Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] from an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At midday , we were standing in the stern when a voice hailed us from an upper deck . |
| 2 | It is the result of a six-year trek around the world by the Kienholzes which took them from an Indian reservation in South Dakota to China and got them thinking about how the chance of one 's birth is all important in one 's life . |
| 3 | Some say he took it from an Indian funeral chant , others from a poem by a U.S. poet Mary Fry , though no one seems to know anything else about the lady . |
| 4 | The 16-year-old forgot her contact lenses at her hotel and only a desperate delivery in the nick of time saved her from an embarrassing night at the Virginia Slims Championships . |
| 5 | Whatever Massim 's cousin Sunil did for a living , he did it from an old-fashioned headmaster 's desk and a small personal computer . |
| 6 | They may not have made him the finest British light comedian since his hero David Niven , but at least they rescued him from an uncertain future in Britain where he may have ended up as a cross between Roy Castle and Ronnie Corbett . |
| 7 | The thieves stole it from an industrial estate at Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire , where Robin Macdonald runs a small bakery . |