Example sentences of "they [vb past] from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But police in Foxboro , Massa-chusetts , said there was less trouble than they expected from the 50,000 crowd .
2 Schools were asked to indicate the kind of support they requested from the various agencies .
3 Vale dominated the first 45 minutes against a Stockport side they dismissed from the second division play-off last Wednesday .
4 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 .
5 They ranged from the modest puffing of his travel book by a visiting American author on Radio 4 to the screening of pre-launch films about the making of big budget movies such as Gandhi .
6 They crashed from the raised platform at the stern , down among the feet , of the rowers who hastily jumped out of their way .
7 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 .
8 By and large they fell in happily with the exhortations they received from the Arab world not to take any unauthorized political initiatives .
9 In the north-west , too , in Galicia , the rebels quickly triumphed , thanks to the assistance they received from the Civil Guard in overcoming the resistance of loyal troops and civilians .
10 They came from the armed forces , from war work , from factory , farm , workshop and office .
11 As for the clothes , money and jewellery sported by many locals , they came from the gruesome supply of drowned bodies that were washed ashore each morning on the high tide .
12 They came from the four corners of the world , east and west , north and south , and they spoke many languages .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 They came from the same country .
16 These characteristics very considerably , but similar patterns can be found in several different churches and one can be fairly confident they came from the same workshop .
17 Denis wondered sometimes if they came from the same father and mother .
18 I er I did n't buy them and he sent us three boxes and they came from the same warehouse .
19 Although there is no precise information about the provenance of all of these finds , it is reasonable to assume that they came from the original excavation of the ‘ villa ’ or from adjacent sites .
20 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 .
21 As for the women , he said , they suffered from the same sort of things — depression and sometimes guilt .
22 When the seals , which belonged to Rose Cuthbert , were stolen the police said they dated from the pre-Ming dynasty .
23 Although many of his patients were , statistically speaking , ‘ abnormal ’ , that is , they differed from the average person in their group , they were nearer to the ‘ normal ’ in the evaluative sense , that is , in having some rational understanding of themselves .
24 Their tusks were gnarled and they differed from the older Daurog in one remarkable and savage aspect : ridges of long , black spikes grew from the fronts of their bodies ; the central , vertical line of thorns ran down on to the twisting , restless sex organs that hung from their rotund bellies .
25 Released , they stepped from the duelling blocks .
26 Benjamin and Elizabeth and their family belonged , in effect , to what we might choose to call the ‘ comfortable working class ’ ; they benefited from the general rise in Britain 's prosperity in Victorian times — cheaper food and clothing , better sanitation , faster transport , more substantial housing — but their money still had to be earned , had to be worked for .
27 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 .
28 They started from the front row on Sunday , Senna having produced his usual stunning lap to take pole , Prost following through in the Ferrari with a lap notable for its customary smoothness and precision .
29 They lay from the other side .
30 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 .
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