Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] from [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a long time , a familiar voice woke them from their lazy reverie . |
| 2 | I ordered it at the branch of the Times Library then housed in Elliston and Cavell 's , the nearest equivalent to Harrods in the Oxford of pre-war years , and remember with what excitement I received it from their admirable librarian Miss Lush ( now Lady Ormerod ) at the end of my day 's work in the Bodleian . |
| 3 | In addition , we became experts in a new and complex world where everything from the intricacies of a changing semantic of underground language to the knowledge that tetrahydrocannabinol ( THE ) was the active ingredient of cannabis separated us from our previous associations and took us into a world where few in the organization could begin to operate with comfort . |
| 4 | Champ had pined for his master since police took him from his old home . |
| 5 | The negative side of all this was ben Eliezer 's polemics against straight-faced , over-serious rabbinism ; against those whose understanding of God 's nature was austere and unfatherly ; those who , while seeking to elevate the Most High , merely put him out of touch with his own children ; debarred them from his welcoming presence by a system or learning that became ‘ frivolous ’ in its intensity : not that its perpetrators could be frivolous : black was their colour , even as severity was their posture — as becomes the frozen-in-soul . |
| 6 | removed them from our approved list for a , a period . |
| 7 | Just as his political commitments exiled him from his own class , so my politics involve an awkward relationship with my own class . |
| 8 | I LEARNED it from my elder sister , the Indian scout of my life . |
| 9 | The colonel , monocle in place , once again briefed them from his motionless horse . |
| 10 | The system distracted them from their own businesses and led many of the richest families to ruin , punished for failure to fulfil the Tsar 's expectations . |
| 11 | It has been suggested that their slow decline in the last I00 million years or so has been caused by the commensurate rise in diversity of filter-feeding bivalve molluscs , which ousted them from their former habitats . |
| 12 | She had it from your ex-special p. , and he had it from his father . |
| 13 | Maxham was the first to appear ; Celia recognized him from his previous visits to the office . |
| 14 | His call was traced and half an hour later police rescued him from his traumatic experience . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm afraid it is , ’ said Breeze , and he rescued it from its watery grave , and shook it before handing it to her . |