Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [noun sg] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The military commander , Lieutenant Colonel Brereton , failed to obtain support from the magistrates and withdrew two of his troops from the city . |
| 2 | Then , the GLC , appalled at the waste and dereliction of this gigantic site in the heart of London , declared the place an ‘ Action Area ’ and tried to inspire development from the top down . |
| 3 | Conker hurried to begin with , gregarious as usual , then he slowed and tried to snatch grass from the hedgerows , the long stalks of cow parsley dangling from his mouth . |
| 4 | Tim was fascinated at seeing overturned engines on the side of the line , and you girls were a little anxious as you saw me and a nice Salvation Army wife tear down the track when the train stopped to get water from the engine ! |
| 5 | Like the others he failed from the Centurion corner , so tried to gain entry from the right . |
| 6 | He seemed to derive pleasure from the memory . |
| 7 | Skeletal arms lifted , one pointing ; eyes that were just holes in maggoty wood seemed to seek compassion from the human . |
| 8 | He seemed to gain pleasure from the comradeship of Art teachers ; their banter and dry North country humour . |
| 9 | A compromise Swedish scheme , incorporating elements of both the EC and the US- " Cairns Group " proposals , failed to win support from the EC , Japan and South Korea [ see p. 37930 ] . |
| 10 | A Swedish proposal to ban fishing for bluefin tuna in the west Atlantic , and to limit catches in the eastern Atlantic , failed to win endorsement from the CITES secretariat . |
| 11 | Her height served to distract attention from the power in her calves and biceps . |
| 12 | However , it is time to take a more positive view , and to look at the way early organisms began to combine energy from the sun with gases in the atmosphere and in so doing enabled life as we know it to evolve . |
| 13 | He did n't see his task as correcting the ways of men who had strayed into crime and needed help ; he and his warders existed to protect society from the kind of human garbage locked within the walls of Whitely . |
| 14 | In the meantime a new chapter had opened when operations began to recover gold from the Main Reef of the Witwatersrand . |
| 15 | Krishna Kumar Rawal ACA of 74A High Street , Wanstead , London having been found guilty of misconduct within the meaning of Bye-law 76(a) in force at the material time and liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that he at Ilford and Wanstead between 18 November 1987 and 1 April 1990 failed to account properly and promptly for monies held on behalf of a client and in that he at Wanstead between 18 November 1987 and 6 January 1992 failed to account properly and promptly to a client for interest received in respect of monies held on behalf of the said client and having been in breach of Bye-law 76(a) ( iv ) in that he at Wanstead between 3 December 1991 and 18 June 1992 failed to provide information required of him by the Investigation Committee in exercise of its powers under Bye-law 80(a) was reprimanded , fined £1,000 , ordered to take advice from the Professional Referrals Service and to pay £1,000 by way of costs . |
| 16 | Philip began to scoop grain from the opened sack into his polythene bag quickly . |
| 17 | A consensus seems to have emerged that some kinds of blue-green algae started to extract hydrogen from the planet 's richest resource , the oceans . |
| 18 | Observers commented that Russian President Boris Yeltsin needed to ensure support from the officer corps while the unpopular economic reforms more implemented , citing the presidential decree , published on Feb. 19 , " on measures to enhance social protection of servicemen and persons discharged from military service " , which included improved housing provisions and a monthly minimum wage of 1,800 roubles for officers . |
| 19 | But as The Smiths were advised to sever all contacts with Rough Trade , they decided to drop Easterhouse from the tour . |
| 20 | Their first auction in Moscow was successful because they managed to obtain permission from the Soviet authorities to export a group of Russian paintings from the Twenties and Thirties . |
| 21 | The man half carried , half pulled her into a nearby pub , where he propped her in a Windsor chair and went to fetch water from the bar . |
| 22 | Trent saw Mariana up on the forest edge when he went to fetch wood from the carport . |
| 23 | How Theda kept her countenance throughout the drive home she never knew , but somehow , perhaps by dint of dwelling on the attention paid her by Finchingfield and Tiverton , she managed to divert Rose from the dangerous topic of Lady Usk 's strange conduct . |
| 24 | And the smaller man was at Holly 's back , his knee at Holly 's shoulder blades and his fingers deep in the spare folds of Holly 's overcoat , and he pulled and wrenched to drag Holly from the hole , and Holly knew his stale breath as he hissed and heaved to prise Holly clear . |
| 25 | At night the beaches flamed with bonfires lit to extract lime from the coral , which was then mixed with coconut oil to form the white cement with which the hulls were caulked . |
| 26 | Unlike most other fabled beasts it preferred to scavenge carrion from the forest floor rather than kill for fresh meat . |
| 27 | This country was bankrupt , and had to borrow money from the United States of America to keep going , and er , Russia had just had a revolution and was still in chaos . |
| 28 | Thus Lacey ( 1970 ) , in his study of a secondary school , had to obtain permission from the chief education officer and the headmaster before he entered the school , as did Burgess ( 1983 ) . |
| 29 | But there were sourer feelings at Glasgow , which came out as Scotland 's second research institution , lagging significantly behind its main rival in the capital , and Aberdeen had to receive support from the funding ‘ safety net , ’ designed to avoid a reduction in this year 's budget . |
| 30 | The Accounting Standards Board continued to receive criticism from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales on what the institute still feels is a potential conflict between FRED3 on capital instruments , which it says ‘ concentrates on legal form ’ , and FRED4 on off balance sheet finance which ‘ emphasises the substance of transactions ’ . |