Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I got Peggy up from Somerset , on the same farm you see , and that was much better , and erm we 've been cycling to Stroud , to the pictures you know , 8 miles there and 8 miles back , and erm but the awful job he gave me to do for a few days was along , there was a young lad there and he was going to drive the old heavy fords and tractor and I was going to walk behind , and he 'd got converted horse drags I suppose they call them |
| 2 | Mr Darby himself , a professionally miserable man in his late sixties , handed Billykins down from the car and into the chapel and , as the mourners crowded in after her , as politely unaggressive as only mourners can be , there was a real , though muted feeling of loss in the air . |
| 3 | It may indeed have been the news from Thasos which turned Kimon back from seeking further conquests after the Eurymedon victory . |
| 4 | He ordered Trent back from the handhold on the companionway so that he was safely out of range while untying the rope . |
| 5 | He was barely inside his own grounds before Nora urged Fontana out from behind the cedar . |
| 6 | Hick pulled England around from 58 for four , and then 118 for six , to the comparative riches of 239 for seven . |
| 7 | Afterwards he went to Downing Street where he called Asquith out from dinner and asked him if he would serve under him . |
| 8 | A minute later Peterborough full back Noel Luke brought Hendrie down from behind . |
| 9 | I took Venturous out from Gravesend early next morning and managed to land a party on the Towers with my No.1 , Mike Carsley , in charge . |
| 10 | Poor passing gave Cardiff several reprieves , but something had to give and in the 15th minute , Julian Williams sent Lewis over from a five-yard scrum , Stephens adding the conversion . |
| 11 | Poor passing gave Cardiff several reprieves , but something had to give and in the 15th minute , Julian Williams sent Lewis over from a five-yard scrum , Stephens adding the conversion . |
| 12 | The wind and the rain , and the hollow reverberation of the storm brought Rohmer back from his reverie . |
| 13 | King Charles VII won Bayonne back from the foreigners in 1451 after a siege and , if a plaque set up in the cathedral has it right , with a little supernatural help . |
| 14 | ‘ His underlying motive is that he wants to change the world , not so he can manage it , but so that he can make it a different place , ’ explains Charles Handy , who picked Gould out from a handful of students at the London Business School ‘ because he stood out in a group of people as by far the most interesting , and that was because he was determined to have control over his life ’ . |