Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Linda recognised her from the previous day at school . |
| 2 | Captain Meredith observed her from the open door , as did Miss Jarman . |
| 3 | He struggled into his overcoat which Antony brought him from the hall . |
| 4 | Millie remembered it from the previous evening . |
| 5 | Alice Fell was such a stumbling-block that Wordsworth withdrew it from the 1820 edition of his poems . |
| 6 | Anna reached the door and as she fumbled for the latch , Melody opened it from the other side . |
| 7 | Rachaela watched her from the kitchen window of the flat . |
| 8 | Getting to her feet , Rachaela saw her from the window , dawdling off along the road towards school . |
| 9 | Hugh liked him from the first ; and so do I like him , I like him very well . |
| 10 | When Mr Heath sacked him from the Shadow Cabinet in 1968 after he had paraphrased Virgil 's Aeneid and with foreboding claimed to see ‘ the River Tiber foaming with much blood ’ he began a journey into the wilderness . |
| 11 | He dreamt that Lucie threw him from the parapet of a bridge into deep water , with a stone statue of Garvey tied round his neck . |
| 12 | His manager Alan McColm said : ‘ Martin phoned me from the airport to say what had happened and he was furious . |
| 13 | Graham recognised them from the Art School ; they were talking and laughing . |
| 14 | Graham called her from the School that day , found her in . |
| 15 | Grant took it from the loft this morning . |
| 16 | Damian helped her from the Mercedes . |
| 17 | Adam followed them from the security of the trees , watched the senior officer talking as the others listened and followed him . |
| 18 | Philip watched them from the window . |
| 19 | She was sifting desultorily through her work schedule when Adam rang her from the office . |
| 20 | Gripping the child 's arm , Aggie pulled her from the room and through into a hall and there she stood waiting , for she guessed that the women lined up like felons against the wall would now be led out to pay their fines at the desk in the corner , or be taken through the door back to the cells . |
| 21 | Adam watched him from the top of the bus . |
| 22 | Emmie watched him from the end of the garden , knee-deep in damp , sweet fern . |
| 23 | The Brydges family had owned the property since 1428 , when their ancestor Symon de Brugge bought it from the two daughters and co-heiresses of Richard de Ley . |
| 24 | So we have that remarkable verse , Galatians 3.13 : ‘ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law , having become a curse for us . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law , having become a curse for us — for it is written ‘ Cursed be every one who hangs upon a tree ’ — so that in Christ Jesus the blessing accorded to Abraham might come upon the Gentiles , that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith' ( Gal. 3:14 ) . |
| 26 | The whole Godhead is involved in the rescue and restoration of mankind , and so we read of Paul giving thanks over Christians , for ‘ God chose you from the beginning to be saved ’ . |
| 27 | The political influence of the other major radical figure , Hojatolislam Ali Akbar Mohtashemi , was drastically reduced when Rafsanjani removed him from the post of Interior Minister in his Cabinet reshuffle of August 1989 , following his election as President [ see pp. 36859-60 ] . |
| 28 | So the Old Parsonage remained until the American Mr Stucley bought it from the church in the 1930s , thereafter leaving it to the National Trust . |
| 29 | Lindsay Kemp : ‘ David Bowie struck me from the very beginning as being very versatile and very ‘ up-front ’ and not in the least bit naîve . |
| 30 | ‘ Dicky rescued us from the jaws of the Bastille , ’ Richards said . |