Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] from [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | MacMillan has said from the first announcements that it would be a big company ballet , involving a large cast , and he has provided just that . |
| 2 | And although the Tude has plants in its waters , I am reluctant to believe that any of them are lilies ; for Chalais has suffered from the twentieth century as Aubeterre has not , and the Tude is polluted whereas the Dronne runs clear . |
| 3 | Such is the case of an innocent person into whose pocket a thief , in order to escape detection , inserts a purse which he has stolen from a third person . |
| 4 | BRITAIN 's biggest baker , Ranks Hovis McDougal , has emerged from the first half of 1992 much slimmer . |
| 5 | One remarkable Hellenistic geared mechanism , however , has survived from the first century BC . |
| 6 | He 'd fallen from a second floor window . |
| 7 | They 'd all gone to bed the night before when I 'd returned from a last noggin with Harry . |
| 8 | Two schools later ( his parents having moved house ) the boy was ill , and his then head wrote to the consultant treating him that he ‘ had previously attended two schools , having transferred from the first because of ‘ transitory emotional difficulties ’ ( Ed . |
| 9 | He should have known from the first that the chasm which lay between them would not be so easy to cross . |
| 10 | In successive seasons , he took United from the Third to the Second and into the First Division . |
| 11 | Although mature horses may harbour a few adult worms , heavy burdens are usually confined to yearlings and to foals , which become infected from the first month or so of life , and infection is maintained largely by seasonal transmission between these groups of young animals . |
| 12 | It is the most addictive drug ever — many become addicted from the first time they use it . |
| 13 | She is thought to have fallen from an eighth floor window . |
| 14 | Adjoining Tommy Sparks was yet another pub , the street seemed to be full of them , this one was called The Catherine Wheel , an unusual name believed to have come from the eleventh century Knights of Saint Catherine of Mount Sinai . |
| 15 | In the literature to have survived from the sixth century , however , the legacy of Sidonius is as significant as that of Lérins . |
| 16 | A different form of core appears to have existed from the third century at Godmanchester , after the creation of the open marketplace and the construction of the official ‘ Basilica ’ building adjacent to the mansio compound . |
| 17 | But suppose Lorton had intended from the first to rob Newley , to murder him , and to present the police with a strong case against someone else ? |
| 18 | The second time I was pulled over I showed the ‘ producer ’ I had received from the first policeman , but to no avail . |
| 19 | He was what we have learned to call a WASP , and his lifetime coincided with the process , not yet quite completed , by which that caste — white Anglo-Saxon protestants of the northeast — was supplanted from the position of privilege that they had enjoyed from the first days of the Republic . |
| 20 | It is i i I I we have a wide range of changes that would flow out from that so you could n't just take a change to Cornwall which would then create an oversized Devon seat , I quite accept that and we 've argued from the first that this would have to be part of the review as a whole . |
| 21 | Before he had time to do so , Caballeros and Bugner had arrived from the 16th green . |
| 22 | Turakina had known from the first how he would react , but she had pretended resistance for a day and a night before giving her consent . |
| 23 | Jasper , her elder brother , had refused from the first to dress up for this party and wore his school jeans and Western shirt , though school had not seen him that day . |
| 24 | When the train had emerged from the last tunnel on the Central Line between Stratford and Leyton , issuing with little more space to spare than toothpaste squeezed out of the nozzle of another kind of tube , somewhere past that point , though he was not sure yet where , he would climb out on to the roof of the car . |
| 25 | Britain , in common with the Allies , had learned from the First World War that international peace and stability could only be maintained by the early restoration of Germany to the comity of nations . |
| 26 | The inability of O'Neill and Chichester-Clark to satisfy those demands without destabilizing the state had created the very condition that people such as Paisley had argued had obtained from the first : the rise of old-fashioned nationalist anti-partitionism . |
| 27 | Some had existed from the fourth and fifth centuries on — especially the great pilgrim basilicas of Rome , with St Peter and St Paul fuori le mura in the lead . |
| 28 | Kausmann shows how far we have come from the 19th century , when a girl 's linen box , full of beautifully embroidered monogrammed sheets , was part of her dowry . |
| 29 | It is perfectly possible to build a tag that , for example , creates a blank page before it but is not allowed to become separated from the next block of text . |
| 30 | Spanish-speakers have grown from a third of Dade County 's people to just over a half . |