Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] from [noun sg] " 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 | He rushed forward to the battery box , loosened the terminal caps and moved them from side to side . |
| 3 | The shriek that jerked me from sleep sounded like Lehrathghan harpy-bat . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was also a pleasant parish , and the vicar 's wife was very kind to Anna and shielded her from exploitation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ … 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 . ’ |
| 13 | Any defilement disqualified them from contact with the holy things . |
| 14 | It was only a week later , with the district still in the iron grip of winter , that my bedside phone jangled me from slumber . |
| 15 | The Law prevented them from helping . |
| 16 | In 1978 fog at Heathrow airport prevented me from flying to referee the first ever game between France and Russia , and in 1981 a leg injury picked up in the First Test prevented me refereeing the Second Test between France and New Zealand . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Ion Iliescu in particular became the focal point of demonstrators who claimed that his communist past disqualified him from office and that nothing short of a total purge of communists from all positions of responsibility would cleanse society of the effects of 40 years of dictatorship . |
| 19 | He tightened his finger on the trigger but again the fragile , defenceless beauty of the deer prevented him from firing and he lowered his rifle immediately . |
| 20 | Was it some insensitivity in his nature that had failed to respond to the nuances of the relationship , some obtuseness of perception that had prevented him from seeing , as it still prevented him from understanding ? |
| 21 | As he thought of this he grasped on to it with relief for it seemed to give him a reason to do nothing , though in his heart he knew it was fear , not duty , that prevented him from flying . |
| 22 | For the carnival the barrow was filled with vegetables and two wire half hoops straddled it from front to back and side to side , these were beautifully decorated with flowers by my sisters and the wheelbarrow really did look effective . |
| 23 | An architect by profession , he took six months off work to help the builders make the house habitable , and then he and Anne painted it from top to bottom in a vibrant range of colour schemes , theirs is the tonic to take : the narrow winding staircase is an orangey red , the kitchen a pale blue , the living room a shade of yellow , the conservatory woodwork a blue-green , and so on . |
| 24 | If bad weather prevented it from hunting at these times it would starve . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He opened the door to a large room completely bare except for a vast trestle-table that filled it from wall to wall . |
| 27 | I made you from oak . |
| 28 | They turned and watched me until a shoulder on their side of the small ravine hid them from view . |
| 29 | When he fetched me from hospital after my baby died , we drove home in the dark . |
| 30 | Mr Evans , of Inverurie , near Aberdeen , said that Mr Browning telephoned him from South Wales on the evening of 18 June last year to say he wanted to visit . |