Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] from a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His pursuit of the same approach in his cantatas arose perhaps from a firm conviction of what would succeed in a genre so closely allied to opera , perhaps from innate conservatism . |
| 2 | When invited to lecture at Cheltenham Art Gallery he merely read aloud from a printed copy of his talk , Speculations on the Contemporary Painter . |
| 3 | Although Stalin died in 1953 and Soviet communism changed gradually from a totalitarian regime into a more conventional authoritarian state run by a collective leadership , the de-Stalinization of Western communism proceeded very slowly . |
| 4 | She woke slowly from a vague dream as an errant breeze drifted over her face , coming to rest on her mouth . |
| 5 | His health was poor , for he suffered constantly from a malarial type disease , quartan ague , which left him feverish and weak . |
| 6 | He 'd been a prisoner-of-war in Germany during the First World War and as a result of his wartime experiences suffered constantly from a weak chest . |
| 7 | Paris was the world 's cultural capital in their eyes , but Russia suffered alternately from a deep-rooted inferiority complex , saddled with two cultural capitals looking away from each other towards Asia and Europe ; or from an unstable Messianic superiority complex , derived from Byzantium via Dostoevsky and now resurrected phoenix-like by the Bolsheviks under a new guise . |
| 8 | His eldest son came home from a great war in another land … ’ |
| 9 | The impetus came partly from a growing interest in Schopenhauer 's theory of music , and partly from an uncomfortable sense that his own artistic practice was diverging further and further from the theoretical postulates of which it was supposed to be the realization . |
| 10 | There is no way , for example , that one could work out that the lens came originally from an overlying sheet of cells without following its development . |
| 11 | Worse still , the camps were breeding grounds for fever , and Battle in 1809 suffered severely from a typhoid outbreak which began in its barracks . |
| 12 | Clamorous criticism of this category of capital murder came simultaneously from an opposing tendency . |
| 13 | An answer came unexpectedly from a middle-aged man leaning on the rail nearby . |
| 14 | The books had taken their battering well , although the covers of one were bent and crimped inwards from a hard landing . |
| 15 | She arrived home from a foreign holiday yesterday considerably richer than when she left . |
| 16 | Sometimes , moreover , experience can show that our reasoning is superficial and incorrect , as when we learn from it that , despite what we might think , an arrow fired upwards from a moving ship will not fall behind but back on to it . |
| 17 | Water poured continually from a constant-level tank into one scoop after another of a large waterwheel , but each scoop could not descend until it was full . |
| 18 | Much the same would have been thought of Jessica as she would have been seen as someone who walked away from an evil religion and stepped into the right path . |
| 19 | On Dec. 19 Yeltsin returned early from an official visit to China [ see also p. 39236 ] , apparently because of fears that conservative figures were about to be promoted to government posts . |
| 20 | The new claim comes on the day the princess returned home from a disastrous tour to South Korea only to hear that the baby son of a close friend had died . |
| 21 | There was a stand of bronze inlaid with silver , looted perhaps from a rich merchant 's house , and a cut of marble propped on an empty brazier and supporting the physician 's jars and boxes and bottles . |
| 22 | Off to the side , Carrefour watched mockingly from a comfortable chair . |
| 23 | England recovered well from a slow start and their 3 ½-½ victory over the United States was their widest margin ever in matches between the two countries . |
| 24 | ‘ Do not handle food you do not intend to consume ’ , Lady Selvedge read loudly from a printed notice . |
| 25 | At a level slightly higher than their heads , and several yards within the cordon , this raw soil fell away from a dark hole like the mouth of a deep , narrow cave , large enough , perhaps , to admit a small child . |
| 26 | The coroner said Michael 's head hit the chair and he died instantly from a fractured skull . |
| 27 | The folds of this pinafore fell amply from a short yoke , and beneath it she wore a succession of woollen jumpers . |
| 28 | Ten minutes later he was down and seated across from a young duty captain as they travelled the fast-link that connected the City to the spaceport . |
| 29 | His weight increased rapidly from an early age — the result of a natural physical disorder , not over-indulgence — and at the age of 23 he weighed 32 stone . |
| 30 | Her old white dress and purple shawl She bought once from an ancient stall . |