Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] from [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only a few years after the war the arts became separated from ideology in a way that enabled both artistic practice and theory to gain so-called independence . |
| 2 | One thing she 'd learned from Ace in the short time they 'd been together was to be quick on her feet . |
| 3 | The Seville Junta behaved with criminal selfishness and , but for the moderation of its general , it might have declared war on Granada ; it refused to send the Andalusian Army to the critical Ebro front where the French , after Joseph had withdrawn from Madrid in the panic caused by the defeat of French corps by the patriots of Bailén , were massing for a reinvasion of Spain . |
| 4 | She had stopped to help someone who had fainted from hunger in the street . |
| 5 | Two other men had travelled from Glasgow in order to be close by when the great event happened . |
| 6 | But if Mrs Longhill felt better that her servant had fallen from grace in distant Barnswick , then let her think it . |
| 7 | John Matthews , chairman of the CIA energy committee , said that a recent CIA investment survey had shown that although investment had dropped from £2000m in 1991 to £1600m–£1800m in 1992 , the amount invested in health , safety and the environment had gone up considerably and the amount invested in energy efficiency had remained level . |
| 8 | I implored him not to , but he was adamant , thus following Rear Admiral Poland who had resigned from Muirfield in consequence of my being blackballed there ( ‘ it makes no sense at all ’ , he wrote to the secretary , ‘ that he can be accepted as a guest but blackballed as a member ’ ) : both were sacrifices for which I felt a personal responsibility and which caused me much distress . |
| 9 | The second item had come from Fischer in Alexandria . |
| 10 | It had come from America in a parcel . |
| 11 | The most elaborate response for broad-ranging rationalisation had come from Britain in 1952 with the Eden Plan , but this had been a response to Britain 's anxiety about what the little Europe of the Six might achieve . |
| 12 | The railway had come from Belfast in 1842 , the original station having been at Seagoe and some will still recall the old sidings which used to be near the signal-box there . |
| 13 | On 18th , January 1912 , Captain Robert Falcon Scott , and his colleagues , reached the South Pole to find that Amundsen had reached there before them , and the whole party perished in appalling weather on their return journey to their ship Terra Nova , in which they had sailed from England in 1910 . |
| 14 | He died 16 November 1915 at his home in New Cross , south London , to which he had moved from Whitechapel in 1901 , and he was buried in Nunhead cemetery . |
| 15 | The Guardian of May 13 reported that the country 's health directorate had confirmed that 951 people had died from diarrhoea in the previous two weeks , mostly in cyclone-affected areas . |
| 16 | The ICRC estimated that in the town of Iscia Baidoa , 220 km north-west of Mogadishu , 7,000 of the town 's 40,000 people had died from starvation in recent months . |
| 17 | In May 1989 the Turkish Human Rights Association claimed that 171 prisoners had died from torture in police custody between 1980 and 1986 . |
| 18 | Similar accusations were made by Gen. Miguel N'Zau Puna who had defected from UNITA in March [ see p. 38803 ] . |
| 19 | This effort had obviously failed by early April and the attention of both Labour and Likud switched to the five-member " Liberal " faction which had defected from Likud in late February [ see p. 37303 ] . |
| 20 | Muldoon had retired from politics in 1991 and became a popular talk-show host with an Auckland radio station . |
| 21 | Although this represented a success for the government , it made more unlikely any early surrender by cartel leader Pablo Escobar Gaviria , who had escaped from prison in July [ see p. 39001 ] . |
| 22 | It is thought that the potters had migrated from Malaga in response to the increasing pressure of the sea blockade of southern Spain by Christian ships . |
| 23 | Dubcek faced calls from right-wing forces for his resignation as Assembly Chairman in view of his " practical support " for the opposition party Movement for a Democratic Slovakia ( HZDS ) , a group which had split from VPN in March 1991 [ see p. 38106 ] . |
| 24 | It was reported that trade between the two countries had increased from $770,000 in 1988 to $7,740,000 in the first quarter of 1989 . |
| 25 | The ruling was made in the case of Jairo Jonathan Elias Zacarias who had fled from Guatemala in 1987 after guerrillas had attempted forcibly to recruit him for military service . |
| 26 | There was a whisper amongst the servants that she had fled from Andrew in terror on the night of her return . |
| 27 | Moniba had fled from Liberia in September 1990 , after three months in hiding following attempts by him and others to persuade Doe to step down . |
| 28 | The son of an affluent Pakistani landowning family , he had graduated from Oxford in 1963 , with radical political ideas , and few prospects . |
| 29 | Armitage suggested that the shortfall for fiscal 1990 was $96,000,000 and had arisen from cuts in Bush 's aid request imposed by Congress , whereas Manglapus claimed that the true figure , based on the estimated cost of other " unfulfilled promises " , was $222,580,000 . |
| 30 | This is perhaps just as well , since White 's informative 1985 survey of interlending in the UK found that the percentage of UK requests satisfied within a period of seven days ( from all sources ) had declined from 50% in 1977 to 32% in 1985 . |