Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result Mrs Pankhurst asked them to withdraw from the WSPU , and the militant suffragette movement split off into the ‘ Peths ’ and the ‘ Panks ’ , with Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence helping to found the non-violent Votes for Women Fellowship and the Women 's Freedom League . |
| 2 | We invited you to highlight from a list of adjectives how best you would describe our tuition services . |
| 3 | After entering I found it came from a little sister of those drowned Children , that was singing to a bundle of clouts , rudely put together to look like a Doll , which she held in her arms . |
| 4 | Frequently he would stop on his walk around the teams on a Sunday , and at least on one occasion he advised me to break from the scrum more often ( in those days airmen scrum-halfs played to orders ) . |
| 5 | But because these interests in land were protected by personal and not by the real actions , they developed a set of legal characteristics which caused them to differ from the interests classed as real property . |
| 6 | I had never seen a bank nurse before and assumed she came from the Natwest . |
| 7 | Berger 's race was ruined by electrically-related gearbox problems , which caused him to start from the pit lane , and then a resultant overheating engine , which caused his retirement after four laps . |
| 8 | Dropping the bedding in her arms she held on to him and probably prevented him falling from the narrow landing down the stairway . |
| 9 | There are no women contenders , unless Imelda Marcos is included : she would be eligible if the government allowed her to return from the United States , and if she survived any legal moves against her . |
| 10 | This label allowed us to start from the simple proposition that in some classrooms more than one teacher was present and to explore without preconception what they were doing . |
| 11 | ‘ My father , Dewi Morgan taught me shoemaking from the time I was a little girl , ’ she said quickly , almost resentfully , ‘ and I 'm better at the work than many men . ’ |
| 12 | She spun into the bathroom and locked the door , smiling to herself as she heard him leap from the bed , too late to catch her . |
| 13 | He thought he heard him chuckle from the shadows once , but his eyes could not penetrate the gloom . |
| 14 | Then we heard him shouting from the depths : Is anybody there ? he was telling us he had broken both legs , and there was a lot of blood . |
| 15 | Sammy watched them digging from a corner of the garden . |
| 16 | What little human warmth I required I garnered from the aunts and cousins , who still came to Cliff Top for their annual holiday . |
| 17 | ‘ I watched you hurtle from the dining-room . |
| 18 | He watched her go from the room and felt an urge to drag her back . |
| 19 | She watched him climb from the bed and put on his dressing gown . |
| 20 | A moment later the men who watched it explode from the verandah felt their ragged clothes begin to flap and flutter in the blast . |
| 21 | I 'm sure it was Jan egging him on that got him expelled from the Rainbow Crche . |
| 22 | When the King was a boy , rebels from the West Country made him flee from the city whilst the pretender , Perkin Warbeck , actually laid siege to Exeter . ’ |
| 23 | " Mrs Mott 's brownies " , said Sara when she saw them emerge from the picnic basket . |
| 24 | so we saw them , er saw them actually because we live in a flat , and we saw them coming from the station , er one , one Saturday morning |
| 25 | And both men put their arms round the children , and felt them flinch from the touch of strangers . |
| 26 | Although I slipped in the odd prop or two , and tried to bend briefs towards my interests , on the whole I felt I watched from the sidelines as the plethora of ecology and natural history books of the 1980s appeared . |
| 27 | He stood up and took his stole from the shelf where he always kept it . |
| 28 | Four years after her husband died she returned from the United States to marry her foster father , Mr Taylor , who was then a widower : |
| 29 | And when the Virgin Mary died she rose from the dead too ; not just her soul went up to heaven , but her body too . ’ |
| 30 | I said that I understood she came from the Continent , and she told me that she was born in Denmark . |