Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] from the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " .
2 His assertion that the problem remains and is handed down from the first generation of Homo sapiens to the present one in the institutions of religion and art seems to be , prima facie , very plausible .
3 Macmillan , the publisher , had a quantity of ‘ sheets ’ left over from the first printing and shipped them over to Appleton & Co. , the American publishers .
4 It is still there , and , periodically , repressed material returns to set problems for man which remain unresolved , left over from the first parricide .
5 ‘ We need to face the frustrations left over from the second world war ’ , he says .
6 Yes I put out an appeal to er my readers to search their attics and their er lofts and their garden sheds for all the things they might have left over from the second World War .
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