Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By December the same year ( Lois Rosow notes ) ‘ the inspecteurs [ Francoeur and Rebel ] , apparently weary of the Querelle des Bouffons , asked to retire from the Opéra . ’ |
| 2 | Next month he planned to retire from the army , but says he could n't resist this call to duty . |
| 3 | Or is it , is it that they 've become a sort of exclusive club , arising al almost always through the ranks of the of the law , and gradually , gradually got withdrawn from the way that ordinary people think and feel . |
| 4 | That the Rev. C. G. Hamilton having at the suggestion of the Governors agreed to retire from the Headmastership on a pension , the Governors beg respectfully to suggest £150 per annum as such pension , and ask the advice of the Charity Commissioners on the subject . " |
| 5 | The first decree was issued in 1972 by the military regime in alliance with the local bourgeoisie , who clearly expected to benefit from the initiative . |
| 6 | If I were to die , she thought , there is nobody to find me , perhaps for days and weeks , for we do not have visitors , and my mother would die too , of fright or starvation or a broken limb , after her voice gave out in screaming , and she tried to struggle from the bed . |
| 7 | Fashanu , included in the squad for today 's boxing day clash with Wimbledon 's Selhurst Park landlords , Crystal Palace , last night promised to lead from the front in the club 's fight against relegation . |
| 8 | In a scaly hollow a crowd of naked Perks fled squealing from the echo of their bounding feet . |
| 9 | They became , in a sense , a captive labour force ; those who tried to escape from the land to neighbouring towns could be forcibly returned or punished . |
| 10 | ‘ They sent him to Australia for life , because he tried to escape from the prison-ship . ’ |
| 11 | Peter desperately tried to scramble from the wreckage , fearing the car would burst into flames . |
| 12 | The car , a Vauxhall Cavalier reported stolen from the Wakefield area , had crashed into the narrow bridge at Eller Beck , on the A169 Whitby-Pickering road near RAF Fylingdales . |
| 13 | Ben Bellaser was best man , of course , ‘ … and had first kiss of the fair bride I helped to save from the grave ’ . |
| 14 | He was hurt as he tried to transfer from the Tayjack rig to the tug Torbay Endeavour off the coast of Sunderland . |
| 15 | In fact it was rather modernism , as its name implies ( from latin modo , just now , or hodie , today ) , that tried to awake from the nightmare of history , self-consciously setting itself against the past , and rejecting forms of historical understanding . |
| 16 | The day after we tried to telephone from the post office but could not get through to Alassio . |
| 17 | She had tears in her eyes as she tried to recover from the laughter . |
| 18 | In the immediate post-war period down to the mid-1950s there were endless external difficulties as the economy tried to recover from the strains of the war ; balance-of-payments crises of a severe kind in 1949 , 1951 , and 1955 , often accompanied by pressure on sterling , were endemic . |
| 19 | He was restrained as he tried to rush from the dock before the judge left the court . |
| 20 | That night , Seb had so much to drink that when he tried to rise from the ground beside the camp-fire to return home his legs felt like rubber and he sat down again unexpectedly . |
| 21 | Traditional Hawaiian society only began to fall apart when the godhead became detached from the environment : when Captain Cook arrived and ushered in a foreign idol , ubiquitous , omnipotent , immortal , but disembodied , absent , invisible . |
| 22 | ‘ Bill says the Lorrimores ’ private car got detached from the train on Sunday evening . |
| 23 | If one knight became separated from the rest of his team he might find five or six opponents all bearing down on him at once , and one of them might strike him in the back . |
| 24 | The role of clerks became separated from the decision making of tribunals and presenting officers became much less adversarial in approach , both developments being the result of special training . |
| 25 | What actually happened was that she somehow became separated from the others , decided to walk to work and fell in a ditch on her way up the hill . |
| 26 | Coming home at dawn , exploring Dickens 's alleyways and squares , I somehow got separated from the others and went rushing round frantically trying to find them . |
| 27 | They were spotted by the enemy , who attacked , and in the ensuing mêlée , Shorten was killed and Sillito got separated from the others . |
| 28 | Kalchu was reflecting , wondering which of the shots we 'd heard from the house . |
| 29 | ‘ My sole reason for invading your maiden privacy , ’ he said with sarcasm , ‘ was because I 'd heard from the police . |
| 30 | Then there were the bruises on his knees and elbows that he 'd received from the fall over the trip-wire at Jacqui 's . |