Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Linda recognised her from the previous day at school . |
| 2 | While artisans certainly had better opportunities than had most of the lower orders , it is probably unwise to insist that a very wide behavioural gap separated them from the " crowd " , at least until the last years of the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | Leaves danced curlicues on the pavement as the wind ripped them from the plane trees and sent them scurrying along the ground . |
| 4 | The wide , dry eyes followed them from the kitchen as they took their leave . |
| 5 | Captain Meredith observed her from the open door , as did Miss Jarman . |
| 6 | As the Dwarfs moved south Goblins watched them from the hills , reporting their movements by means of oily smoke signals and throbbing war drums . |
| 7 | Eyes watched her from the thorn woods . |
| 8 | He struggled into his overcoat which Antony brought him from the hall . |
| 9 | Millie remembered it from the previous evening . |
| 10 | I endeavoured to paint a picture of this scene , but again and again legions of midges drove me from the spot : I got a phial of essence supposed to keep them away , but alas ! in vain . |
| 11 | Staff from the general practices collected their vaccines from the central office , while health clinics received theirs from the district 's transport service . |
| 12 | Young 's lifetime passion for the large molluscs led him from the squid to the octopus . |
| 13 | Alice Fell was such a stumbling-block that Wordsworth withdrew it from the 1820 edition of his poems . |
| 14 | Anna reached the door and as she fumbled for the latch , Melody opened it from the other side . |
| 15 | Rachaela watched her from the kitchen window of the flat . |
| 16 | Getting to her feet , Rachaela saw her from the window , dawdling off along the road towards school . |
| 17 | Hugh liked him from the first ; and so do I like him , I like him very well . |
| 18 | The judges extrapolated it from the fact that constables hold office under the Crown and are sworn to keep the peace . |
| 19 | Screens of holly and ivy sheltered her from the deepening winter , but now the forest became a black and frozen place . |
| 20 | A shower of jeers greeted him from the queue and , as he passed the last boy , who was just out of sight of Mr Gillis , a foot shot out , caught him on the ankle and down he went , sprawling on the wooden floor . |
| 21 | When Mr Heath sacked him from the Shadow Cabinet in 1968 after he had paraphrased Virgil 's Aeneid and with foreboding claimed to see ‘ the River Tiber foaming with much blood ’ he began a journey into the wilderness . |
| 22 | He dreamt that Lucie threw him from the parapet of a bridge into deep water , with a stone statue of Garvey tied round his neck . |
| 23 | The rye hid him from the French rankers , and only those officers on horseback could see the Rifleman over the tall crop . |
| 24 | The barmaid led them from the bar and up some rickety steps . |
| 25 | Another band encircled him from the left , two massive arms had him from behind , his feet were lifted from the ground . |
| 26 | His manager Alan McColm said : ‘ Martin phoned me from the airport to say what had happened and he was furious . |
| 27 | The marquis lifted her from the saddle , feeling the warmth of her body against his own , wishing he could go on holding her for ever . |
| 28 | Graham recognised them from the Art School ; they were talking and laughing . |
| 29 | The growth of Sunk Island is intimately linked with the Gylby family who , for almost 200 years leased it from the Crown , embanking it as it increased in size . |
| 30 | Graham called her from the School that day , found her in . |