Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernard Coard 's How the West Indian Child is made Educationally Sub-Normal in the British School System ( 1971 ) had already given concrete expression to many black parents ' justified fears that their children were being systematically mis-classified as educationally subnormal and relegated to a ‘ special ’ education which effectively excluded them from any possibility of acquiring decent qualifications . |
| 2 | The plea or defence to this was that the notes were made jointly and severally by the defendant 's father , John Revill , and by Samuel Revill , as well as by the defendant , and that before the action the plaintiff , without the defendant 's knowledge or consent , struck out the name of Samuel Revill on the notes and wholly discharged him from liability . |
| 3 | ‘ I only got it from Lewens for fifteen ! ’ |
| 4 | The bills came on the morning of the burial , and he suddenly drew them from his pocket during the service , opening them without knowing what he was doing . |
| 5 | But then , as I have argued earlier , there was nothing in the basic assumptions of classicism that necessarily prevented it from being equally critical . |
| 6 | ( c ) There was an additional reason for considering that there was no infringement of article 52 : the criterion of the owner 's nationality did not prevent nationals of other member states from establishing themselves in the United Kingdom to operate fishing vessels — it only prevented them from doing so under the British flag . |
| 7 | They set out towards the west , taking their direction from the sun , but the density of thorn thickets constantly drove them from their line . |
| 8 | Our clothes , living space and total environment all separated us from the outer world . |
| 9 | I used to watch him sleep , wondering what bloody crimes lay in his past , and knowing that I alone protected him from a horrible death . |
| 10 | Edward Jenner was himself a keen inoculator , but he was impressed by the apparently safer prophylactic effects of the mild natural disease of cowpox ; a zoonosis often caught by milkmaids which apparently protected them from smallpox , as he demonstrated in his paper of 1798 . |
| 11 | It did n't had n't got they did n't have four posts at this time , they hung the top part of the bed , literally hung it from cords wrapped round rafters . |
| 12 | Jo Richardson , though replying on behalf of the NEC , pointedly distanced herself from its stand . |
| 13 | Elizabeth Woodville sat up and gently disengaged herself from her sleeping son . |
| 14 | She did n't go so far as to give me her telephone number , but I prudently copied it from the instrument at a point during the interview when she was distracted : when one of Brenda 's children had somehow slipped into the room to find a drum stacked halfway down a pile of similar toys . |
| 15 | And she suddenly knew her from somewhere . |
| 16 | On the other hand , you know all there is to be known about me : born Bigley Road , Grays , in Essex , twenty-six years old , wife Alice … who says if she had met you afore me I would n't have had a look-in — and she only saw you from a distance . ’ |
| 17 | This part of the camp was in itself no more attractive than the part in which we lived , but the very fact that we did not live there , that we did not know every inch of its dusty ground , that normally we only saw it from the distance , gave it a charm of its own . |
| 18 | So Alexander worked out a technique that not only freed him from the tendency which was at the bottom of his vocal troubles , but also cured his asthma from which he had suffered from birth . |
| 19 | The mummy tripped over his legs , and only saved himself from falling by grabbing one of the row of dangling blackjacks above the seats . |
| 20 | I only saved myself from falling by clutching at the arm of the oak settle . |
| 21 | At a very early stage the apostle Paul was confronted by opposed parties , the one contending that the freedom of the Spirit so emancipated them from social convention that they could act as they pleased , especially in sexual indulgence , the other with more plausibility holding that the life of the Spirit required renunciation of marriage . |
| 22 | So did one from Balfour , written from a sickbed in Carlton Gardens . |
| 23 | They only had them from |
| 24 | She skilfully prevented him from slipping the crime prevention leaflet in at the bottom of the pile . |
| 25 | This effectively prevented them from interfering in matters of state , or fomenting rebellion . |
| 26 | It effectively prevented him from working for another insurance company during that period . |
| 27 | Shame I already got it from Cowley . |
| 28 | What finally propelled him from his Cabinet seat on 9 January was the promulgation of a new and improvised Cabinet convention by Mrs Thatcher — that all future ministerial statements on the future of Westland would have to be cleared by the Cabinet Office . |
| 29 | Er so whether I unconsciously got it from there , I , I do n't really know , I may have done . |
| 30 | Another superb serve led to no more than a defensive return from Sampras and Forget was so confident that the American would not be able to return his first volley that he only just stopped himself from throwing his racket into the air as he started to dance for joy along with the crowd . |