Example sentences of "[vb past] from [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward II 's cousin and the most powerful of his earls , he rose from the middle ranks of the gentry into the upper ranks of the baronage . |
| 2 | Most of her life was spent pushing barges loaded with silt dredged from the narrow canals around Birmingham . |
| 3 | He was holding a cage in his hands , dredged from the bottom-most depths of the Luggage . |
| 4 | The more strictly domestic staff of the Chamber ranged from the four esquires of the body through the fairly honorific bannerets , knights of the household , and chaplains to a range of lesser men : grooms , pages , yeomen , doctors , surgeons , barbers , minstrels , masters of grammar , messengers ; and so on . |
| 5 | Mrs Nicholson meanwhile was doing rather well in her beautician business and when Jack was five they moved from the less-salubrious surroundings of Sixth Avenue in Neptune to Fifth Avenue in Neptune City which was , as Jack recognized years later , a slightly better position for a young boy . |
| 6 | At Highbury the trouble stemmed from the Canute-like attempts of Sir Henry Norris to halt the rising tide of transfer fees . |
| 7 | Mr Justice Chadwick said that the court 's powers to control the sale of land belonging to a charity stemmed from the ancient powers of the Crown . |
| 8 | They fled from the marauding Malays of earlier times ; they flee from the approach of any stranger today ; they flee from any imagined threatening event or confrontation . |
| 9 | Agatha stepped closer , covering her head with her hood against the drops of rain which dripped from the overhanging branches of the oak tree . |
| 10 | The threat of papal taxation once again receded from the English clergy for some years to come . |
| 11 | The widow of a Melbourne barman who died of lung cancer has been awarded A$20,000 from the man 's employers because he suffered from the adverse effects of passive smoking , despite the fact that he himself smoked 10 cigarettes a day . |
| 12 | His charges never suffered from the normal ailments of the young ; no scour , no joint ill , no pneumonia . |
| 13 | Table 18 , below , shows the percentages of all defective items which suffered from the specific types of damage noted . |
| 14 | The LDP also suffered from the continuing consequences of the Recruit scandal ( in October Hishashi Shinto , one of the country 's most senior industrialists , was given a suspended two-year sentence for his role in the affair — see p. 37780 ) and the resignation from the party of a former Cabinet Minister , Toshiyuki Inamura , after being charged with large-scale tax evasion [ see p. 37917 ] . |
| 15 | The skis and sledges came from the best shops in Norway , but Bjaaland was n't happy with them . |
| 16 | Leonard Cheshire and I were pilot officers together in No 4 Group at the beginning of the war ; he came from the dreaming spires of Oxford and I had just been commissioned as a pilot officer after serving a stint of five years as a sergeant pilot . |
| 17 | Table 5.8 demonstrates that a greater proportion of users known to both prevalence studies came from the two townships with higher levels of social deprivation . |
| 18 | I do not know if Alex used it to court his Mary — he must have used something — ‘ The joke was unconscious but crowing laughter came from the young men beside the whisky jar . |
| 19 | Part of the difficulty with the image came from the noisy fears of the critics , especially those who insisted that comprehensive schools would , if they were to be as good as grammar schools , have to be huge . |
| 20 | They came from the four corners of the world , east and west , north and south , and they spoke many languages . |
| 21 | The other motivation for European Union came from the newly-freed countries of Central Europe themselves , who favoured it in the knowledge that only a strong Community , closely knit in a European Union , would have the resources and united will to assist them towards eventual EC membership . |
| 22 | They came from the big houses down the loch or over the pass towards Loch Lomond , or the castle at Inverary , from miles and miles , little girls in furred and caped coats and dresses gathered into heavy bows behind the cascades of ringlets . |
| 23 | Apart from the lamps that gave a yellow glow to the leaves , the only light came from the big windows of the Communist club which was packed on both floors , its discotheque going full swing . |
| 24 | All the doors off it had been closed , and the only light came from the open archways at its beginning and end . |
| 25 | Some of the first victims to be helped came from the war-torn streets of Greece … |
| 26 | The popes had to come to terms with the nobles and those who came from the noble families of the city naturally built up their own families and factions in order to survive . |
| 27 | Indeed it does , and it seems the job can not be left to the mere television reviewer either , for criticism soon leaked from the cultural pages to the overtly political ones , even reaching as far as the editorial sections of some newspapers . |
| 28 | Radio One leaked from the open windows of a house . |
| 29 | When Russian forces finally retreated from the Danubian Principalities in 1834 , Nicholas seemed to have achieved the final stabilization of his southern frontier . |
| 30 | She picked one , and held it to her face , and in the lights which shone from the long windows of the house , Edouard saw that the colour of the flower , that rich deep red shot through with gold , was the colour of her hair . |