Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Huy had returned to his house in order to work out a way of getting into the brothel known by the impious name of the Glory of Set — Nebamun had been right , he found that he simply could not let the whole thing drop , and now there was a friend 's death to be avenged — when the message had come for him from the palace compound . |
| 2 | He said , ‘ Sickness has given me this fortune that this sultan has come to my side , at morn so health and well being have accrued to me from the arrival of this King without retinue . |
| 3 | Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met . |
| 4 | Then words had come to him from the sky . |
| 5 | In fact , he was so happy with the idea that had come to him from the writer , Peter Shaffer , he began the serious rethink of his career which friends like Lance Percival had been thinking for some time was overdue . |
| 6 | He had adopted his slighting manner , he knew , to protect himself from the attraction which she had possessed for him from the first moment that he had seen her . |
| 7 | The shapes of the things we make are , as a general rule , imposed upon them from the outside : we do not make ‘ embryo ’ machines which acquire complex shapes by intrinsic processes . |
| 8 | Those forces that make agencies fail to generate change also make them slow to respond to changes that are thrust upon them from the outside . |
| 9 | Finally , at the fifteenth count , Q had 1,704 voted transferred to him from the surplus of McDowell ( PD ) , elected , who had had votes transferred to him from twelve other candidates , F , H , B , Cr , O'S , E , M , R , S , McA , B and D. |
| 10 | An image copy of the Working-Set is taken whenever a new dictionary range is transferred to it from the Main Database . |
| 11 | The exact date of the Vendôme charter , in which Count Bouchard gave full details of the military service owed to him from the area of Vendôme , is still controversial ; but it is now accepted as an authentic document of the time of Fulk Nerra or Geoffrey Martel . |
| 12 | But Sally was so good , Luckily I 'd remembered to pack the Farley 's Rusks and she had those mixed up with boiled water the guard got for me from the restaurant car . ’ |
| 13 | At one of them sat the men who , she was sure , had jeered at her from the wall beside the petrol pumps and were now slapping down playing cards and shouting Ventidue ! with much of their remaining strength . |
| 14 | The time had come to splash out to the tune of forty quid a head for the eight members of his party who had travelled with him from the Forest of Arden to Sussex by the Sea . |
| 15 | The heads of the wadis are very abrupt and there is no evidence of water having spilled into them from the plateau surface : on the other hand caves within the wadis may well have been formerly occupied by springs during a period of higher rainfall . |
| 16 | Aha and that gets rid of it from the front page . |
| 17 | Likely it was because she had recognised in him from the first the trait matching her own : the ability to make money , for especially was she enamoured of his Sunday second-hand car-sales and of the fact that he insisted on working on that day and handling this side of the business himself . |
| 18 | A minute more and she was certain she had walked further than the distance from the van to where Sniffy had called to her from the undergrowth . |
| 19 | Harry 's ghost called to her from the stone skull of the castle . |
| 20 | ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ was borne to them from the enemy lines , time and again — into the land between the opposing armies , through their own lines , and away into the darkness . |
| 21 | Grey-haired and with a grey moustache beneath his aquiline nose , the man who had peered at her from the utility truck when she had stopped on the highway was not difficult to recognise . |
| 22 | When they had recovered they hurriedly cooked and ate the ration of cold rice they had brought with them from the barracks and swallowed a mouthful or two of water . |
| 23 | She was busy at the tap over in the far corner of the cemetery , filling the empty bottle she had brought with her from the house . |
| 24 | But ‘ it was evidently all she owned ; it was the home she had brought with her from the Fatherland , and would be the home she would set up on the prairie ’ . |
| 25 | Immediately the anger and irritation he had brought with him from the house erupted in a howl of anger . |
| 26 | Edmund arrives to find Emily 's cat has got at the lobsters and broken her beautiful china ; and in a moment of quiet at the end of his visit a boring neighbour ( well known to him from the letters ) makes her way in — and alas , like most bores who are funny in letters , she is not so in real life . |
| 27 | It is the most potent poison known to us from the entire animal world . |
| 28 | Let us take the usable answers ( a ) — ( f ) for Question 2 and determine what antecedents and consequences are known to us from the text . |
| 29 | But for many stall-fed cattle and pigs the crops are brought to them from the fields . |
| 30 | Further funding will cover , in part at least , the shortfall between the amount allocated to them from the common fund and their total expenditure . |