Example sentences of "[vb past] from [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benedict rose from his own chair so hastily that it almost tipped over . |
| 2 | Transport was scarce and we had to carry special identity cards when we moved from our own villages . |
| 3 | When I moved from my own place er in Walmgate to here I still underestimated how much furniture I 'd got . |
| 4 | Che Guevara , whose analysis stemmed from his own experiences in Guatemala in 1954 ( Hodges : 1977 , pp. 15–16 ) , said , in an interview given on 18 April 1959 : |
| 5 | If in order to get to the root of it Eliot consulted a Viennese expert , the result was not evidently a cure , because I believe he suffered from it all his life : but the consultation , if that was what it was , may have benefited him by disclosure — ‘ the luxury of an intimate disclosure to a stranger ’ . |
| 6 | A ferocious , unwashed , animal reek came from them both ; in addition , Finn stank of paint and turps on top of the poverty-stricken , slum smell . |
| 7 | This had several squares of very heavy , dark grey woollen cloth which Mum told me came from her own great grandmother 's cloak , so presumably could well have dated back to the eighteenth century . |
| 8 | The coat and the lipstick came from her own work . |
| 9 | Brian came from her own home town , though she had not known him there : this had some significance , both acknowledged , though Liz could not have said what it was . |
| 10 | She heard a sound and realised it came from her own throat . |
| 11 | Perhaps that came from his own experience of human love — we do n't really know . |
| 12 | He saw an arc of blood , and knew that it came from his own neck . |
| 13 | Thomas May 's earlier assumption would have been a perfectly natural one had he been dealing with a museum collection , but here at Templebrough , the sherds came from his own excavation , and the only conclusion to be drawn is that he had very little conception of the significance of stratified deposits . |
| 14 | Thereafter the sees were filled ; Sidonius himself returned to Clermont , where the chief opposition to him came from his own clergy . |
| 15 | And do n't pretend it was a lie ; it came from your own sodding embassy … ’ |
| 16 | We came from our own country in a red room |
| 17 | She was in turn confused , amused , horrified by the things she read — and sometimes had that closer reaction , recognition of something suddenly true something she absolutely identified from her own experience , but had never put a name to . |
| 18 | ‘ Had my wife — her grandmother — been alive when Rose was orphaned she would have given her what she needed — and never received from her own mother — stability — a moral code . ’ |
| 19 | Pausing just long enough to sweep the old man 's triumphant face with an antagonistic look , Beth turned from them both and went , head high , out of the room and into the hallway , where the late March sunshine found its way through the tall arched windows , and where the air seemed relatively fresh compared to the musty damp smell of the old man 's den . |
| 20 | While these buildings often shared with Wren 's London churches a basic classical design , they fundamentally differed from them both in their smaller scale and greater simplicity . |
| 21 | During the last half of 1960 , the Soviet leaders — perhaps conscious of having over-reached themselves in political terms , retreated from their former position as staunch defenders of the Cuban revolution , and adopted a far more equivocal tone . |
| 22 | These are only slightly smaller than the values we obtained from our own data . |
| 23 | One of the boarders was a clergyman , the Reverend Baron from Cheshire , and he , finding her at every turn with the Bible open , praised her devotion , which released from her such loud protestations of her unworthiness that he was stopped in his tracks . |
| 24 | Our experience of the way modern states exert control , restrict expression , manipulate language , has prompted us to search the past to see what similarities and differences existed from our own experience . |
| 25 | And then he suddenly said , in a more natural tone , in an everyday tone that she rarely heard from him these days , ‘ And anyway , I thought it would n't matter to anyone , now the children are grown up . ’ |
| 26 | And , as you heard from her own mouth on the telephone this morning , she is fine , though she refuses to come home to you and your wife . ’ |
| 27 | Has he forgotten , within the past hour and a half , the belly laughs that he got from his own Back Benchers with his stories of social security fraud ? |
| 28 | The dullness she had felt in her exhaustion became a kind of sickness now , as for the second time that day she once again flew from her own body and split into two . |
| 29 | We can observe that she is happy only when she is furious , and do not need to have it suggested that her earlier nickname of ‘ Thatcher Milk-Snatcher ’ derived from her own breast-deprivation , which denies her all happiness and allows her ‘ only the sadistic triumphs of tawdry political and military victories . ’ |
| 30 | At home , the Japanese government has spearheaded a campaign to discredit reports that originated from its own news agency , Kyodo . |