Example sentences of "they [vb past] from the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schools were asked to indicate the kind of support they requested from the various agencies . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They came from the armed forces , from war work , from factory , farm , workshop and office . |
| 5 | They came from the four corners of the world , east and west , north and south , and they spoke many languages . |
| 6 | Encouraged by the pride of the town authorities , the Guy Fawkes celebrations provided an annual explosion for the town 's poor : deprived as they had been of saints ' days with the advent of Puritanism , they came from the miserable hovels cramped in the town 's back alleys to protest not only against the symbols of oppression but also , in bad years , against the local oligarchy . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In this they suffered from the same defects as the streltsy , the small force of regular infantry originally set up during Ivan the Terrible 's reign . |
| 9 | Released , they stepped from the duelling blocks . |
| 10 | All the houses in the neighbourhood have these alarms , and Vic admits that they are necessary , with burglaries increasing in frequency and boldness all the time , but the system they inherited from the previous owners of the house , with its magnetic contacts , infra-red scanners , pressure pads and panic buttons , is in his opinion over-elaborate . |
| 11 | The most radical of these new mayors , like Bassam Shak'a of Nablus and Karim Khalaf of Ramallah , found themselves facing almost as much difficulty from Jordan and the PLO leadership as they did from the Israeli authorities . |
| 12 | At the first watering place they jumped from the open wagons and rushed to douse their burning clothes . |