Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problems mostly arose from lack of capital and only in a few cases had any action been taken — two had recently purchased houses in nearby villages for their sons and some had been able to purchase or rent some more land . |
| 2 | Among them was a young officer who was riding a mule ( which stubbornly stopped from time to time ) and roaring with laughter . |
| 3 | In the Fifties the things you bought to throw away ranged from Kleenex to baking tins , from razors with only one blade ( supplied by vending machine ) to watches not worth repairing . |
| 4 | I really had thought she would go berserk , but she just trembled from head to toe , and was only calmed slightly by the sound of my voice . |
| 5 | Lisabeth and Fenella were being moved out of the way and generally harried from pillar to post . |
| 6 | John talked to Sara but she did n't listen , just nodded from time to time . |
| 7 | I just went from person to person and asked if they needed help when a policeman asked me to come and take a look at Johnathan . |
| 8 | Yet he just went from strength to strength . |
| 9 | he certainly found me and from there we just went from strength to strength and erm were still have together . |
| 10 | They soon progressed from Christmas to holidays … travel … world events … and then to food , as they laughingly divided the two plump triangles of cake and argued as to which was the nicer . |
| 11 | Instantly familiar ( and , some would claim , too much soin opera these days ) is the white box set perched on a floor steeply raked from left to right , under which coffins are piled in increasing numbers as the work unfolds . |
| 12 | However , the idea that archive work might be used in the training of embryo diplomats still surfaced from time to time in France . |
| 13 | Letters from the States had been few and far between of late , although money from Sean still came from time to time . |
| 14 | He quickly collapsed from loss of blood near a Cheltenham nightclub and died later in hospital . |
| 15 | The FA , which usually refrained from comment on its Cup finals , was led to express its ‘ great regret ’ at the behaviour during the game , and hoped that ‘ there will not be any similar conduct in any future Final tie ’ . |
| 16 | Louis de Broglie also tried from time to time throughout his later life to find ways of reconciling quantum mechanics with a more deterministic picture . |
| 17 | She also suffered from arthritis in the wrists , the fingers and the ankles and she was unable to turn her head at all ; this was due to a car accident several years before when she had suffered from whiplash . |
| 18 | Speed also faded from view in the second half , as did Macallister . |
| 19 | Police believe British spy Ian Spiro cold-bloodedly walked from bedroom to bedroom and murdered them . |
| 20 | And she even dropped from time to time the odd and flattering hint about the unique nature of her interest . |
| 21 | ‘ Pole is important , even if the statistics show that no more than 50 per cent of the winners here started from pole in the last 10 years , ’ he said . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The American civil war decided something fundamental it did n't decide , as some people argue , that blacks were equal to whites this was w one of the least of Abraham Lincoln 's concerns Abraham Lincoln supported in the eighteen fifties , I throw this in for people who Americ and there 's usually an American in the audience who 's brought up to believe that Abraham Lincoln walks on the water , you know erm he actually suffered from syphilis by that 's by the way |
| 24 | That 's the view of John Broughton , Health Physicist at Torness , who recently returned from part in an OSART inspection of the plant . |
| 25 | Later , I too escaped from school into the army , and the four years of war service seemed at the time , perfectly natural . |
| 26 | George Burley presently came into the dining car and spoke for a while to Nell , who subsequently went from table to table , clipboard in place , repeating what he 'd said . |