Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun pl] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Travelling by bus at night in winter could be a chilling experience , so my mother made me anklets from the fur cuffs of an old coat ; these stayed on by means of snap fasteners , and I must have looked like a poodle , but they provided considerable comfort . |
| 2 | Guido climbed out and snatched her cases from the back seat . |
| 3 | Surrounded by the slums of Portuguese and Arab immigrants , the campus drew its students from the middle classes , but did so under an authoritarian system of education that seemed hardly to have changed in 150 years . |
| 4 | He gave the example of a two-year Community Skills course in a local college that drew its recruits from the special schools . |
| 5 | Two researchers drew their conclusions from a survey of a week 's complaints about dampness at five local authorities . |
| 6 | In the sixth arrondissement , between the Boulevard Saint-Michel and the Rue des Saints-Peres , the Seine and the Luxembourg , about one hundred folk are traced , as they moved their operations from the Flore to the Deux Magots to the Brasserie Lipp or from the brothels of the Rue Gregoire de Tours to the cheap hotels , La Madison and La Lousiane but especially Le Montana . |
| 7 | " What about my poor old Ducky , " she changed her demands from the pigeons to her pony . |
| 8 | He caught his jitters from the financial markets . |
| 9 | A puggaree of Indian cotton hung from the back of his hat , to protect his neck from the sun ; a brown veil shielded his eyes from the snow ; a whistle hung from his button-hole . ’ |
| 10 | The San José Group of Foreign Ministers of the five Central American countries together with Panama met their counterparts from the 12 European Community ( EC ) member countries in Managua , the Nicaraguan capital , on March 18-19 for the seventh annual meeting on EC-Central American co-operation , which was also attended by the Foreign Ministers of Colombia , Venezuela and Mexico . |
| 11 | The San José Group of Foreign Ministers of the five Central American countries met their counterparts from the 12 European Community ( EC ) countries in Lisbon on Feb. 25-26 for their eighth annual conference , which was also attended by Colombia , Mexico and Venezuela . |
| 12 | Pictures of Lorna Lewis picnicking in pedal pushers , marrying in white and christening her baby daughters counterpointed these triumphs , and the couple , who lived their lives from the outside in , saw themselves looking happy in magazines and believed they were happy , although the combination of Hitchcock and post-natal depression persuaded Lorna to announce that she would take a year off to devote herself to her family . |
| 13 | The prosecution at the Old Bailey had alleged the boy attacked her yards from the London police station where she worked . |
| 14 | After this paper was completed , the UK government announced its conclusions from the consultation process that had followed publication of the Green Paper on Abuse of Market Power in November 1992 . |
| 15 | Deaths : Sammy Fain : in Los Angeles aged 87 : one of the last tunesmiths who peddled their songs from the back of trucks and in the dingy hallways of Tin Pan Alley . |
| 16 | The villagers ate dates from the wadi 's palms , fed their sheep and goats on its shrubs , and made their homes from the mud and vegetation . |
| 17 | Women left behind by the emigrants , ‘ widows ’ who had not heard from their husbands for decades , daughters growing up without fathers , without grandfathers , without brothers -once they too were old enough to leave — were hungry for men , everyone knew that , and the law made its profits from the devils — Greed and Lust and Envy — that scampered among humans playing a deadly tag in which all the players are caught and brought down , one by one . |
| 18 | They lifted their heads from the stones and squinted , as if they 'd only been half aware of interlopers . |
| 19 | On arrival they were given simple accommodation in the company camp and received their meals from the centralized kitchen . |
| 20 | Four pretty distinguished honorary graduates received their degrees from the new Chancellor . |
| 21 | The six received their awards from the Celebrities Guild of Great Britain at London 's Royal Garden Hotel . |
| 22 | Retirals Messrs. G. W. Davidson and R. A. Hamilton intimated their retirals from the committee . |
| 23 | Retirals Messrs. G. W. Davidson and R. A. Hamilton intimated their retirals from the committee . |
| 24 | Carelessly he let a page of newspaper fall on the cement beside the table and spilled his beads from the small purse into his palm . |
| 25 | Chapman recalled his players from the pitch . |
| 26 | The Earl Siward of Northumbria lifted his arms from the table and folded them . |
| 27 | The middle-aged businessman opposite lifted his eyes from a sheaf of papers in his briefcase and stared with fixed interest at the soft-faced girl with the golden tan and the riot of Titian curls , but Virginia was supremely unaware of his admiration . |
| 28 | Doctor Staples lifted his eyes from the chart . |
| 29 | The lawyer never spoke to anyone , never smiled and never lifted his eyes from the innumerable papers he seemed to be reading through his monocle . |
| 30 | After a moment he lifted his eyes from the books , leaned forward and spoke in a lowered voice . |