Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway I went there and I was impressed , I 'd seen it from the ship and I completely concur with everything that 's been said . |
| 2 | Joe said he 'd got them from the pawnshop . |
| 3 | I 'd known him from the start of punk . |
| 4 | They bartered their grain for the salt he 'd brought back from the border , where he traded with Tibetans who 'd scraped it from the arid salt-lakes and carried it south on yaks across the windswept dust-blown plateau lands . |
| 5 | They 'd taken her from the police cells after two days . |
| 6 | She 'd taken him from the town and the friends that he knew and she 'd brought him to this great , dusty mausoleum of a place where he did n't even like to run around because the echo of his footsteps sounded too much like someone faceless who was following too close . |
| 7 | I knew that I 'd loved you from the moment we first met and I 'd never stopped . ’ |
| 8 | I thought she 'd fetched it from the bedroom . |
| 9 | I got more of a role in the whole thing than the Colonel had figured on — I do n't know if my mistress had intended it from the start . |
| 10 | And the Cid sent for all his friends and his kinsmen and vassals , and told them how King Don Alfonso had banished him from the land , and asked for them who would follow him into banishment , and who would remain at home . |
| 11 | Sister had heard them from the S.C.O . 's office and was already beside me . |
| 12 | Yet considerate as ever , Louisa had shielded him from the worst of the intrusion . |
| 13 | He looked behind confirming that his body had joined him from the ground . |
| 14 | It had been Intelligence 's own Self Inflicted Wound that had lifted him from the status of a policeman to that of a ranking diplomat . |
| 15 | He had occupied it from the creation of the new Czechoslovakia in 1990 until his resignation last year over the sheering off of Slovakia . |
| 16 | Last time I had been to Paris they had rescued me from the freezing streets and hungry wolf packs . ) |
| 17 | Deborah Ford , 29 , said later that her husband had pushed her from the path of the shark . |
| 18 | Even with the whitewash skeleton painted on to him , Benny had no difficulty recognizing the serpentine man who had kidnapped her from the museum . |
| 19 | In a daring helicopter operation supporters had freed him from the prison on Naos Island , off Panama City , on Dec. 4 . |
| 20 | He had seen it from the outside . |
| 21 | Stephen had seen it from the window of his room , its red , white and blue vivid in the twilight . |
| 22 | Ruth had felt it from the moment he had picked her up at the hotel and once again they had headed for the Cartuja site of the Expo . |
| 23 | At times he would claim that his father had been lashed in front of the town and put in the stocks for poaching a salmon , and told to pray for the soul of Lord I — whose goodness had saved him from the hanging he deserved . |
| 24 | Whatever vanishing act had saved her from the goon with the gun , it had left her armed . |
| 25 | If their historical interest had saved them from the pick , the swinging steel ball , and the bulldozer , their intractable lay-out had discouraged renovators who might have put them to some use . |
| 26 | J.B. Priestley once said that it could never quite make up its mind whether it was a port or a resort , but that very ambivalence had saved it from the worst pitfalls of both . |
| 27 | They belonged to Hammersmith Council who had bought them from the BBC for something like three million pounds . |
| 28 | This song appealed especially , as we had filched it from the Germans . |
| 29 | We had a bachelor party on board , who were out for a little merrymaking : an island marriage ball had wooed them from the desk of the counting-house , and having had a taste of the free air of these parts , and being good fellows well met , a few more days of healthful roving have a gleeful appendix to the gaieties of the wedding . |
| 30 | She put them under her raincoat in the basket and looked at the receipt the chemist had handed her from the till ; there was no evidence that she had paid for these items . |