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 | I heard a voice which seemed to come from a long distance — ‘ Throw the bastard down . |
| 10 | If Labour suddenly seemed old and unelectable , a real youthful challenge to the Thatcher regime seemed to come from the new Social Democratic Party . |
| 11 | The Scottish accent seemed to come from the other side of the crowd . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The occasional remark passing seemed to come from an infinite distance , and be answered after a prolonged interval . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | He heard a howl which seemed to rise from the very bowels of the earth : long , cruel and haunting . |
| 16 | We endeavoured to enquire from a black policeman . |
| 17 | It happened to lead from the old barracks ( still used for housing a garrison ) up to the hill pass above the town . |
| 18 | Sales have gone flat , with this year 's figure predicted to drop from an annual peak of 41 million to 36 million barrels . |
| 19 | They turned , staying in the centre of Cheapside as the melting snow began to slide from the sloping tiled roofs . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The Labour Party objected strongly to Weizmann 's dismissal and threatened to withdraw from the year-old coalition unless the decision was abrogated . |
| 23 | Similarly , it is shrewd of him to play for the internationalist vote after a prolonged period of sullen Little Englandism during which Labour threatened to withdraw from the Common Market and called into question this country 's role within Nato . |
| 24 | Following the Rhineland-Palatinate election the CSU threatened to withdraw from the governing CDU/CSU/FDP coalition at federal level , but after a five-hour meeting on May 8 the parties agreed to work towards common policies on such issues as abortion and immigration , and to reassert their traditional values . |
| 25 | Extra-parliamentary agitation began to shift from the unemployed movement to opposition to fascism , despite the fact that the unemployed demonstrations continued to attract popular attention . |
| 26 | Using early documentary evidence , Olive Geddes guides the reader expertly through the first four centuries of the sport , shedding light on its birth , the techniques and equipment used , and above all , its social standing as it began to develop from an outlawed activity to the world 's most internationally popular game . |
| 27 | Moreover , even when access to primary materials began to improve from the late 1950s and early 60s , the major contours of the liberal approach remained unchanged . |
| 28 | She began to tremble from the sheer sexual magnetism emanating from him . |
| 29 | A terrible roaring sound began to emanate from the doomed building , and the bystanders were ordered to get well away . |
| 30 | It was only in 1742 , moreover , that the militia there began to recruit from the urban as well as the rural population . |