Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An added factor of uncertainty also arose from election petitions filed in the Supreme Court against 11 of the successful candidates . |
| 2 | ‘ Pole is important , even if the statistics show that no more than 50 per cent of the winners here started from pole in the last 10 years , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Alexia Lindsay says that most of the ephemera money just came from guide books and maps ; illustrated theatre and concert programmes ; and leaflets , all ephemeral things , apparently of no intrinsic value , but ‘ printed collectibles ’ as they are now called – and spelt ! |
| 4 | Potatoes originally came from South America . |
| 5 | As the fervour of the Cultural Revolution wound down , Chen too fell from favour , losing , it would seem , even Mao 's confidence . |
| 6 | Police believe British spy Ian Spiro cold-bloodedly walked from bedroom to bedroom and murdered them . |
| 7 | The problems mostly arose from lack of capital and only in a few cases had any action been taken — two had recently purchased houses in nearby villages for their sons and some had been able to purchase or rent some more land . |
| 8 | One boy called Haile Nehari actually escaped from prison — he had been put there after his sling-shot aimed at a pigeon hit an Ethiopian soldier instead . |
| 9 | Lynette originally came from South Wales . |
| 10 | However , the idea that archive work might be used in the training of embryo diplomats still surfaced from time to time in France . |
| 11 | Instantly familiar ( and , some would claim , too much soin opera these days ) is the white box set perched on a floor steeply raked from left to right , under which coffins are piled in increasing numbers as the work unfolds . |
| 12 | Ten per cent of its finances still came from government sources in the early sixties . |
| 13 | Erich Kleiber also reappeared from South America . |
| 14 | The signalman guffawed at his own punchline then disappeared from view , closing the window after him . |
| 15 | Letters from the States had been few and far between of late , although money from Sean still came from time to time . |
| 16 | FDR also suffered from paralysis and tried to deceive the public that he could still walk . |
| 17 | The crucial innings then came from King , who hammered 50 off 39 balls to help the score to 196 ; England needed 260 to win , with time not a problem . |
| 18 | The 148 New Democracy deputies accordingly abstained from voting and , with only 151 members voting in his favour ( 128 Pasok , 21 Left Coalition and two others ) Sartzetakis failed to win the required two-thirds of the vote . |
| 19 | Louis de Broglie also tried from time to time throughout his later life to find ways of reconciling quantum mechanics with a more deterministic picture . |
| 20 | In contrast , antral tumours mainly arose from mucosa showing the changes of chronic active gastritis . |
| 21 | The story of the Lionheart 's narrow escape was told by William Marshal himself and since William never suffered from modesty it may have been improved in the telling . |
| 22 | Ingrid soon discovered from Ilse that the two waitresses had been supplementing their wages by selling sex . |
| 23 | Clare almost fainted from surprise and anxiety , horror and shame . |