Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While artisans certainly had better opportunities than had most of the lower orders , it is probably unwise to insist that a very wide behavioural gap separated them from the " crowd " , at least until the last years of the eighteenth century . |
| 2 | Leaves danced curlicues on the pavement as the wind ripped them from the plane trees and sent them scurrying along the ground . |
| 3 | Screens of holly and ivy sheltered her from the deepening winter , but now the forest became a black and frozen place . |
| 4 | The rye hid him from the French rankers , and only those officers on horseback could see the Rifleman over the tall crop . |
| 5 | The barmaid led them from the bar and up some rickety steps . |
| 6 | Another band encircled him from the left , two massive arms had him from behind , his feet were lifted from the ground . |
| 7 | The marquis lifted her from the saddle , feeling the warmth of her body against his own , wishing he could go on holding her for ever . |
| 8 | The invisible cage removed them from the otherworld . |
| 9 | The frontier post spotted him from the photos we rushed to the western frontier . |
| 10 | A thick hedge shielded her from the field which swept down towards the foot of the embankment . |
| 11 | One person recognised him from the Bath Festival . |
| 12 | As the garrison watched him from the shelter of the verandah they could tell that the rain was having a bad effect on him ; he clearly did not like the way it beat on his head and shoulders raising a fine spray ; nor did he seem partial to the way it poured down the neck of his shirt and coursed down his trouser legs . |
| 13 | A Zim motor-car took us from the airport to the Europe Hotel which is just off the Nevsky prospekt , the wide main street of Leningrad . |
| 14 | A taxi took them from the airport to Commander Zadak 's office , some kilometres north of Sydney . |
| 15 | A sun umbrella sheltered them from the wan May sunshine . |
| 16 | A slight chill the day after the sale had delayed her journey to London and so she had been forced to leave Summer Lodge with her few possessions in a bag and watch as the cab carried her from the large estate on the hill to the cramped rooms of the house in Chapel Street . |
| 17 | So deeply was the fish hooked that a passing ‘ aquarium owner Chris Batt of Chris ’ Silent World Aquarium rescued it from the angler and took it to a vet , Nigel Gregory , in Haverfordwest . |
| 18 | The Portuguese who ruled the coastal areas of the island captured it from the King of Kandy three times between 1505 and 1656 . |
| 19 | The March plenum expelled him from the MPRP and withdrew all his titles . |
| 20 | I said there were the that county record form and this man asked me from the museum that handled it if he could send them back to erm to Wiltshire . |
| 21 | Aenarion deflected the pulsing energy with his shield but the power of the daemon 's attack cast him from the saddle . |
| 22 | The buoy shielded her from the view of the guards , and she used that advantage to get her breath back . |
| 23 | At the same time she knew that her gender isolated her from the ritualised socialising of other senior officers . |
| 24 | He was threading his way along the side of a steep and thickly wooded declivity when a voice hailed him from the other side . |
| 25 | So I left , and as I walked back to my car , the man watched me from the little steel balcony upon which Kanaan Abu Khadra had played as a boy . |
| 26 | RUGBY SCHOOL 's ambitious Antipodean tour took them from the birthplace of the game in England to Nelson , where the first game of rugby was played in New Zealand between the Nelson club and Nelson College in 1870 . |
| 27 | The hon. Gentleman conceded that it was an idea worth considering , whereas the Secretary of State mocked it from the outset . |
| 28 | The shops on the Garlands ' side of the street backed on the water and only a narrow paved walk separated them from the harbour . |
| 29 | ‘ How very different from Spain' was Dana 's first comment as the bus took us from the station to Avondale Buildings . |
| 30 | " Now in 1849 both companies supplied virtually the same water … the Lambeth Company got theirs from the Thames close to the Hungerford Bridge ; the Southwark and Vauxhall Company got theirs at Battersea-fields . |