Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they strolled deeper into the gardens she became aware that the Pantominteatret was by no means the only form of free entertainment , as their progress led them from one area of performance to another . |
| 2 | Evesham drew them from several Cotswold parishes ; the abbot of Owston received 2 marks a year from Tickencote . |
| 3 | Her confident reply dissuaded him from further questions along this line . |
| 4 | Nationalist protestors from Kurdzhali arrived in Sofia ( the capital ) on Jan. 3 to petition the National Assembly , their numbers swelling on the following day to around 10,000 as supporters joined them from several parts of the country . |
| 5 | The project of a road connecting the Cariboo gold-fields to the coast occupied him from 1862 . |
| 6 | In January 1950 Averell Harriman , a man whose international experience distinguished him from many of the more parochial critics , protested that the British chancellor of the exchequer 's narrow economic vision was sabotaging Western European integration . |
| 7 | Dillons passed the cheque onto Childline after its parent Pentos received it from Legal & General Property as a token of thanks after it moved quickly to open branches of Claude Gill Bargain Bookshop and Athena in the Buttermarket Shopping Centre , Ipswich , in time for the centre 's first day of trading on 1st October . |
| 8 | On the positive side , his inheritance freed him from financial constraints and so he decided to settle in England , setting up house in London at Carlton Terrace , an event which led Disraeli to write somewhat mockingly : ‘ … |
| 9 | Their exploitation of this recently opened path aroused jealousy among the knights , one of whom refused to answer a charge levelled against him by the Erembalds in the court of Charles the Good , on the ground that his accusers ' lowly social origins barred them from comital justice . |
| 10 | Her sigh of exasperation reached him from 3,000 miles away . |
| 11 | She almost flinched , but somehow her pride rescued her from that , although she felt as though he 'd stuck a knife in her heart and started to revolve it . |
| 12 | There were indeed some who shook their heads and moaned , but on the whole buoyancy , bullishness and general enthusiasm hit me from all sides . |
| 13 | She was n't where Juliet got it from either . |
| 14 | Often only the absence of sabres and bullets differentiated it from full-scale war . |
| 15 | A pensioner 's training in the SAS saved him from serious injury when two men attacked him with a knife . |
| 16 | Theo distracted him from this gloomy conclusion by springing a surprise on him . |
| 17 | She knew how to listen with active goodwill , while at the same time her sceptical and meditative temperament saved her from any impulse to change or manipulate clients . |
| 18 | His health prevented him from active service in World War I but from 1916 he worked in the war trade intelligence department and in Admiralty research . |
| 19 | It recorded the main events of his life , and modern scholarship has in the main verified it from independent documentary sources as well as from Rolle 's own writings . |
| 20 | Sir William Douglas captured it from one of Edward Balliol 's English supporters , though he himself was later to join the English cause . |
| 21 | The General Strike in no way deflected it from that course and it is difficult to see that event as an historical watershed in the evolution of trade union policies and attitudes . |
| 22 | Only its solidity and quality of construction saved it from total destruction . |
| 23 | His blue UN passport rescued him from many frightening situations , including the occasion armed guerillas surrounded his jeep in a warring Central American country . |
| 24 | It was fortunate , Isabel decided , that the screen shielded her from curious eyes as she changed her shift . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , facing Mrs Bottomley reduced me from passionate eloquence to an inarticulate oaf , and my opportunity was lost . |
| 26 | I mean , the Sex Pistols took it from The Stooges , the Stones took it from Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker , and the Beatles … |
| 27 | Beatty remembered him from three years before , when Hackman had a small but impressive scene in Lilith , Robert Rossen 's final film , which starred Beatty . |