Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [adv prt] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She often told me of the nightly air-raids , her parents worn out from fire-watching , houses in the familiar streets suddenly plunged into dust , people suddenly gone , news of sons lost at the Front . |
| 2 | She had a picture of sooty red brick , quiet , empty streets with grey winter haze at the end of them , little corner shops with paper decorations left over from Christmas , gritty smoke blowing down from the chimneys . |
| 3 | So far the autumn had brought gales soft bright days left over from summer misty still days , windy showery ones and now a fine drizzle . |
| 4 | Hilary Wright , in an article on Violet Needham , points out that the various countries are ‘ clearly recognizable as pre-1914 Austria-Hungary , with contributions thrown in from France and the Netherlands ’ , and that it was a world in which Violet Needham had lived herself . |
| 5 | With the help of a few sure-fire successes brought over from ITV , it gradually established itself , though still subsidized by the sub-scriptions . |
| 6 | One of the most popular things in the garden — especially with children — is the Bear Hut which used to house a black bear cub one of the Acland sons brought back from Canada . |
| 7 | The two cuisines of Louisiana can both be sampled in these recipes brought back from John Folses ' plantation restaurant White Oaks , in Baton Rouge , Louisiana . |
| 8 | One client recently had 25 ft date palms brought in from Egypt . |
| 9 | The sofas and chairs were deep and soft enough to fall asleep in , a fireplace was topped by an Adam mantel which Hugo had had flown out from England and everywhere there were fresh flowers — long stemmed hothouse roses , orchids flown in from Singapore , daffodils and narcissi and heavy perfumed hyacinths . |
| 10 | From there , no doubt , he 'd gone straight to Hell ; but there were times when he and his wicked mistresses were still to be seen walking here , their shades drawn back from Hellfire to visit the scene of their sins . |
| 11 | All sorts of bits left over from Ladymont days . |
| 12 | All it eat right , is since the stuff 's been back last Sunday , he 's had what we eat , what our scraps left over from dinner . |
| 13 | Some years later , we are told , travellers brought back from Italy an account of the saint 's life , about which nothing had been known previously . |
| 14 | The solid bulk of the nation was as dedicated as ever to the war , phlegmatic and unquestioning , turning a closed mind and a deaf ear to the tales men brought back from Verdun , in much the same way as when , to the succeeding generation , rumours began to filter out from the concentration camps . |
| 15 | While cooperating closely with the RCM , children brought over from Germany under Youth Allyah auspices surrendered home comforts for the spartan discipline of the barrack room in agricultural training camps like Whittingham House near Edinburgh and Great Engham Farm and Pine Trees in Kent . |
| 16 | The son of a wealthy London merchant , Lethieullier was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries ; he knew both William and John Hunter , who in turn must have been aware of his collection of Egyptian antiquities , amongst which were some mummies brought back from Egypt to Aldersbrook by Lethieullier 's cousin , Colonel William Lethieullier . |
| 17 | Marshals — and waitresses flown in from Germany — will make sure drinkers do n't get too many steins of beer at the four day event . |
| 18 | Odours and fumes given off from pans in which fish is fried , particularly when rancid oils or vegetable oils are used as the frying medium , are liable to give rise to objections from nearby residents . |
| 19 | And for apres-apres-ski there were always the lovely blonde women flown in from Madam Claudes famous establishment in Paris . |
| 20 | At 12.30 , just as the clouds peeled back from Las Palmas , she sailed out to the line . |
| 21 | Resources for learning also include the local area , the environment , the countryside and the townscape , museums and historic buildings and their collections , the extensive range of local material offered by local record offices , or the local study centre , or reference library , as well as pictures and artefacts brought in from home , reminiscences of family members or the elderly , interesting visitors to the school and many other things ( see Box 13 ) . |
| 22 | To the same end , the clothes brought over from Germany were quietly removed . |
| 23 | By 1294 there already existed at Rouen , on the river Seine , a shipyard controlled by the king and employing specialist ship-builders brought in from Genoa . |