Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] from [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benedict rose from his own chair so hastily that it almost tipped over . |
| 2 | While all this went on , the parents sat around on the school 's battered garden furniture , the mothers watching each other warily , the fathers armoured in a remote mildness that Robert recognized from his own parent . |
| 3 | Brian came from her own home town , though she had not known him there : this had some significance , both acknowledged , though Liz could not have said what it was . |
| 4 | Pausing just long enough to sweep the old man 's triumphant face with an antagonistic look , Beth turned from them both and went , head high , out of the room and into the hallway , where the late March sunshine found its way through the tall arched windows , and where the air seemed relatively fresh compared to the musty damp smell of the old man 's den . |
| 5 | Our experience of the way modern states exert control , restrict expression , manipulate language , has prompted us to search the past to see what similarities and differences existed from our own experience . |
| 6 | The unique Medau teaching style evolved from his own essential observations . |
| 7 | Che Guevara , whose analysis stemmed from his own experiences in Guatemala in 1954 ( Hodges : 1977 , pp. 15–16 ) , said , in an interview given on 18 April 1959 : |
| 8 | Thomas May 's earlier assumption would have been a perfectly natural one had he been dealing with a museum collection , but here at Templebrough , the sherds came from his own excavation , and the only conclusion to be drawn is that he had very little conception of the significance of stratified deposits . |
| 9 | Eliot 's preoccupations with the ‘ historical sense ’ and cultural transmission grew from his own upbringing , but the particular stress on language was an important theme in the anthropology he read . |
| 10 | A ferocious , unwashed , animal reek came from them both ; in addition , Finn stank of paint and turps on top of the poverty-stricken , slum smell . |
| 11 | Lambert learned from them both , steepened his angle , and left everything a fraction later . |
| 12 | The coat and the lipstick came from her own work . |
| 13 | Much of this agony Eliot imported from his own sufferings , though , as usual , these are transmuted through his reading . |