Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] from [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm I mean it 's interesting the lessons that Queenie learnt — the lesson that I learnt from French local government is that erm the French believe in local government , and they put their money where their mouth is . |
| 2 | I retreated from this scintillating conversation and helped Oliver and Cathy clear up in the kitchen , and shortly before eleven we slid to a halt in the port that was halfway across Canada on some rails parallel with but a little removed from the station buildings . |
| 3 | In the quest for solid ground , I struggled from one parallel route to another until I was stuck , north of them all . |
| 4 | With nervous steps , I crossed from one slippery wet boulder to the next whilst the water swirled and gurgled beneath . |
| 5 | Three quarters of them came from three major US cities and 95% were gay men . |
| 6 | Everyone suffered from that daily and prolonged exposure to a Baldersdale winter — swollen faces and aching joints were commonplace . |
| 7 | We began by exploring her beliefs about relationships with men , which came from two main sources . |
| 8 | The government in the 1930s saw the BUF as a nuisance which needed to be watched , but which was felt to have little impact on wider society and which suffered from grave internal weaknesses . |
| 9 | Other shares on the move today included Rolls Royce which benefited from continued overseas demand and British Steel which rose on news of a major contract with Iran . |
| 10 | He was an Afghan who bemused Robert Graves , and in this book must be regarded as a bee which escaped from that capacious bonnet ; his Kabul cousins thought him a figure of pure comedy . |
| 11 | And the railway made it worth while for us , who can now read the letters which resulted from that prolonged erotic oscillation . |
| 12 | It 's a story , Baptiste declared : she got from some stupid women 's magazine or other . |
| 13 | There is no shortage of examples of defendants in rape cases who assumed that a woman who said no really meant yes , or who inferred from other supposed clues ( make-up , clothing , accepting a drink ) that the victim had consented , despite her apparent protests . |
| 14 | Although somewhat less in individuals who suffered from full-blown manic-depressive psychosis , creativity was found to be significantly raised in both patients and relatives who were rated as cyclothymic . |
| 15 | The tweedy lady , very county , who suffered from some extreme fungoid disease of her feet , which were wrapped in many layers of polythene and which in a public cinema would have guaranteed her a whole row to herself , but at the NFT caused whoever was unfortunate to have the adjoining numbered seat to retain vivid Aromavision memories of particular films . |
| 16 | When you said you came from good tough stock it made me shiver a bit . |
| 17 | ‘ You ca n't tell me you acted from any other motives than lust and greed , ’ he announced firmly when she stopped speaking . |
| 18 | It flicked each in turn , making the plump moons bounce as she flinched from each sharp little sting . |
| 19 | A better balance than elsewhere between industry and agriculture was the advantage she derived from slower industrial growth ; she also owed to it some of her resilience and powers of recovery after two world wars . |
| 20 | The Futurists , on the other hand , were men who started from violent ideological principles of their own but looked to Cubism for guidance as to how they could best express themselves . |
| 21 | Enya claims to be stubborn , sulky and contrary where her composition is concerned , but she knew from unfortunate personal experience the natural anarchy and entropy of bands and very rationally allowed Nicky and Roma 's professional advice to guide her in the right direction . |
| 22 | Back in the house , she went from one ordinary object to the next , chairs , tables , bookcases , touching and leaning against them as if for help . |
| 23 | Renewed tears flowing , dirty hands in dirty pockets , she ran from that terrible , disloyal little hen — ran as fast as she could to find Anderson , with his promise of comfort and sound advice . |
| 24 | She shifted from one plimsolled foot to the other and he said , encouragingly , ‘ What is it , darling ? ’ |
| 25 | He was killed by one of two men who jumped from this Blue Ford Sierra Estate car . |
| 26 | As they moved from one high-ceilinged panelled room to the next , signs of disorder and decay met them at each open door . |
| 27 | New labourers came out , many from Ireland where pressure on land was unusually severe ; they came from southern Irish ports , so they could not have been directly affected by the English conquest and the Scottish settlement of Ulster at the beginning of the seventeenth century , but possibly Irish landlords felt that it no longer made sense to keep up private armies and turned men out of service for this reason . |
| 28 | He knew that they came from two different worlds , but still nothing would deter him . |
| 29 | She knew that junior deacons in their second curacies , even if they came from distinguished clerical families , were not expected to make contributions uninvited when in the presence of very senior clergy . |
| 30 | They suffered from fluctuating cash-crop prices , shortages of inputs such as fertilisers and the deterioration of collectively-managed resources . |