Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] from [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thing she 'd learned from Ace in the short time they 'd been together was to be quick on her feet . |
| 2 | The Seville Junta behaved with criminal selfishness and , but for the moderation of its general , it might have declared war on Granada ; it refused to send the Andalusian Army to the critical Ebro front where the French , after Joseph had withdrawn from Madrid in the panic caused by the defeat of French corps by the patriots of Bailén , were massing for a reinvasion of Spain . |
| 3 | She had stopped to help someone who had fainted from hunger in the street . |
| 4 | The two women had travelled from Durban to the holiday resort at Sordwana near South Africa 's border with Mozambique on Friday . |
| 5 | Indeed , a painter-critic named Lecomte had resigned from membership of the Salon because he felt the Cubists were too numerous and their work too well hung . |
| 6 | The last proposal for change had come from France on the grounds of weather being better later in the season but it was decided then to leave fixtures in their present slots from January-March . |
| 7 | A request for a diary had come from friends of the broker whose daughter was due home from Arra in Zaire because of political troubles . |
| 8 | For she had actually been engaged in the very pleasant task of deciding which room in her new house at Far Flatley might best be converted into a nursery when a messenger had come from Frizingley with the awful news . |
| 9 | She said that the complaints had come from people on the same estate who were ‘ really quite close ’ to the former rectory . |
| 10 | The girl had suffered from tuberculosis of the lungs , but it was agreed that although that would ‘ probably at no very distant period have terminated fatally ’ the immediate cause of death was in the stomach . |
| 11 | The Austrian government on Feb. 14 , 1990 , concluded various agreements with Jewish organizations for the payment of nearly US$200 million in benefits to Austrian Jews who had suffered from persecution after the country 's forcible union with Nazi Germany in 1938 [ see also p. 37688 ] . |
| 12 | He was sixty-eight years old and had suffered from cancer of the oesophagus for some time . |
| 13 | She loved to move her money around , a process which had suffered from acceleration since the stock market collapse of the autumn of 1987 . |
| 14 | Only five of the men who had sailed from Bristol with the Hispaniola returned with her . |
| 15 | Upon their marriage they had moved from Allerthorpe to the market town and in 1881 were living and working in the Market Place , next door to Henry King the ratcatcher and close to two other saddlers . |
| 16 | In autumn 1955 the decision was taken to withdraw Soviet troops from the military and naval base at Porkkala which the Soviet Union had leased from Finland under the terms of the 1947 Finnish-Soviet Peace Treaty . |
| 17 | The Guardian of May 13 reported that the country 's health directorate had confirmed that 951 people had died from diarrhoea in the previous two weeks , mostly in cyclone-affected areas . |
| 18 | Dr Ceri Williams , consultant pathologist at the hospital , said Mr Prattley had died from fibrosis of the lungs . |
| 19 | Mr Rice , a surgeon , stated that PC Charlton had died from pressure to the brain caused by a fracture of the skull , this in turn being consistent with the young constable 's head hitting the kerb during the affray . |
| 20 | Using data supplied by local police forces and government ministries , the report stated that ( i ) 4,611 children and adolescents had died from violence over the previous three years , more than 50 per cent of them shot and the rest killed by stabbing , beating , poisoning or strangling ; ( ii ) young girls were raped and many had died from clandestine abortions after becoming prostitutes ; ( iii ) children were exploited from the age of three by professional beggars , from the age of six by drug traffickers and , if they survived , ended up in armed groups used by criminal gangs and even the police ; ( iv ) the abuse of drugs and solvents was common among street children ; ( v ) an estimated 3,000 children were illegally adopted annually by foreigners , 50 per cent going to Italy and 30 per cent to France , who paid up to US$20,000 for a white child ; and ( vi ) 25,000,000 out of 45,000,000 children were chronically underfed , 30 per cent lived in poverty and 10,000 were child workers . |
| 21 | Someone , I thought with illumination , who knew how easily Olympia had died from hands round the neck . |
| 22 | Since the Harrods department store bombing of December 1983 [ see p. 32809 ] , the IRA had desisted from attacks on the mainland in which the public was directly endangered , and the station bombings were thus seen as marking a change in IRA tactics . |
| 23 | Gwenellen was at tea , and reading a letter she had had from Aline by the second post . |
| 24 | The ground and the weight seemed too much for him and he had retired from contention before the penultimate fence . |
| 25 | They were helped by one-time Allies of the Australians : long-term Portuguese prisoners who had escaped from custody during the summer and now wandered the island in groups of six or more . |
| 26 | We had arrived from Harehills on the up and up with the booming coal industry . |
| 27 | On the eve of Shevardnadze 's arrival , Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu had addressed a protest rally by supporters of his Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) demanding the return of the Northern Territories , a group of islands off the north-east coast of the Japanese island of Hokkaido which the Soviet Union had seized from Japan at the end of the Second World War ( annually since 1982 the LDP had observed Sept. 3 as a day of protest against the Soviet occupation of the islands ) . |
| 28 | It was one of the things that had disappeared from Renascia towards the end and it gave Fenella an odd , rather out-of-balance feeling to see dawn light again . |
| 29 | A recent correspondence printed in the Regimental Association journal Mars and Minerva alluded to the time in Operation Houndsworth when three aircraft had left from Fairford for the Morvan . |
| 30 | This provocative election showed that dissatisfaction with the government had spread from intellectuals to the privileged . |