Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] from the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one knight became separated from the rest of his team he might find five or six opponents all bearing down on him at once , and one of them might strike him in the back . |
| 2 | Every month he 'd read a list — it was a list of names of young men , and some women , who 'd vanished from the face of the earth . |
| 3 | Stephen had gone out first , scrambling up the shaft , putting all his weight this time on the rope and wondering what would happen , whether they would ever be found alive , if the rope came unfastened from the spur of rock to which they had tied it . |
| 4 | ‘ But the other , the man , the forensic pathologist thought he 'd died from the effects of nerve gas . ’ |
| 5 | There was no tension in him : when he was tense there was a rigidity in his neck muscles , a rigidity I 'd watched from the depths of the crowd during the brief day of his trial and seen a few times since , as at Nottingham . |
| 6 | Almost without being aware of it I 'd progressed from the hesitancy of my first few days there to a strong positive desire to go down to the starting gate : any starting gate , anywhere . |
| 7 | He looked as though he 'd stepped from the pages of a history book . |
| 8 | What seems to have happened is that at that moment the water table in the Rift Valley fell , Lake Tocarno became isolated from the rest of the rift . |
| 9 | On Oct. 5 the consortium led by the US Bell Atlantic Telephone Company had withdrawn from the purchase of Entelnor , which was eventually bought by a consortium formed by the Italian state telecommunications company STET SpA , France Cable and Radio ( part of French Telcomm ) , Perez Co ( a local oil , fishing and banking group ) and the US bankers J.P . |
| 10 | Though remarkably free from bitterness , the sergeant had withdrawn from the company of his friends to an alarming extent , even allowing for his love of literature . |
| 11 | Sarah Hunt , 74 , of Weardale Drive , Woodhouse Close , Bishop Auckland , clung hold of her sister Joan Whalen for 25 minutes after neighbours alerted the ambulance service that Mrs Whalen had plunged from the window of her house . |
| 12 | In such a short space of time , he had plunged from the pinnacle of success to the depths of defeat . |
| 13 | In 1976 , the mother and step-father parted , and in 1990 , the woman heard he had parted from the mother of his daughter and wanted access . |
| 14 | Five days later Ira Dilworth called me to his office where , in his kindly fashion , he expressed surprise that he had heard from the RCAF of my application before I had discussed it with him . |
| 15 | His circumstances had been extremely variable ; nonetheless , he had received from the generosity of the Philippians . |
| 16 | Sad that his country had fallen from the top of the European industrial league , to joint eighth out of nine , and bitter toward the foolish leaders who had been largely responsible for its decline . |
| 17 | As they climbed from the back of the ambulance Rachel was met by the foreman of that particular section , who informed her that the man had fallen from the top of the jig to the second section . |
| 18 | Twenty-three people had vanished from the face of the earth . |
| 19 | Shevardnadze had resigned from the post of Foreign Minister on Dec. 20 , 1990 , warning of the danger of impending dictatorship [ see p. 37903 ] . |
| 20 | In resigning the South Bronx district seat which he had held since 1978 , Garcia followed the example of fellow Democrat Mario Biaggi who had resigned from the House of Representatives in August 1988 after being convicted in connection with the Wedtech affair [ ibid . ] . |
| 21 | Maj. Joseph Michel François , acknowledged by diplomats to have been a ringleader , insisted to foreign journalists that the main impetus had come from the ranks of the 8,000-strong army who feared the growing influence of Aristide 's new foreign-trained 50-member presidential guard . |
| 22 | We learned soon that the money for Frank had come from the wife of our new romantic juvenile , Laurence Wheldon , a blonde and willowy man whose good looks far exceeded his acting powers but whose wife 's money was underwriting the company , to say nothing of her husband 's ambitions . |
| 23 | To-day a wild letter had come from the wife of one who refused subordinate office which will give me a sleepless night . |
| 24 | And as for Tommy 's death , what proof had he that one stray bullet among so many had come from the pistol of Captain Trentham ? |
| 25 | One of their products was erm you , when you see in the cars th th that they can er make them open top and they close the backs down , there 's a bracket on the side that er hinges up and well they used to special you know , it had come from the landaus of the horse drawn vehicle , the same sort of thing , well they used to specialize in that and they used to make some kind of locks but I 'm I have never talked to anybody that worked there so I , I do n't know , but that 's the only other one as I , as I 'm aware of er was the , was Wilks 's and er Bloxwich Lock . |
| 26 | The most dramatic , of a swaggering Mars with drawn sword ( lot 33 ) , had suffered from the deterioration of the iron gall ink used by the artist . |
| 27 | ( 4 ) Seventy per cent of the sick group had suffered from the effects of serious pregnancy and/or birth complications as babies . |
| 28 | The decree had transferred from the jurisdiction of Moscow city soviet ( council ) to the USSR Council of Ministers the authority to authorize rallies in central Moscow . |
| 29 | The constable was soon joined by his colleagues and between them they obtained detailed descriptions of the man who had dashed from the direction of the bakery . |
| 30 | Li was sentenced to four years in prison , two years for each count , and ordered to pay both the alleged HK$865,000 ( US$110,000 ) profit he had made from the sale of the shares , and the estimated US$1,300,000 in court costs . |