Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] from [pron] [det] " in BNC.

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1 While these buildings often shared with Wren 's London churches a basic classical design , they fundamentally differed from them both in their smaller scale and greater simplicity .
2 And then he suddenly said , in a more natural tone , in an everyday tone that she rarely heard from him these days , ‘ And anyway , I thought it would n't matter to anyone , now the children are grown up . ’
3 When it sometimes emerged from her own lips , her teachers or friends would look at her oddly , wondering whether they had heard her correctly .
4 The dullness she had felt in her exhaustion became a kind of sickness now , as for the second time that day she once again flew from her own body and split into two .
5 ‘ Had my wife — her grandmother — been alive when Rose was orphaned she would have given her what she needed — and never received from her own mother — stability — a moral code . ’
6 She was in turn confused , amused , horrified by the things she read — and sometimes had that closer reaction , recognition of something suddenly true something she absolutely identified from her own experience , but had never put a name to .
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