Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] from [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Harper , from Uckington , no relation to the twins , who 'd been with Rebecca , and Wisdom Smith , who was with Emma , both told the police they 'd jumped from bales of blazing straw . |
| 2 | In the Romalpa case , not only was the seller entitled , as owner , to the unmixed goods which the buyer had not sold , but the seller was also entitled to the proceeds of the sale which the buyer had received from sub-sales of unmixed goods . |
| 3 | Indeed , a painter-critic named Lecomte had resigned from membership of the Salon because he felt the Cubists were too numerous and their work too well hung . |
| 4 | A request for a diary had come from friends of the broker whose daughter was due home from Arra in Zaire because of political troubles . |
| 5 | This explained why the sounds of battle had come from east of this dell . |
| 6 | The girl had suffered from tuberculosis of the lungs , but it was agreed that although that would ‘ probably at no very distant period have terminated fatally ’ the immediate cause of death was in the stomach . |
| 7 | He was sixty-eight years old and had suffered from cancer of the oesophagus for some time . |
| 8 | Parents reported whether their children had suffered from attacks of asthma or bronchitis during the past 12 months , whether they usually coughed first thing in the morning or at any other time , whether their chest ever sounded wheezy or whistling , and , if so , whether this symptom was present on most days or nights . |
| 9 | The island had suffered from shortages of food , power , and medical supplies , since the Port Moresby government imposed a blockade in 1990 in response to the BRA 's declaration of independence . |
| 10 | On Feb. 3 the government stated that 31,033 children had died from lack of medicines and food as a result of UN sanctions [ see also p. 38742 ] . |
| 11 | Dr Ceri Williams , consultant pathologist at the hospital , said Mr Prattley had died from fibrosis of the lungs . |
| 12 | I mean the quotes we had ranged from sort of |
| 13 | Though all of them had descended from families of wealth and influence , these were not public powers . |
| 14 | Ever since she had learned from Rose of his mother 's red hair , she had fondly permitted her idle daydream , her secret wishes , to grow and flower as if indeed they existed . |
| 15 | A bad reputation had resulted from years of unwieldy and sometimes inefficient management , coupled with the inherent un-reliability of the old wagonload system . |
| 16 | The populace generally played little part in that agitation , but when Wilkes returned from the exile in 1768 to which he had fled from fear of imprisonment , debt and the fighting of a duel , to fight the Middlesex election , he became the symbol of a much wider agitation . |
| 17 | In addition , those rivalries enabled him in peacetime to go on playing his wartime role of common denominator ; the arbiter who remained detached from conflicts of particular interests ; the provider of unity . |