Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cult of the martyr became detached from the general cult of the community 's dead members . |
| 2 | A large suitcase lay on the bed , still full of the clothes he 'd taken from the other room . |
| 3 | I did n't know about the woman and thought he 'd chipped from the left-hand side of the fairway to the right-hand side . |
| 4 | Snow had started to block all roads north on the morning we left , and as the last car slithered into the driveway of the cottage , with its white-faced traumatised occupants , Torridon became sealed from the outside world in a spectacular blizzard . |
| 5 | Despite the opposition of the dominant culture , the music of those within the culture but not of it , the blacks , found resonance with the experiences of others who felt alienated from the established order . |
| 6 | Jumblatt also announced that he was suspending his own participation in the Cabinet until the army had withdrawn from the National Library , the Emir Amin Palace and the Bayt al-Din Palace — buildings the PSP had recently been occupying . |
| 7 | Some were small but violent , like Islamic Jihad , which had broken from the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1960s . |
| 8 | ( 2 ) Directing that the money remain in court , that , where solicitors sought payment out to them of money belonging to a foreign state , if the court was not satisfied that the solicitors had authority to act on behalf of that state , it should , of its own motion if necessary , require them to obtain that authority and ensure that the money remained under the court 's control meanwhile ; that the factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a regime existed as the government of a state were whether it was the constitutional government of the state , the degree , nature and stability of administrative control that it exercised over the territory of the state , whether Her Majesty 's Government had any dealings with it and the nature of any such dealings and , in marginal cases , the extent of its international recognition as the government of the state ; that on the evidence , M. 's interim government did not become the constitutional successor of the former government and was unable to show that if it was exercising any administrative control over the territory of the Republic of Somalia ; and , accordingly , the instructions and authority the solicitors had received from the interim government were not from the Government of the Republic of Somalia , and no part of the proceeds in court should be paid out to the solicitors without further order of the court ( post , pp. 750G–H , 757E–G ) . |
| 9 | When I arrived they showed me the letter they had received from the Chief Education Officer that morning which explained the proposed Statementing procedure : |
| 10 | Clarke virtually admitted that he did not believe that these important issues should be discussed in public when he defended the government 's decision not to publish the advice on science funding which it had received from the Advisory Board for the Research Councils . |
| 11 | He was concerned about de Gaulle 's anti-Americanism , but was pleased by the support he had received from the French leader in 1958–61 over the Berlin crises with Russia . |
| 12 | On that day , twenty-seven days earlier , he had travelled from the Syrian Embassy back to his rented home in Kingston-upon-Thames , and there he had , for the first time , informed his wife of their changed circumstances . |
| 13 | Nervously , he stepped into the room and walked around , crunching the broken plaster that had fallen from the crumbling ceiling . |
| 14 | She was part Mulholland on her mother 's side and she knew we had fallen from the middle class or , to be precise , that her mother had married down , even though she loved her father . |
| 15 | He said it had differed from the Foreign Office advice because it had subsequently been been scrutinised in ‘ greater detail ’ . |
| 16 | Robinson , 46 , a lawyer associated with human rights and civil liberties work , had resigned from the Labour Party in 1985 in protest at the Anglo-Irish agreement . |
| 17 | He had resigned from the Military Council in April 1989 and had subsequently been arrested and charged with illegal possession of arms and ammunition . |
| 18 | Edward Boyle , who had resigned from the previous Government over its management of the Suez crisis , became his Parliamentary Secretary . |
| 19 | In his public statements on the dispute Lal portrayed it both as a factional struggle , between himself and members of Janata Dal who had come from the Prime Minister 's Jan Morcha group , and as a conflict between urban politicians and a representative of rural India . |
| 20 | I did n't understand her questions was it the figures had come from the private sector I 'm not sure if she understood it herself either erm we 've talked in the social services planning cuts committee about a list of homes for refurbishment and Mr wanted a very long list er a list which would blight every home not on the list . |
| 21 | At first it had seemed he was only there to sit out the war with his French woman , but then the summons had come from the Dutch army and Isabella had known that her husband would follow Sharpe . |
| 22 | The exercise led to a bizarre episode in 1967 , when the mayor of Londonderry , Councillor Albert Anderson , produced a letter which he claimed had come from the working committee . |
| 23 | Opposition to the ban had come from the traditional whaling countries of Norway , Iceland and Japan , joined by St Vincent and St Lucia . |
| 24 | And so although his early contributors had come from the European tradition which preceded the Great War , by the early Thirties he had come to rely more and more upon British contributors . |
| 25 | Sports editor Bob Edwell , who had come from the Daily Express in London , was looking for sports writers , and above all the paper needed its back bench staffed by the all-important sub-editors , who prepare the reporters ' words ( the copy ) for the paper , and write the headlines . |
| 26 | I found it strange that those words had come from the Parliamentary Secretary because , when I read them , I thought that they had been written by the Labour candidate , John Metcalfe , because there was no other indication that that article had been written by a Minister of the Crown who is responsible for this country 's agriculture . |
| 27 | The treasure had come from the French baggage captured at Vitoria in Spain , a country where Sergeant Patrick Harper had found both wealth and a wife . |
| 28 | At the [ material ] time the plaintiff had come from the back door of the house and had walked diagonally across the first concrete area ; she was intending to go and have a chat with her neighbour at the next house . |
| 29 | In relation to transfer , about 50 per cent of employment had come from the local area and almost 25 per cent from the region . |
| 30 | Most funding had come from the Urban Programme , amounting to about £9 million per annum . |