Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rye hid him from the French rankers , and only those officers on horseback could see the Rifleman over the tall crop . |
| 2 | Leaves danced curlicues on the pavement as the wind ripped them from the plane trees and sent them scurrying along the ground . |
| 3 | The barmaid led them from the bar and up some rickety steps . |
| 4 | The marquis lifted her from the saddle , feeling the warmth of her body against his own , wishing he could go on holding her for ever . |
| 5 | A slight chill the day after the sale had delayed her journey to London and so she had been forced to leave Summer Lodge with her few possessions in a bag and watch as the cab carried her from the large estate on the hill to the cramped rooms of the house in Chapel Street . |
| 6 | As the garrison watched him from the shelter of the verandah they could tell that the rain was having a bad effect on him ; he clearly did not like the way it beat on his head and shoulders raising a fine spray ; nor did he seem partial to the way it poured down the neck of his shirt and coursed down his trouser legs . |
| 7 | The Portuguese who ruled the coastal areas of the island captured it from the King of Kandy three times between 1505 and 1656 . |
| 8 | The buoy shielded her from the view of the guards , and she used that advantage to get her breath back . |
| 9 | So I left , and as I walked back to my car , the man watched me from the little steel balcony upon which Kanaan Abu Khadra had played as a boy . |
| 10 | ‘ How very different from Spain' was Dana 's first comment as the bus took us from the station to Avondale Buildings . |
| 11 | In the early years this had always been kept small , but in the 1980s the Treasury increased it from the traditional 2 per cent of planned public spending in the 1976–9 period to over 6 per cent in 1990–1 . |