Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AT LEAST two people were killed and 80 injured when a car bomb exploded in the heart of the City of London last night in a suspected IRA attack timed to detract from the Tory General Election victory celebrations . |
| 2 | He had been beaten , threatened with knee-capping , burned on the neck with a cigarette and invited to jump from the open door of the speeding vehicle during the journey to the quarry at Furnace on Loch Fyne . |
| 3 | Emma tried to run from the falling post , which weighed 120lb , but tripped and fell . |
| 4 | A comedy of errors as Collegians tried to clear from a defensive line out presented McCall with the simplest of scores . |
| 5 | In an effort to salvage the protocol , other delegates have put together a counterproposal requiring any country that decided to mine under the terms the US proposed to withdraw from the entire environmental protocol and not just the mining clause . |
| 6 | Francis might have more to tell of these towns — of their poor and their beggars — whom he tried to raise from the dull misery of want to accept and bless their lot by enjoying poverty and simplicity as great as theirs . |
| 7 | He naturally tried to recover from the steep dive before striking the ground . |
| 8 | Unlike the UBR , the Community Charge sought to depart from the old rating system method of calculating local taxes . |
| 9 | It seemed to flow from a weaker to a stronger system , thus acting contrary to the Second Law of Thermodynamics . |
| 10 | I heard a voice which seemed to come from a long distance — ‘ Throw the bastard down . |
| 11 | If Labour suddenly seemed old and unelectable , a real youthful challenge to the Thatcher regime seemed to come from the new Social Democratic Party . |
| 12 | The Scottish accent seemed to come from the other side of the crowd . |
| 13 | The only glimmer of light she could see at the moment seemed to come from the cheerful faces of the Rafferty children whenever they arrived on the Four Winds doorstep . |
| 14 | The occasional remark passing seemed to come from an infinite distance , and be answered after a prolonged interval . |
| 15 | Even Daddy , wisest and kindest of men , seemed to suffer from the same delusion . |
| 16 | Part of this problem seemed to stem from the fundamental assumption of such theories that everyone is , initially at least , conventional ( the opposite of the assumption of classical criminology ) . |
| 17 | He heard a howl which seemed to rise from the very bowels of the earth : long , cruel and haunting . |
| 18 | We endeavoured to enquire from a black policeman . |
| 19 | It happened to lead from the old barracks ( still used for housing a garrison ) up to the hill pass above the town . |
| 20 | Sales have gone flat , with this year 's figure predicted to drop from an annual peak of 41 million to 36 million barrels . |
| 21 | As will be discussed in Chapter 10 , the first big generation of owner-occupiers began to retire from the 1960s onwards . |
| 22 | They turned , staying in the centre of Cheapside as the melting snow began to slide from the sloping tiled roofs . |
| 23 | The birth rate also began to fall from the 1870s , initially among the professional middle class . |
| 24 | It would appear that there was some increase in the marriage rates among those in their early twenties during the early 1920s , perhaps because of the delays caused by the First World War , and after 1934 , when the domestic economy began to revive from the worst excesses of the slump . |
| 25 | True enough , Morrissey disregarded his original bedsit self pity and began to write from the third person . |
| 26 | Unsuccessful at first , southern whaling began to flourish from the first decade of the 20th century , based initially at shore stations on South Georgia , later on pelagic fleets of factory ships and catchers . |
| 27 | The rain that night was unusually heavy , and water began to pour from a broken pipe on the church roof straight on to Fanny 's grave . |
| 28 | Yet the king-duke began to insist from the 1270s onwards that all allods were sub posse et dominio … regis et ducis ( ‘ under the power and dominion of the king-duke ’ ) . |
| 29 | And William began to run from the approaching cart , which was piled high with the bodies of the plague victims , and as he ran the streets became the familiar streets of his childhood and he knew that all the time he was running from the terrible cart he was getting closer and closer to the dark house by the railway embankment with its shuttered windows and its locked door , and that this was more terrible to him than anything in his history books . |
| 30 | The Labour Party objected strongly to Weizmann 's dismissal and threatened to withdraw from the year-old coalition unless the decision was abrogated . |