Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereupon , declaring that no less precious food should thereafter pass her lips , the lady had , variously , starved herself to death or flung herself from the window , in which case her blood had forever coloured the ruddy rocks of Roussillon . |
| 2 | A few careful people had private records of their own , having either remembered the names or recovered them from copies , and took pride in preserving the memory of their aristocratic origin . |
| 3 | Drop nets can also be bought or made yourself from netting available to repair prawn nets . |
| 4 | No one knows whether they discovered the technique for themselves , or learnt it from others . |
| 5 | We will phase out the Assisted Places scheme ( without affecting pupils currently on a place , or offered one from September 1992 ) and redirect the savings to meet wider educational needs . |
| 6 | Whether the coffin-maker produced a bespoke outer case or took one from existing stock is not known , though logic argues in favour of the latter . |
| 7 | Moreover , Corbett realised that if de Craon knew he was asking questions it was only a matter of time before the Council of Guardians intervened and either put a stop to his activities or expelled him from the country . |
| 8 | Thus , if O were not the owner but had , for example stolen the car ( or bought it from someone who had stolen it ) then the true owner ( i. e. from whom the car was stolen ) will still have good title ( i. e. unless one of the other exceptions to the nemo dat principle applies ) . |
| 9 | Then swabbed the wash-basin clean guided Maxim downstairs and found their shoes and socks moving with a numb efficiency that abstracted him from the terrors of his imagination . |
| 10 | The Perm was soon taking pity on Charlie , as people tended to , and Charlie was asking him about the pressures of fame as if it were something that concerned him from day to day . |
| 11 | So if we 'd have just carried on the way that was going , I mean , that got it from ninety thousand in just over a year to , to seventy nine thousand in five months . |
| 12 | She persuaded them to invest in ten rolls of wallpaper bought from a corner shop that sold everything from paraffin to knickers . |
| 13 | At last she found the shop belonging to Dai Jones , it was spread well back from the front door , a long dimly lit store that sold everything from flour and salt to patent medicines . |
| 14 | Yet once children were taken into care , and especially if this was by a compulsory route , parents frequently felt ignored and excluded , and there was evidence that they were often left to cope alone with the practical and psychological barriers that divided them from their children . |
| 15 | Something happened that stopped me from going . |
| 16 | It stood , open and scoured , to breathe the air that purified it from any hint of sour milk . |
| 17 | The resemblance could be particularly close if breeders were installing some trait that allowed the crop to thrive in a new habitat , or one that shielded it from parasites or diseases . |
| 18 | The shriek that jerked me from sleep sounded like Lehrathghan harpy-bat . |
| 19 | Apologists wishing to stress the harmony between science and religion may gloss over those facets of Christianity as it was that distinguished it from Christianity as they now wish it to be . |
| 20 | But it was not only the international flavour of Penguin New Writing that distinguished it from other symposia of this kind ; Lehmann also had an active interest in the visual arts , and in particular promoted the neo-romantics . |
| 21 | Camberwell did not have a major industry that distinguished it from other London districts , but it offered sufficient variety of employment to engage a majority of the workforce ; other breadwinners did not have to go far to reach central London . |
| 22 | During the dramatic climatic fluctuations of the last ice age — warm to cold to warm repeated several times — the flowering plants acted as thermometers for the climate , sensitive recorders of the shifts that affected everything from beetles to man . |
| 23 | It may have been the horse that roused me from my sleep . |
| 24 | Mezzadri , a Swiss coming back from a knee injury that dropped him from No 26 to 305 in the rankings in 1989 , overpowered Korda with a steady flow of crushing forehands and big serves . |
| 25 | The decision lifts restrictions that were placed by the court on the tiny company several months ago that forbade it from distributing advance copies of BSD/386 code for beta testing , or production software . |
| 26 | On the way , sitting in the back of the Bentley that drove them from London , the two worried sisters spoke little . |
| 27 | My definition of harmful treatment would embrace not just treatment that exposed me to risk without any hope of compensating benefit but treatment of unproved efficacy that diverted me from having other treatments that were of proved value . |
| 28 | Her safety-valve , the thing that prevented her from going round the bend , was the fun of devising and dishing out these splendid punishments , and the lovely thing was that they seemed to work , at any rate for short periods . |
| 29 | There seemed to be a blankness in her that prevented her from going any further ; a momentary spark that said , But wait … and then said nothing more . |
| 30 | Before this experience , several barriers to worship were present that prevented me from entering fully into the presence of the Father and into the inheritance that Paul expresses so movingly in Ephesians 1 . |