Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plea or defence to this was that the notes were made jointly and severally by the defendant 's father , John Revill , and by Samuel Revill , as well as by the defendant , and that before the action the plaintiff , without the defendant 's knowledge or consent , struck out the name of Samuel Revill on the notes and wholly discharged him from liability . |
| 2 | Lazarus 's business ambitions soon elevated him from storeman to lumber merchant , thence to a partnership in the coal industry which became his sole business — L. Cohen and Son — after a few years , and hence to a high-profile dredging company which could boast that it had kept every one of the lifelines of the young nation — the St. Lawrence tributaries between Lake Ontario and Quebec — open . |
| 3 | INTREPID Peter Bottomley , former scourge of the dozy British motorist , has not abandoned his life 's work just because Her Indoors shunted him from Transport to Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | You know he just bought them from sale or whatever it was , sixty , seventy quid bit of polish . |
| 5 | We went all over town , looked at rock stars and actors , but Val just had it from day one . |
| 6 | Was it some insensitivity in his nature that had failed to respond to the nuances of the relationship , some obtuseness of perception that had prevented him from seeing , as it still prevented him from understanding ? |