Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] from the local " in BNC.
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| 1 | In relation to transfer , about 50 per cent of employment had come from the local area and almost 25 per cent from the region . |
| 2 | The evening before he had procured from the local library a copy of Gerald Seymour-Strachey 's essay in autobiography , but a quick flick through the index had assured him there was no mention of Walter Machin , and he had n't had time to bone up on the details of the man himself 's career . |
| 3 | Meanwhile the controllers and their senior staff fulminated against excessive interference from both engineers and administrators at headquarters , who , in their view , lacked the experience of power station design , construction , and operation which the divisions themselves had inherited from the local undertakings . |
| 4 | They were some of the men he had borrowed from the local District Chief . |
| 5 | To get a wider picture than I had obtained from the local bookshops I made special journeys to various places , and acquired every library book I came across , only restricting myself by not acquiring more than one book from each library . |