Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | AT LEAST two people were killed and 80 injured when a car bomb exploded in the heart of the City of London last night in a suspected IRA attack timed to detract from the Tory General Election victory celebrations . |
| 2 | By December the same year ( Lois Rosow notes ) ‘ the inspecteurs [ Francoeur and Rebel ] , apparently weary of the Querelle des Bouffons , asked to retire from the Opéra . ’ |
| 3 | Next month he planned to retire from the army , but says he could n't resist this call to duty . |
| 4 | That the Rev. C. G. Hamilton having at the suggestion of the Governors agreed to retire from the Headmastership on a pension , the Governors beg respectfully to suggest £150 per annum as such pension , and ask the advice of the Charity Commissioners on the subject . " |
| 5 | The first decree was issued in 1972 by the military regime in alliance with the local bourgeoisie , who clearly expected to benefit from the initiative . |
| 6 | He had been beaten , threatened with knee-capping , burned on the neck with a cigarette and invited to jump from the open door of the speeding vehicle during the journey to the quarry at Furnace on Loch Fyne . |
| 7 | If I were to die , she thought , there is nobody to find me , perhaps for days and weeks , for we do not have visitors , and my mother would die too , of fright or starvation or a broken limb , after her voice gave out in screaming , and she tried to struggle from the bed . |
| 8 | Fashanu , included in the squad for today 's boxing day clash with Wimbledon 's Selhurst Park landlords , Crystal Palace , last night promised to lead from the front in the club 's fight against relegation . |
| 9 | They became , in a sense , a captive labour force ; those who tried to escape from the land to neighbouring towns could be forcibly returned or punished . |
| 10 | ‘ They sent him to Australia for life , because he tried to escape from the prison-ship . ’ |
| 11 | Peter desperately tried to scramble from the wreckage , fearing the car would burst into flames . |
| 12 | Emma tried to run from the falling post , which weighed 120lb , but tripped and fell . |
| 13 | In an effort to salvage the protocol , other delegates have put together a counterproposal requiring any country that decided to mine under the terms the US proposed to withdraw from the entire environmental protocol and not just the mining clause . |
| 14 | Ben Bellaser was best man , of course , ‘ … and had first kiss of the fair bride I helped to save from the grave ’ . |
| 15 | He was hurt as he tried to transfer from the Tayjack rig to the tug Torbay Endeavour off the coast of Sunderland . |
| 16 | Francis might have more to tell of these towns — of their poor and their beggars — whom he tried to raise from the dull misery of want to accept and bless their lot by enjoying poverty and simplicity as great as theirs . |
| 17 | In fact it was rather modernism , as its name implies ( from latin modo , just now , or hodie , today ) , that tried to awake from the nightmare of history , self-consciously setting itself against the past , and rejecting forms of historical understanding . |
| 18 | The day after we tried to telephone from the post office but could not get through to Alassio . |
| 19 | In the immediate post-war period down to the mid-1950s there were endless external difficulties as the economy tried to recover from the strains of the war ; balance-of-payments crises of a severe kind in 1949 , 1951 , and 1955 , often accompanied by pressure on sterling , were endemic . |
| 20 | She had tears in her eyes as she tried to recover from the laughter . |
| 21 | He naturally tried to recover from the steep dive before striking the ground . |
| 22 | He was restrained as he tried to rush from the dock before the judge left the court . |
| 23 | That night , Seb had so much to drink that when he tried to rise from the ground beside the camp-fire to return home his legs felt like rubber and he sat down again unexpectedly . |
| 24 | Unlike the UBR , the Community Charge sought to depart from the old rating system method of calculating local taxes . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , there is not enough evidence to make a coherent account of how Carthaginians and Greeks saw each other in the third and second centuries B.C. and how Rome came to profit from the situation — not least by the importation of an African slave who became the most accomplished of the Hellenized dramatists of Latin literature , Terence . |
| 26 | If Labour suddenly seemed old and unelectable , a real youthful challenge to the Thatcher regime seemed to come from the new Social Democratic Party . |
| 27 | The only glimmer of light she could see at the moment seemed to come from the cheerful faces of the Rafferty children whenever they arrived on the Four Winds doorstep . |
| 28 | Now he heard a low whistling sound which seemed to come from the rear of the box . |
| 29 | The first two nights passed uneventfully , but on the third night , Ted heard the sound of heavy breathing which seemed to come from the armchair . |
| 30 | The voice always seemed to come from the shadows or from somewhere just aside from where he was looking ; and usually the words did n't make any sense , and they passed through his mind so quickly that they 'd gone before he could reach for them . |