Example sentences of "[vb past] from the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was holding a cage in his hands , dredged from the bottom-most depths of the Luggage . |
| 2 | And if some of these assumptions were harsh in their operation they were tempered by a humanitarianism which stemmed from the same eighteenth-century roots . |
| 3 | Quite clearly ‘ neighbourhood ’ representation emanated from the latter group since all active members were home-owners . |
| 4 | As for the women , he said , they suffered from the same sort of things — depression and sometimes guilt . |
| 5 | In this they suffered from the same defects as the streltsy , the small force of regular infantry originally set up during Ivan the Terrible 's reign . |
| 6 | In conclusion , Italy and Sicily suffered from the same divisions and neighbourly jealousies as Old Greece , jealousies made more dangerous by racial friction and the threat of native risings ( cranky philosophical activists did not help ) . |
| 7 | His long nose came from the latter and more specifically from a genetic type unit near the Dead Sea . |
| 8 | His gingery short cropped hair decidedly came from the former . |
| 9 | The criticism came from the former senior chief inspector , Mr. Eric Bolton , who pointed out that , under Labour 's proposals , the inspectorate , instead of advising the Secretary of State directly , would have to rely on the secondment of some senior inspectors . |
| 10 | The warning came from the all party , defence select committee , whose Conservative chairman said the country 's defence capability had already been pared to the bone . |
| 11 | The brilliant specimen is one of the biggest ever boated off South Wales and came from the same mark which yielded Charlie a 33 lb 8 oz cod three years ago . |
| 12 | Most of his senior colleagues , and his predecessor , Marvin Runyon , came from the same stable . |
| 13 | He presumed the noise came from the same motorbike he had seen on his first day at school and he asked Mould about it . |
| 14 | An Armenian whose family came from Erzerum or Kars is neighbour to other Armenians whose parents or grandparents came from the same towns , just as Palestinians from Haifa — or from Mrs Zamzam 's village of Um Al-Farajh — now live in refugee camps next to those whose homes were in the same places , sometimes in the very same streets , in what was Palestine . |
| 15 | Denis wondered sometimes if they came from the same father and mother . |
| 16 | The sample from Wales came from the same locality as the short-eared owl and tawny owl pellet samples , and the kestrel was hunting over much the same area as these species . |
| 17 | Although they spoke German and came from the same backgrounds as their charges , they were often young and inexperienced and unprepared for the demands of the work . |
| 18 | If the fish are obtained from the same area the chances are that they all came from the same parents . |
| 19 | They all came from the same supplier . |
| 20 | Do you find that , as Adrienne Rich wrote of Marie Curie , ‘ her wounds came from the same source as her power ? ’ |
| 21 | So many of them were interrelated or came from the same Sardinian village that all of them , with or without a record , could usually tell him something if they would . |
| 22 | These characteristics very considerably , but similar patterns can be found in several different churches and one can be fairly confident they came from the same workshop . |
| 23 | In a dream a tall thin priest informed him that the two pieces came from the same votive cylinder and had been cut in two to make earrings for a statue of the god Ninib . |
| 24 | Though the group which dominated the executive board of the National Association tended to be drawn from the secularist , radical circles of the metropolis , the women and men who effectively led the repeal movement came from the same provincial backgrounds which sustained many other mid-century reform groups . |
| 25 | ‘ That means you came from the same egg . |
| 26 | As Dulé had never heard his mother tongue , he and his new companions could only surmise , from the similar flare of their nostrils , the high broad set of their shoulders on slender frames , and the deep oval plunge of their chins on thin , round necks , that he came from the same part of the hinterland of West Africa , was of the Iqbo people in his origins . |
| 27 | The general run of shoppers would not believe that the two girls came from the same family . |
| 28 | Most of the farm weights and unofficial weights are of the crude variety ( compared to the loom weights ) but when you add their existence to the three bronze coin weights that also came from the same field something of a picture starts to build up . |
| 29 | 17 passives were produced when actor and acted-upon came from the same class . |
| 30 | And do you think they all came from the same kind of background as yourself or were they more working people ? |