Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The communist regime that finally fell from power last week was , in many respects , a repetition of Amanullah on a grander , and far bloodier , scale : the war provoked by the 1978 ‘ revolution ’ , and the reaction to it have left up to a million dead , a third of the 16-million population displaced . |
| 2 | These are now privately owned and only emerged from obscurity again a few years ago : sphinxes and winged sirens , the heads of minotaurs and owls , personifications of night and masks with invisible eyes . |
| 3 | Lisabeth and Fenella were being moved out of the way and generally harried from pillar to post . |
| 4 | Wee Charlie shrieked a last time , and promptly vanished from view . |
| 5 | I tried running but gave up after two paces , and then went from meditation to mental arithmetic , calculating the length of each step by counting them for each revolution of the wheel . |
| 6 | in these years [ 1964–1970 ] … the pressures generated within the post-war system substantially and visibly escaped from control . |