Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] from a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pale daylight that entered came from a single tiny window in the front wall , but there were no curtains . |
| 2 | A comedy of errors as Collegians tried to clear from a defensive line out presented McCall with the simplest of scores . |
| 3 | It seemed to flow from a weaker to a stronger system , thus acting contrary to the Second Law of Thermodynamics . |
| 4 | He 'd fallen from a second floor window . |
| 5 | I heard a voice which seemed to come from a long distance — ‘ Throw the bastard down . |
| 6 | A post morteum revealled she 'd died from a large fracture of the skull , soon after she 'd been born . |
| 7 | They 'd all gone to bed the night before when I 'd returned from a last noggin with Harry . |
| 8 | We endeavoured to enquire from a black policeman . |
| 9 | With the same instinct that had sent Bishop Jon , he noted , to pare his nails and perfect the glossy ring of his tonsure , he on the eve of battle came cleansed from a hot bath : the ritual laugardagr observed once a week by his fore-fathers , of which the other Bishop John in far-off Bremen would so have disapproved . |
| 10 | The rain that night was unusually heavy , and water began to pour from a broken pipe on the church roof straight on to Fanny 's grave . |
| 11 | The transverse flute was an instrument Jacques knew and heard performed from a young age by players such as Pierre Pièche , the first to hold the position of solo flute at the Academie Royale de Musique . |
| 12 | After half an hour 's question-and-answer , Mr Yeltsin suddenly began reading from a prepared text : |
| 13 | For much of the broadcast he was answering questions put by two interviewers , but as it was drawing to a close he suddenly began reading from a prepared text , declaring : " I warned in 1987 that Gorbachev has in his character an aspiration for absolute personal power . |
| 14 | Predictions of the regional temperature variations expected to result from a global warming have been compiled by the UN IPCC ( 199Oa ) such as shown in figure 6.16 . |
| 15 | Although I do not wholeheartedly agree with the view the author takes of the mechanical world of the train being somehow better than that of nature , I can still find it interesting and thought inducing from a philosophical angle . |
| 16 | On a stormy night at the beginning of May he watched by the bedside of his brother-in-law , Robert Lovell , as he lay dying from a putrid fever , and tried to comfort Lovell 's young wife Mary , who was listening frantically to her husband 's ‘ loud , deep , unintermitted groans ’ during his final hours . |
| 17 | One of his earliest tricks , first performed in 1865 , was ‘ escaping from a box ’ , in which he managed to escape from a locked , roped , wooden box inside a cabinet in seven seconds . |
| 18 | Besides the Shaplands ' daughter , Emily , who was recruited to work in the art department , local schoolchildren were employed as extras and crowds of spectators gathered to watch from a nearby meadow . |
| 19 | CINEMA workers were made to take lie detector tests after thousands of pounds went missing from a 10-screen UCI complex . |
| 20 | The only serious threat appeared to come from a small group of exiles in Paris , chief amongst whom was Henry Beaumont , who had gathered together exiles from Lancaster s movement and some of the nobles who had lost lands in Scotland . |
| 21 | A Hampshire hotel hit on a clever country house compromise with gentle piano recordings that appeared to come from a live performer in the next room — creating a delightful backdrop to afternoon tea . |
| 22 | Thus , within a period of about 300 years , the Franks had developed from a general confederacy of Germanic invaders with mere tribal links , into a fully-fledged kingdom . |
| 23 | He went on to say that he had heard from a mutual friend whom he had met in Alexandria that I had a good job , and added : ‘ Mother said , in an old letter which took months to reach me , that it was in the Foreign Office . |
| 24 | The cause of death had been the terrible bludgeoning he had received from a blunt instrument . |
| 25 | He mentioned the insults his father had received from a young man near Trantridge who had a blind mother . |
| 26 | His head was buried in the sand , hands and feet spread out , as if he had fallen from a great height . ’ |
| 27 | It had fallen from a high point of $90 per tonne to as low as $30 per tonne . |
| 28 | His room was drab and poky , but clean , rather as he had expected from a rundown lower middle-class Viennese pension . |
| 29 | J. T. Murphy , who had resigned from a leading position in the Communist Party in 1932 , became the Secretary of the League on the death of E. F. Wise . |
| 30 | My father was a missionary had come from a dusty little town in South Africa , I 've got many wonderful experiences in my life , I 've had experience of heart transplant . |