrusion . |
| 3 | Last time I had been to Paris they had rescued me from the freezing streets and hungry wolf packs . ) |
| 4 | J.B. Priestley once said that it could never quite make up its mind whether it was a port or a resort , but that very ambivalence had saved it from the worst pitfalls of both . |
| 5 | Until he had died for man 's forgiveness , until God had raised him from the dead by way of vindication , the Spirit which rested upon him was not available to be passed on to others . |
| 6 | They had removed him from the stifling atmosphere of the Court , but already he was finding that Civil Service protocol could be just as oppressive . |
| 7 | No other man had so eloquently and constantly spoken of the way I had haunted him from the first moment he cast eyes on me . |