Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] from the third [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The softly spoken command came from the third man , who had remained silent until now . |
| 2 | According to an apocryphal work dating from the third century , Thomas 's mission takes him even further . |
| 3 | Lifelike representations of Dicerorhinus in the form of bronze wine containers ( zun ) are known from the late Shang but also from as late as the Late Zou-Western Han period dating from the third century B.C. It was the transformation of the environment resulting from the spread of intensive agriculture that caused the rhinoceros , like the elephant , to retreat to the southernmost provinces of China and ultimately to abandon them completely . |
| 4 | For example , 80 per cent of our tin and 75 per cent of our bauxite come from the Third World . |
| 5 | The poem dates from the third millennium BC , and is a eulogistic account of the life of King Gilgamesh of Uruk in Mesopotamia . |
| 6 | He glanced down one passage to no avail , then tried the next , just soon enough to catch the porter emerging from the third door along . |
| 7 | The only optimistic statement came from the third cadre of military transport , which had recently held two cell meetings . |
| 8 | The answer comes from the third element of classical foundationalism ; this is that our beliefs about our present sensory states are infallible . |
| 9 | Two student detainees who died in the week July 8-14 were said by official sources to have in one case jumped from the third floor and in the other to have died of wounds inflicted during arrest . |
| 10 | The agreement resulted from the third meeting of the Lao-Chinese Joint Border Committee . |
| 11 | About four-fifths of all phosphate raw material comes from the Third World . |