Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 45 minutes they finally emerged from the storm under broken cloud , and then made good time to Rangoon . |
| 2 | The house was broken into in the early hours of Friday morning and the intruders carried off the rock and pop CDs in a Head sports bag which they also stole from the house . |
| 3 | Here , while journalists strive earnestly to shed their previous role as mere mouthpieces of dictatorial regimes , they are forced to face up to the enormous financial difficulties involved in surviving in the market-place , without the comfortable support they formerly received from the state . ’ |
| 4 | They later withdrew from the competition . |
| 5 | The music changed to something more up-beat and , as if by mutual consent , they both moved from the floor , weaving their way through the crowd in search of a space . |
| 6 | During 1990 and 1991 they steadily withdrew from the work of all-union bodies , including the Congress of People 's Deputies and Federation Council , and suspended contributions to the USSR budget . |
| 7 | They too came from the land to the south where Kraal and Slorne came from and their colours were bright and striking . |
| 8 | The war made severe inroads into his livelihood and at times he would be forced onto the hills to join the gangs doing the walling , but he hated being away from his family and they too suffered from the separation and besides the wages were not enough for all seven of them . |