Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But typewriters we had problems with because , if they went in for repair , you never got them back from the Ordinance Core , and so at one place in Tunbridge Wells we handed a typewriter in and because the army were allowed to buy greaseproof paper , we bought a lot of greaseproof paper which came in the package of a new typewriter . |
| 2 | It was a glimmering he had , but no more than that , and she cast him down from the height of her knowledge . |
| 3 | Great flights of fire-breathing beasts swooped on the armies of the night , and drove them back from the heart of Ulthuan to the shores of the island-continent . |
| 4 | He lifted her down from the train , kissed her swiftly , then began to lead her towards the taxi rank . |
| 5 | The Livre des Coutumes of Bordeaux contains a note that ‘ [ In 1259 ] king Henry did homage for Bordeaux , Bayonne and all the land of Gascony [ Gasconha ] which was [ then ] free allod [ franc en alo ] to Louis , king of France … but let it be known that this Gascony was the most free allod that the king of England had , before … king Henry received it back from the French king in homage ’ . |
| 6 | He hauled me up from the bowels of the villa , took off his jacket and placed it tenderly round my shoulders . |
| 7 | And now Jimmy had taken her hand as she hauled him back from the desk and … |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not good at waiting , ’ she persisted stubbornly , as he handed her down from the cruiser . |
| 9 | The others hauled her back from the edge . |
| 10 | The tepidity of most British cinema during the 1950s made Anderson resistant to the values of commercial filmmaking , and this cut him off from the possibility of developing his critical argument through filmmaking . |
| 11 | He scooped it up from the desk and threw it into Duvall 's face . |
| 12 | The AIB investigators were somewhat baffled as to the cause of the accident until the RAF pathologist rang them up from the local mortuary . |
| 13 | Something in their need of her pulled her back from the seductive slide into oblivion . |
| 14 | Mary pulled her back from the window and closed it . |
| 15 | I called him in from the garden . ’ |
| 16 | She was a gentle quiet girl , deeply thoughtful , and we hit it off from the start . |
| 17 | She could go down in history as the leader who pulled us back from the brink . ’ |
| 18 | A fourth — a girl — had an epileptic fit as rescuers brought them down from the Lake District peak at Ullswater in Cumbria . |
| 19 | ‘ We put them in , me an ’ my friends , brought them down from the lake . |
| 20 | When , in 1974 an American friend brought me over from the States a copy of Elizabeth Gould-Davis 's The First Sex , I had a scholar 's confirmation of my conclusions . |
| 21 | The officials who sent them off from the ports with the loaded railway-wagons gave them rations for the number of days which the grain would in normal times take to its destination . |
| 22 | She was smiling and what she said almost brought him up from the bed , his fists flailing . |
| 23 | It was the Lord Ba'al 's love for the virgin Anat that brought him back from the dead , in response to her tears . |
| 24 | The way she brought him back from the dead , what can you say ? |
| 25 | The path was bumpy in places , and sent her up from the saddle and down again violently , but she did n't pause to think about bruises or anything but getting to the bridge before the van . |
| 26 | ‘ I brought it back from the brink , made the farm , forestry , the shoot self-supporting . |
| 27 | Well just , just a final point , would it be worthwhile er informing the District Council of the history of the site , Chairman , because they may not be aware , as the , as the new owners of the site , they took it over from the Southwell District Council on reorganization . |
| 28 | I said there was to be a sale , but I would ask the solicitor ; and afterwards , when he came to take the barometer away , he took it down from the wall very , very gently . |
| 29 | I took it down from the shelf in my locker and went out of doors . |
| 30 | Revenue from normal trading fell , but the club made it up from the transfer market . |