Example sentences of "[vb past] from an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On yesterday 's new grey market , the shares rose from an issue price of 585p to 612p . |
| 2 | Ten miles distant , Sandweg church loomed into view ; it rose from an ocean of grain like a vast liner in the doldrums . |
| 3 | These ranged from an increase in severance compensation to almost £20,000 , an offer of secondment to industry on full salary , an opportunity for a search across the university for posts at senior lecturer level , and an offer of meeting the full cost of training for an alternative career . |
| 4 | Her imagination promptly sped through a catalogue of punishments which ranged from an hour in the stocks to a beating . |
| 5 | When he changed from an acoustic to an electric guitar so overloaded that it made the windows of the little studios rattle , you could still sometimes hear his feet rapping on the boards and the irregular chord sequences and the trademark himmahimmahimm drifting through the air . |
| 6 | She only changed from an ultra-leftist to an ultra-rightist . |
| 7 | Sometimes it was quantitatively inadequate , but more often it suffered from an excess of conflicting signs and signposts . |
| 8 | She suffered from an excess of exact imagination . |
| 9 | Unlike both his younger brother and sister , who clearly suffered from an inability to form stable ties with other people and seemed to depend on the bottle to bolster their self-assurance , Valentin 's reputation was almost that of a good prince in a fairy-tale . |
| 10 | One of the most telling strands in the antiracist critique of multiculturalism in the 1970s and 1980s , for example , was that it suffered from an overemphasis on culture . |
| 11 | These clothes were got from a pawnshop in Kendal ; the rouge came from an acquaintance of Mrs Charlotte Deans , the actress ; the chaise was loaned us by a young friend of mine whose father owns the chief coaching firm in the town . |
| 12 | In the first half of the nineteenth century it was generally believed the menstrual flow came from an excess of nutrients in the female . |
| 13 | Rumours circulating recently suggesting a ‘ super route ’ had been climbed in Twll Mawr ( Dinorwig Quarries ) proved to be untrue , and the chalk spotted on Johnny Dawes ' bold route The Indian Face ( Cloggy ) , still unrepeated , came from an inspection by a local activism , who decided discretion was better than a serious scuffing ! |
| 14 | The calls , which were in an exceptionally rough and harsh voice , came from an eagle in the cage beyond the one from which the old female had spoken in the night . |
| 15 | The idea for Mo' Money came from an experience Damon had when he was in his early twenties and working in the postroom at a credit card company . |
| 16 | Spooner 's idea came from an invitation by his actor-neighbour , Jim Dale , to visit the set of the latest Carry On … film at Pinewood — which just happened to be Carry On Cleo . |
| 17 | The reply came from an under-secretary who said that the present funding was considered adequate and the commercial undertaking would be ill-advised . |
| 18 | The highest quote came from an Alfa Romeo main dealer . |
| 19 | But the most striking evidence came from an Oriel Eight out training . |
| 20 | The challenge on this occasion came from an opposition grouping known tentatively as the Democratic Party , based around those members of the RDP who had chosen not to join the DLP . |
| 21 | In part , these European studies came from an extension of Humboldt 's approach to distribution . |
| 22 | How nastily inventive of Terry Porter to say Ruth came from an egg . |
| 23 | He came from an authority which put the service out to compulsory competitive tender some time ago . |
| 24 | Corroboration came from an analysis of the details of cloacal pecking . |
| 25 | And , in part , their power came from an understanding that they were not as other men . |
| 26 | He passed the barred windows of Edwin 's studio ; the only light in the building came from an upstairs room , the living-room , where Beryl was almost certainly sitting and brooding alone . |
| 27 | The unskilled or raw immigrants from the countryside were proud of their strength , and came from an environment where hard labour was the criterion of a person 's worth and wives were chosen not for their looks but for their work-potential . |
| 28 | Others require further information to complete the story — for example , the brougham which came from an estate near Stow in the Borders , but when and which estate ? |
| 29 | and th you know they came from an arts background fine you know |
| 30 | I think these games , as well as the trains , boats , and airplanes , came from an urge to know how things worked and to control them . |