Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once again the money ran out before sufficient audiences could be attracted to the new policies of temperance and self-improvement , and in 1884 it was the millionaire textile manufacturer and Liberal MP , Samuel Morley [ q.v. ] , who came to the rescue of Emma and her theatre with interim funding , which led eventually to support from the charity commissioners and other private sponsorship with which , in 1891 , Emma Cons was able to buy the freehold of the theatre and dedicate it to musical and other entertainments of an uplifting or educational nature . |
| 2 | True , Shearer got little change from the skirmish with Neil Ruddock , his pal from Southampton days . |
| 3 | We 'd better start from the top . |
| 4 | said we 'd better go from the house . |
| 5 | A young woman living in a semi-detached house on an unpopular Sheffield estate showed me a letter she 'd just received from the electricity board : " A board employee will … call at your premises to cut off the electricity supply on 9/11/82 . |
| 6 | I held up the intact bottle of rice wine I 'd finally recovered from the depths of my parka . |
| 7 | ‘ I should have suspected , but I thought we 'd both learned from the tragedy of our mother . ’ |
| 8 | Shallow cores show that the pebbly sands and clays that came originally came from the ice-sheet contain shells that lived in the shallower waters of the continental shelf . |
| 9 | According to the book of legends you have just shown us , Arthur came here to drink from the Grail , whilst one of his knights , Sir Bedivere , reputedly took Excalibur down to Narepool which is only three miles from Glastonbury . |
| 10 | I came here to escape from the problems of my life in London and , without really meaning to , I came as far east as I could get . ’ |
| 11 | In both 1982 and 1983 , in fact , Niki seemed curiously abstracted from the business on the circuit . |
| 12 | He 'd been right when he 'd said she was shrewish , though she 'd never suffered from the malady before . |
| 13 | There was a look about him , as if he 'd recently returned from the Front . |
| 14 | The Secretary of State accepted the TGAT report as a basis for progress and commissioned further reports from the Group including one on the problems of practical implementation which gave a glimpse of the elaborate machinery that would be necessary . |
| 15 | As the curtain opened there hobbled from the wings what appeared to be an old Chinese mandarin with flowing blue robes , black silk jacket and red-buttoned Mandarin cap over hair that fell down his back in a long pigtail . |
| 16 | Some of them had chains round their boats , fore and aft , to hold them together , do they d ha sunk ; busted right open from the swelling of the wood with too much water . |
| 17 | It was her first solo foreign trip representing the royal family and she returned home to praise from the public for her dignified manner at the highly charged and at times mawkish funeral service . |
| 18 | I read that the film-maker , Gareth Wardell , had such a project that needed only support from the fund . |
| 19 | This meant that the district officer became increasingly isolated from the activities that often had the greatest impact on — and the greatest importance for — his district . |
| 20 | By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel . |
| 21 | She felt oddly detached from the comings and goings all around her . |
| 22 | The Balfourites did gradually fade from the scene ; Acland-Hood , Wyndham and Lyttleton all died , Halsbury and Akers-Douglas became too old , and Midleton was dropped . |
| 23 | Thus what Strange calls sterling 's role as a ‘ negotiated ’ currency — a top currency on the slide , which has to be constantly defended — emerged enormously strengthened from the Attlee period , and this must be seen as a major part of the legacy of that government . |
| 24 | Okay , but it I mean having said that , it did actually come from the pockets of all the people who are resident in the city |
| 25 | The king expected direct benefits from the recoinage . |
| 26 | Chattopadhyay had served as a Minister under Indira Gandhi in the 1970s ; following the November 1989 Lok Sabha elections he had unsuccessfully called for the resignation of Rajiv Gandhi as Congress ( I ) leader and had eventually resigned from the party . |
| 27 | Service attitudes — even in the RAF , which had most to gain from the Sandys Reformation — were bitterly hostile . |
| 28 | Mr. Waller said the aim of the quiz was to promote an awareness of other countries , their traditions , values and culture and that he was sure the pupils had all gained from the event . |
| 29 | But there had been no customer in the sweet shop for the last fifteen minutes , and the children had all disappeared from the window . |
| 30 | Bernice had obviously fallen from the ledge above her . |