Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AT LEAST two people were killed and 80 injured when a car bomb exploded in the heart of the City of London last night in a suspected IRA attack timed to detract from the Tory General Election victory celebrations . |
| 2 | He had been beaten , threatened with knee-capping , burned on the neck with a cigarette and invited to jump from the open door of the speeding vehicle during the journey to the quarry at Furnace on Loch Fyne . |
| 3 | Hence everything he built sprang from the fifteenth century and before . |
| 4 | Emma tried to run from the falling post , which weighed 120lb , but tripped and fell . |
| 5 | In an effort to salvage the protocol , other delegates have put together a counterproposal requiring any country that decided to mine under the terms the US proposed to withdraw from the entire environmental protocol and not just the mining clause . |
| 6 | Francis might have more to tell of these towns — of their poor and their beggars — whom he tried to raise from the dull misery of want to accept and bless their lot by enjoying poverty and simplicity as great as theirs . |
| 7 | He naturally tried to recover from the steep dive before striking the ground . |
| 8 | Somehow his feelings became detached from the critical procedures ( not that he does not handle and assess his own work critically , which he does ) . |
| 9 | The cult of the martyr became detached from the general cult of the community 's dead members . |
| 10 | Unlike the UBR , the Community Charge sought to depart from the old rating system method of calculating local taxes . |
| 11 | If Labour suddenly seemed old and unelectable , a real youthful challenge to the Thatcher regime seemed to come from the new Social Democratic Party . |
| 12 | The Scottish accent seemed to come from the other side of the crowd . |
| 13 | The only glimmer of light she could see at the moment seemed to come from the cheerful faces of the Rafferty children whenever they arrived on the Four Winds doorstep . |
| 14 | The stories each picture told varied from the tragic to the hilarious : The expensive oil landscape which had had seagulls drawn on to the sky in ballpoint pen ; the ancient Highland cattle picture , swopped for food after the First World War by a travelling artist . |
| 15 | Even Daddy , wisest and kindest of men , seemed to suffer from the same delusion . |
| 16 | ‘ Each dealer knew well the cattle he 'd brought from the Irish villages . |
| 17 | Part of this problem seemed to stem from the fundamental assumption of such theories that everyone is , initially at least , conventional ( the opposite of the assumption of classical criminology ) . |
| 18 | A large suitcase lay on the bed , still full of the clothes he 'd taken from the other room . |
| 19 | Yet more sweet scent came wafting from the generous drifts of white alyssum that softened the open areas of stone chippings in Cheshire Pink shade — a surface that makes a practical alternative to the conventional lawn and can be defined and contained by brick edging . |
| 20 | He heard a howl which seemed to rise from the very bowels of the earth : long , cruel and haunting . |
| 21 | I did n't know about the woman and thought he 'd chipped from the left-hand side of the fairway to the right-hand side . |
| 22 | It happened to lead from the old barracks ( still used for housing a garrison ) up to the hill pass above the town . |
| 23 | As will be discussed in Chapter 10 , the first big generation of owner-occupiers began to retire from the 1960s onwards . |
| 24 | They turned , staying in the centre of Cheapside as the melting snow began to slide from the sloping tiled roofs . |
| 25 | The birth rate also began to fall from the 1870s , initially among the professional middle class . |
| 26 | It would appear that there was some increase in the marriage rates among those in their early twenties during the early 1920s , perhaps because of the delays caused by the First World War , and after 1934 , when the domestic economy began to revive from the worst excesses of the slump . |
| 27 | True enough , Morrissey disregarded his original bedsit self pity and began to write from the third person . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Yet the king-duke began to insist from the 1270s onwards that all allods were sub posse et dominio … regis et ducis ( ‘ under the power and dominion of the king-duke ’ ) . |
| 30 | And William began to run from the approaching cart , which was piled high with the bodies of the plague victims , and as he ran the streets became the familiar streets of his childhood and he knew that all the time he was running from the terrible cart he was getting closer and closer to the dark house by the railway embankment with its shuttered windows and its locked door , and that this was more terrible to him than anything in his history books . |