Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [noun pl] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As this severely restricted the scope of what the agencies had been directed to search for , Shaughnessy felt confirmed in his suspicions that the government had something to hide and sought to obtain depositions from the officials who had signed the declarations . |
| 2 | As an indication of the partnership involved the Group agreed to accept invitations from the individual members to accommodate meetings . |
| 3 | Absent this year is the rich range of June drawings exhibitions timed to distract buyers from the major auction houses ' summer sales , leaving only Bellinger 's , and , in early July , Flavia Ormond 's . |
| 4 | Between 1313 and 1322 , with the help of Archbishop Reynolds , Edward II tried to extract grants from the clergy by means of their parliamentary proctors , but so obstinate were their objections and so counter-productive , politically as well as financially , were these attempts that by 1322 the king was content to seek subsidies through clerical assemblies and not parliament . |
| 5 | After her Essex Ladies team-mate Jenny Stoute had rushed on the track to embrace her , Gunnell then embarked on one of the slowest laps of honour imaginable as , draped in the Union Jack given to her by the crowd , she stopped to receive hugs from the fans . |
| 6 | After her Essex Ladies team-mate Jenny Stoute had rushed on the track to embrace her , Gunnell then embarked on one of the slowest laps of honour imaginable as , draped in the Union Jack given to her by the crowd , she stopped to receive hugs from the fans . |
| 7 | Shrub roses were trussed to let people pass ; signs erected to divert visitors from the non-scenic compost heap . |
| 8 | The western sectors of Berlin ( entirely surrounded by the Soviet core ) were cut off from all access by land to the West , as the Soviets tried to force concessions from the Western powers on the future shape of Germany . |
| 9 | He could expect to be " buried , his children to be apprenticed , his wife to be assisted in childbirth and his daughter helped to recover payments from the putative father of her illegitimate child " . |
| 10 | As my turn approached and the queue thinned , I was afforded an occasional glimpse of the Smiths as they moved to collect purchases from the shelves behind them . |
| 11 | The latter Liverpool-based agency , which offers electro-acupuncture treatment to drug-dependent people , opened in December 1985 , and soon began to attract clients from the Wirral area . |
| 12 | First there was the John Ryan era when the then coach declined to choose players from the leading club , Neath . |
| 13 | She stood up and began to clear dishes from the table . |
| 14 | In the second phase ( 1910–14 ) , baton-wielding police sought to protect strikebreakers from the wrath of pickets . |
| 15 | I started to take things from the house as well , y'know , little things that I thought would n't be noticed . |
| 16 | When the left-wing city council decided to ban cars from the city centre in the late seventies , they rushed the scheme through against considerable opposition from local businesses . |
| 17 | Wheels and parts of the cars ' undercarriage were scattered along the track as rescue workers struggled to pull survivors from the wreckage of the train in the Amsterdam suburb of Hoofddorp . |
| 18 | People gathered in groups outside the burger place ; others went to buy cigarettes from the Indian shop on the corner and then stood at the bus stop . |
| 19 | He stayed on in Rome after Anselm left , and managed to procure letters from the pope to the king of a different tenor from those entrusted to Anselm . |
| 20 | On the journey our eldest child picked up bubonic plague , and when the steamer moored at Chauk my wife managed to get medicines from the BOC Hospital shortly before it closed . |
| 21 | Although he preferred to train dancers from the age of nine , by the time the pantomime season came he had so many to cast he had to accept adults and teach them after they had finished a day 's work . |
| 22 | Having decided for themselves that the problem lay in the lack of will and determination on the part of the Indo-Chinese to join whole-heartedly with the French in resisting communism , the US had to obtain assurances from the French that a programme of French government will be developed ; national armies will be organized ; France will despatch sufficient additional armed forces to Indo-China to insure that the restoration of peace and internal security will be accomplished in accordance with the timetable of the overall military plan for Indo-China ( which made it sound more like a military parade than a war and that the French will eliminate their policy of colonialism . |
| 23 | Libya continued to resist pressures from the governments of the United States , the United Kingdom and France for the extradition to the UK of two Libyans , Abdelbaset Ali Mohammed al-Megrahi and Al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah , to stand trial on charges related to the 1988 Lockerbie bombing . |
| 24 | Now , when I was a prisoner of the French ( and , yes , that 's another story ) I had to clear corpses from the battle field . |
| 25 | Israel continued to reject requests from the United States to freeze its policy of settlement in the occupied territories [ see pp. 38309-10 ] . |
| 26 | And tonight its leading figures said that while Tom 's death was regretted , huntsmen had to protect themnselves from the saboteurs . |
| 27 | I had to watch bodies from the moment when they died and the warm life left them . |
| 28 | Previously they had to remove embers from the long fire-pit to lay on corrugated metal sheets , then embed the breadpans in the cinders and replace the hot sheets over the hole . |
| 29 | Press and television thronged to get words from the aircrew , S/L Dave Thomas said it was the ‘ passing of a great era ’ and of the campaign to keep XH558 flying that ‘ it reflects the affection in which the aircraft is held . ’ |
| 30 | The peer was silent but I knew he was following my progress intently because every now and then I had to brush aches from the surface of the uterus . |