Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ a very long boy , with a very little head , and an open mouth of disproportionate capacity ’ , devotedly attached to Betty Higden who has rescued him from the workhouse in which he has been brought up , having been a foundling child . |
| 2 | It has carried me from the comfortable Salisbury suburb where a kind Scottish family have made me a home , to a rough Bulawayo farmstead . |
| 3 | Professor Black 's TGAT report , for all its expensive complexity , has saved us from the test-led teaching that seemed at one time inevitable . |
| 4 | The bread and the wine are consecrated with the reminder that ‘ through Jesus , God has freed us from the slavery of sin ’ and given us a life that is free of such bondage . |
| 5 | He has freed you from the burden of the rules of Holy Law . ’ |
| 6 | Shallow wells generally contain much water that has reached them from the surface , and this may bring varying amounts of contamination . |
| 7 | Marcos fairy tale A touching story has reached me from the Manila Times of how Ferdinand Marcos had planned to bequeath more than £2.5bn in gold to his beloved people , but fell ill before he could sign the will . |
| 8 | Tanaka 's latest works are the culmination of a process that has brought him from the flat and serial minimalism of lines of white cement blocks to such imposing works as ‘ Scenery comes vertical ’ , a bronze obelisk placed in front of a painting depicting the course of the Nile . |
| 9 | It has led him from the brooding atmosphere of his early novels to the limpid clarity of his last . |
| 10 | Erm a and that has , that has led us from the group back to the individual tenants , and one |
| 11 | ‘ The Mirror has taken it from the limited audience it has had right out into the open . |
| 12 | The stories about Strahinja tell of a classic conflict between love and duty when the hero 's wife falls in love with the Turk who has abducted her from the family home whilst her husband is away in Kruševac visiting his wife 's relatives , the powerful Jugovići family . |
| 13 | Mr Lawler has sent me from The Haven to collect the thirty brace of grouse he ordered , ’ Maggie said with a smile . |
| 14 | The tragic feature of deaf education , which has bedeviled it from the beginning , is the disagreement among educators about the best method of teaching the deaf and dumb . |
| 15 | He 's taken them from the old Fourth to the top three in the First Division . |
| 16 | he 's barred it from the house . |