Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [to-vb] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd had to walk from the more expensive inn up the road which was the official halt for the northbound stagecoach . |
| 2 | Meantime , senior officers had gathered to watch from the rear observation and the order went out that all ranks must return to their posts . |
| 3 | If Parliament had intended to depart from the break-even basis , he argued , this would have been enacted expressly in Part 1 of the Act where the general duties of the policy-maker , the GLC , were set ; and added : ‘ But section 1(1) says nothing to suggest the exclusion of the fiduciary duty to the rate payers . ’ |
| 4 | She had stopped to drink from a can on the way up , caring little now for what it might be doing to her . |
| 5 | It was certainly not what undergraduates at Oxford had come to expect from a lecturer . |
| 6 | She was not beautiful , and hardly fey as he had come to expect from the fair sex , but there was something undeniably compelling about her . |
| 7 | Mr John Quinton , chairman of the Committee of London and Scottish Clearing Banks and of Barclays , told Mr MacGregor yesterday that all clearing banks had decided to withdraw from the scheme . |
| 8 | Against landowners whose own fathers had had to flee from the Crown 's killers in ‘ Forty-six ? |
| 9 | The sound had seemed to come from a long way over the heath to the right . |
| 10 | Capron was also the fifth face in the photograph that Urquhart had wanted to take from the Nowaks ' house . |
| 11 | Abdallah and his brother Faysal had hoped to benefit from the alliance made in 1915 between their father Husayn , Sharif of Mecca and ruler of the Hijaz , and the British . |
| 12 | The older woman had started to fire from the ravine . |
| 13 | It was the elderly widow of the village-school caretaker , whom the council had tried to evict from the flat that went with her husband 's job . |
| 14 | And er because that 's where we were all the time so you had to learn to swim from no age at all . |
| 15 | On his return from the England tour of India in three months time Gooch had planned to separate from the mother of his three daughters and his wife of 16 years . |
| 16 | Gebrec stared coldly back at him and Melissa sensed that they were on the verge of a confrontation , but Bonard 's attention was diverted by the approach of the members of his class , who had begun to emerge from the house . |
| 17 | Crowds had begun to fall from a first-day county average of almost 15,000 in the 1890s to under 10,000 between 1906 and 1914 . |
| 18 | The turnout in the election was just 50.72 per cent , considerably down on the previous record low of 57 per cent in the 1983 upper house contest , and suggested that rather than registering anti-LDP votes with an alternative party , many voters had chosen to abstain from the electoral process . |
| 19 | It was amazing , really , that he had managed to recover from the heart attack so easily . |
| 20 | Lastly I told him that there was supposed to be a plan for a British submarine which would take off escaped prisoners somewhere near La Spezia , and I produced some maps of the area which I had managed to get from a book seller friend of mine in Parma . |
| 21 | He returned an hour later with a few stunted bushes he had managed to prise from the rock . |
| 22 | He had failed to recover from the structural hip injury which troubled him throughout the World Cup and the date of his return could not be forecast . |