Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From a three-hour flight , at the outside , when he 'd only flown from London to Helsinki on the last lap ? |
| 2 | If you 'd just rung from Bryn 's place I could have at least made myself presentable , cariad ! ’ |
| 3 | I do n't suppose old Pope Leo the Tenth sat around gazing at the latest thing he 'd just commissioned from Michelangelo , for instance . |
| 4 | Of their 42 MdBs — all of them as we noted earlier elected from lists — no less than 24 were women , because women had been given on average higher list rankings than men . |
| 5 | And in all that time she 'd never heard from Jez , nor even from her parents . |
| 6 | The thing had gone on so long they 'd actually retired from nursing . |
| 7 | Hanoverian Whiggery also became more divorced from association with the cause of Dissent . |
| 8 | She waited until the glare of the headlights hid finally faded from view . |
| 9 | He felt completely separated from life . |
| 10 | Some of those which did worse benefited from funds under France 's 1976 peri-infomatics plan . |
| 11 | Later generations were frequently reminded that they were once members of a slave community whom the Lord had mercifully redeemed from bondage . |
| 12 | Fleeing across the western deserts , abandoned by all but his immediate family , Dara was eventually betrayed by Jiwan Khan , a local chieftain whom Dara had personally saved from death only a few years before . |
| 13 | ‘ Your father had only qualified from Edinburgh a couple of years before . |
| 14 | The Daily Express had arrived in his absence and its front page confirmed what he had already heard from Mrs Pettifer up at the Manor . |
| 15 | Mr Beltrami would tell the jury that on several occasions during the past four years McGuinness had spoken to him in detail about his part in the Ayr murder ; and as he has a commanding presence and deep , authoritative voice , his evidence would have gone far to confirm in the minds of the jury what they had already heard from Mrs McGuinness . |
| 16 | He had added two new candidates , the Acanthiza ewingi and the Strepera arguta , to the list of native Tasmanian species , making a total of 12 , four of which he had already named from specimens sent to him before he left England , and had now succeeded in seeing all of these alive in their native habitat . |
| 17 | Although still some months short of his fifteenth birthday , Richard had already discovered from experience that there is a critical relationship between the piquancy of a secret and the number of people who can keep it . |
| 18 | Charges against the officials , who , if found guilty , faced prison terms of up to five years , were brought on behalf of 27 affected haemophiliacs , some of whom had already died from AIDS . |
| 19 | Eamonn de Stafort , public relations officer for SPAG , said two cattle had already died from lead poisoning but it was not certain whether dust or water pollution was responsible : ‘ What we are worried about is what will happen when the lake starts to dry up completely ’ . |
| 20 | This group had already trekked from Pochala on the Ethiopian border ; some of the boys had been living a transitory existence for four years . |
| 21 | Most stony meteorites formed at that time as did the irons , which had already solidified from cores or pools of molten metal that lay within their small parent bodies . |
| 22 | His wife had already arrived from Wales . |
| 23 | The Waste lay on a high part of the forest so that when they reached it the sun , which had already sunk from sight in the valleys , was still poised above the dark low edge of the distant forest . |
| 24 | Then I read my log of a 1973 visit , which had utterly gone from memory , and dug out some poor slides taken then . |
| 25 | A volunteer who had lately returned from China where she had seen another aspect of the refugee problem spent her first evening at Dovercourt simply observing the children . |
| 26 | The raging optimism which it had instilled in him last night , under whose influence he had finally escaped from Merymose 's story , was now replaced by a simple whimpering plea to whatever god listened to self-pitying hangover sufferers just to let him be all right again , his own man , as soon as possible . |
| 27 | The news she had just received from Dorothy 's doctor had come as a dreadful shock , and for the moment she could not trust herself to speak . |
| 28 | The BBC had just moved from Savoy Hill to Broadcasting House . |
| 29 | There he stood leaning against it , his arms outspread , one cheek pressed on to the black wood , with his breath coming in gasps , as if he had just surfaced from drowning . |
| 30 | The author was an Englishman , Dr Farrar , who had just died from typhus . |