Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herod ruled from 37–4 BC . |
| 2 | At four o'clock , nearly an hour before sunrise , the first blackbird began to sing and Thorfinn moved from light sleep to full awareness a moment before Klakkr son of Bathrik , his body-servant for many years , touched him on the shoulder and gave him the sentry 's report : no movement from the enemy in the wood . |
| 3 | As sheriff of Oxford and Buckingham from 1308 to 1310 , forester of Whittlewood Forest in Buckinghamshire from 1308 , constable of Oxford castle from 1311 to 1321 , and steward of the royal household from 1311 to 1325 , Richard moved from local administration to the centre of power and may have been responsible for introducing Roger to royal service . |
| 4 | Botha equalised from 45 metres and gave his side the lead on 20 minutes with an identically tricky penalty . |
| 5 | And just before half time , the erm visitors got their goal erm when Steven scored from another corner , and the score at half time was two one . |
| 6 | But this Saturday differed from other Saturdays : it was exactly five years since her father had died . |
| 7 | Ian Arrol died from massive head injuries when his powerful motorbike went out of control and hit a wall on Crickley Hill outside Gloster . |
| 8 | Production of cotton in Uganda grew from 20,000 bales in 1920 to 400,000 in 1935 ; exports of palm oil from Zaire grew from 40,000 tonnes in 1915 to 150,000 tonnes in 1935 . |
| 9 | Molly looked from one Corduroy to another . |
| 10 | A letter from lawyer Richard Regan last June confirmed that charges relating to the matter had been dropped and Mr Gregory absolved from any blame for the oil spill . |
| 11 | Woolley dived from alternate sides and blasted the aircraft with the close attention of a man beating a carpet . |
| 12 | Dutiful Daughters with Jean McCrindle , Socialism and the New Life with Jeff Weeks and Beyond the Fragments with Lynne Segal and Hilary Wainwright came from this concern . |
| 13 | Churchill suffered from two strokes , the second leaving him completely unable to carry out his duties . |
| 14 | And when the sun appeared they all died and then the people who were to be the people of Amantani came from other islands , from peninsulas in the south … ’ |
| 15 | BRENTFORD boss Phil Holder was left fuming as Tranmere came from two goals behind to claim a thrilling victory . |
| 16 | Schoolboy John Stevens from Uddingston suffered from rheumatoid arthritis as a child and spent a year in hospital . |
| 17 | Arthur Benson recovered from several years of mental breakdown about two years previously and was in the evening summer of his life . |
| 18 | And the vision held out was of a Russia transformed from grinding poverty , ignorance , and rural backwardness into a society that would not only be just and free but modern , dynamic , industrial . |
| 19 | ( Stalin drew from archaic models which emphasized the pyramidal tomb [ Lenin 's ] as the centre of a tribal cult based on forced labour punctuated by religious ceremonies [ May Day ; 7 November ] . ) |
| 20 | Katherine woke from restless sleep and groggily studied her whereabouts . |
| 21 | SALE DISTINGUISHED FROM OTHER TRANSACTIONS |
| 22 | ( Gubbins suffered from chronic dyspepsia , smoked fifty cigarettes a day , and confessed he found the world intolerable without a glass in his hand . ) |
| 23 | The company had claimed that sapele wood imported from Congo and Cameroon came from sustainable sources . |
| 24 | On the more general scheme allowing companies the option to pay FIDs , where ACT would be also paid but unused surpluses would be repayable if the FIDS came from foreign profits , the ICAEW said it was not generous and unnecessarily complex . |
| 25 | But there was more to it than that as Swansea soared from Fourth Division to First with only a season 's rest . |
| 26 | Doctor Chatterjee looked from one woman to the other . |
| 27 | Jane knew from bitter experience that love is a rare thing , so she felt very strongly that nothing should be allowed to come in its way , that nobody should be condemned to endure the rest of life with those two small , sad words : ‘ if only … . ’ |
| 28 | Over the next few years , Nicholson went from one teacher to another in his quest for knowledge of all acting techniques . |
| 29 | Ah , it 's a thing Jake had from that woman he married , she says — like she did n't care for it . |
| 30 | The range of known adverse reactions to NSAIs extended from mild rashes , through bleeding in the stomach and the intestines , to fatal bone-marrow damage . |