Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er in the apprentice we used to have to go round the shops on the town matching their er material in velvets and ribbons and satin for making their hats of , as well as the straw we made them from material as well . |
| 2 | They rooted out those folk who were not … ordinary , and banished them from Minginish. people are afraid of what they can not understand . ’ |
| 3 | Well I 've been , I 've just bought , I bought some on Monday for Laura and I got them from Rascals . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He rushed forward to the battery box , loosened the terminal caps and moved them from side to side . |
| 6 | The shriek that jerked me from sleep sounded like Lehrathghan harpy-bat . |
| 7 | A colleague from Christian Aid phoned me from Addis Ababa last night and he reported what had happened in the Red Sea port of Assab on Saturday which was when 15 trucks and trailers were loaded each with 22 tons of U N grain and there was a little ceremony as they left at 12 noon for Desai . |
| 8 | They phoned me from Mencap again this morning to see if I had any , had any lifting experience |
| 9 | And there , ranged against them too were institutions like the American Negro Academy , formed in 1897 , whose male founders ( Black , lest we forget ) , decided that Black women were not competent for such an intellectual atmosphere , and excluded them from membership . |
| 10 | Weeks later , her boyfriend visited her from Germany . |
| 11 | It was also a pleasant parish , and the vicar 's wife was very kind to Anna and shielded her from exploitation . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His hat-trick was completed seven minutes later when Donnelly found him from midfield , and he made no mistake beating the lonesome figure of Keeley . |
| 14 | ‘ I phoned her from London , ’ Newman said quickly . |
| 15 | He could do it all over again with striker Ken Charlery , who scored 26 goals last season after Turner snatched him from Maidstone for a give-away £20,000 . |
| 16 | He was heading straight into the wind and the force of it buffeted him from side to side until his sense of direction became totally confused . |
| 17 | In 1576 , she insisted that her new Archbishop of Canterbury , Edmund Grindal , should suppress prophesyings , and when he disobeyed and challenged her right as supreme governor to decide on the matter , she suspended him from office . |
| 18 | He took a chestnut from the pan and bounced it from hand to hand as he turned cheerily to enquire after Mrs Frere 's welfare . |
| 19 | The modernization of the Meadowell estate , which transformed it from flats to terraced houses and dramatically reduced the density of occupation , was a consequence of the availability of central government assistance intended to stimulate employment opportunities in the construction industry as a corrective to general problems of unemployment in the early 1970s . |
| 20 | AN EVEN more unlikely winner , Neighbours was bought in from Australia and only took off when Michael Grade moved it from lunch hour to teatime because his daughter , Alison , asked him to . |
| 21 | He expanded the revels office , and moved it from Warwick Inn to the dissolved monastery of Blackfriars , where he himself owned a considerable property . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | cos we called it changed it from Lisa to Anna for mum . |
| 24 | This again indicated whose who lived unconditionally on their own resources and distinguished them from men beholden to someone for their livelihood . |
| 25 | ‘ … I became fretful , & timorous , & a tell-tale — & the School-boys drove me from play , & were always tormenting me — & hence I took no pleasure in boyish sports . ’ |
| 26 | On the way , sitting in the back of the Bentley that drove them from London , the two worried sisters spoke little . |
| 27 | He had intended to go to Lord 's by train — instead his wife Lindsey drove them from Northampton . |
| 28 | Cos I think last time we hired them from Staffordshire and I 'd have thought if they 're going to buy some they will be very happy to hire us them . |
| 29 | He signalled me from Pitt Street and I met him and he gave me the peg [ the notebook entry you both make ] . |
| 30 | Any defilement disqualified them from contact with the holy things . |