Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] from the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence everything he built sprang from the fifteenth century and before . |
| 2 | True enough , Morrissey disregarded his original bedsit self pity and began to write from the third person . |
| 3 | Unsuccessful at first , southern whaling began to flourish from the first decade of the 20th century , based initially at shore stations on South Georgia , later on pelagic fleets of factory ships and catchers . |
| 4 | In successive seasons , he took United from the Third to the Second and into the First Division . |
| 5 | One of the things I did learn from the last tour was to rehearse enough material so that you do n't get fed up playing the same things over and over again . ’ |
| 6 | But suppose Lorton had intended from the first to rob Newley , to murder him , and to present the police with a strong case against someone else ? |
| 7 | The second time I was pulled over I showed the ‘ producer ’ I had received from the first policeman , but to no avail . |
| 8 | He was what we have learned to call a WASP , and his lifetime coincided with the process , not yet quite completed , by which that caste — white Anglo-Saxon protestants of the northeast — was supplanted from the position of privilege that they had enjoyed from the first days of the Republic . |
| 9 | We had to walk from the next stop . |
| 10 | Before he had time to do so , Caballeros and Bugner had arrived from the 16th green . |
| 11 | Turakina had known from the first how he would react , but she had pretended resistance for a day and a night before giving her consent . |
| 12 | Jasper , her elder brother , had refused from the first to dress up for this party and wore his school jeans and Western shirt , though school had not seen him that day . |
| 13 | When the train had emerged from the last tunnel on the Central Line between Stratford and Leyton , issuing with little more space to spare than toothpaste squeezed out of the nozzle of another kind of tube , somewhere past that point , though he was not sure yet where , he would climb out on to the roof of the car . |
| 14 | Britain , in common with the Allies , had learned from the First World War that international peace and stability could only be maintained by the early restoration of Germany to the comity of nations . |
| 15 | The inability of O'Neill and Chichester-Clark to satisfy those demands without destabilizing the state had created the very condition that people such as Paisley had argued had obtained from the first : the rise of old-fashioned nationalist anti-partitionism . |
| 16 | Some had existed from the fourth and fifth centuries on — especially the great pilgrim basilicas of Rome , with St Peter and St Paul fuori le mura in the lead . |