Example sentences of "[vb past] its [noun pl] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surrounded by the slums of Portuguese and Arab immigrants , the campus drew its students from the middle classes , but did so under an authoritarian system of education that seemed hardly to have changed in 150 years . |
| 2 | He gave the example of a two-year Community Skills course in a local college that drew its recruits from the special schools . |
| 3 | After this paper was completed , the UK government announced its conclusions from the consultation process that had followed publication of the Green Paper on Abuse of Market Power in November 1992 . |
| 4 | Women left behind by the emigrants , ‘ widows ’ who had not heard from their husbands for decades , daughters growing up without fathers , without grandfathers , without brothers -once they too were old enough to leave — were hungry for men , everyone knew that , and the law made its profits from the devils — Greed and Lust and Envy — that scampered among humans playing a deadly tag in which all the players are caught and brought down , one by one . |
| 5 | Some 150 people were thought to have died in the Bougainville conflict before the government withdrew its forces from the island in June 1989 . |
| 6 | The Church of Ireland withdrew its schools from the plan which threatened that church 's dominance over the primary sector . |
| 7 | The enraged animal freed its antlers from the brambles and with a springing bound , crashed into Yanto 's protective cage of saplings . |