Example sentences of "it [vb past] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It failed from the start to live up to expectations in terms of sales abroad . |
| 2 | He knows that Grampian regional council is bound by statute to say how much it got from the sale ; it can not simply say that it will not tell anyone . |
| 3 | It arose from the child 's writing , from her awareness of audience and her commitment to communicating with them . |
| 4 | It arose from the digitisation of archived paper records of previous international surveys , so that the information could be stored on computer and made accessible to modern techniques of data retrieval , image analysis and interpretation . |
| 5 | Why is n't it shouted from the start so that everybody knows from the start who you are ? |
| 6 | In prehistoric times , if people made the horse feel anxious or afraid it would run like mad until it had seen the last of them : it fled from the problem , which reduced his fear and anxiety . |
| 7 | Then there is one big light airy sitting/dining room with the kitchen beyond it accessed from the sitting/dining room by part of the wall being taken away rather than a door , which allows the light from the equally tall and large kitchen window to permeate the sitting room , creating an airy light whole in a nice way . |
| 8 | Deep down , he had felt too much at home in the City to want to see it deleted from the Yggdrasil file . |
| 9 | It rose from the floor , out of the tattered grey wall-to-wall carpeting … |
| 10 | It stemmed from the outbreak of Minamata disease among the Japanese who had eaten fish and shellfish containing substantial quantities of organic mercury compounds — found to have originated from the direct discharge of factory effluent . |
| 11 | The advice it received from the firm was to bring its loans up to date , in particular the $18m credit line it had given to UMF which , PW noted , had consistently been trading at a loss . |
| 12 | In the windless valley , it dropped from the sky in vertical sheets . |
| 13 | During the war it had been stored ( for safety ! ) in the crypt of St Paul 's Cathedral , where it suffered from the effects of high explosive . |
| 14 | It spilled from the safety deposit boxes and washed over the floors of the rooms . |
| 15 | As it lifted from the Luftwaffe fighter base outside Berlin , Schellenberg undid his seat belt and reached for his briefcase . |
| 16 | In Britain it came from the craft unions which , due to the early date of industrialisation , were already well established in the workplace . |
| 17 | It 's , it 's really stocking stitch cos it came from the stocking machine did n't it ? |
| 18 | ‘ Richard looks so proud and handsome , ’ she related , and when it was said , it came from the heart , because it was what Tilly herself saw , the man whom Elizabeth had never stopped loving , and the man who had captured her own heart . |
| 19 | It explained everything , though she fought it , fought the nightmare truth of her growing feelings for him , her respect , her admiration , her jealousy , her pain , her longing to make him feel something for her , anything , so long as it came from the heart and not the body … |
| 20 | The same feeling of brooding menace wells up on his version of Presley 's ‘ Heartbreak Hotel ’ , only he decides to leave any anger on hold and transforms the rock ‘ n ’ roll classic into a haunting ballad that sounds as though it came from the pen of Edgar Allan Poe rather than that of Axton , Durden and Presley . |
| 21 | It came from the south |
| 22 | It came from the direction of the front steps , the imperative note in her tone being unmistakable . |
| 23 | It came from the direction of the strangely attired man in the dock , and the more observant members of the jury could see that this bell was attached to the end of the man 's hat . |
| 24 | It was the second Cultural Revolution but this time it came from the students and the workers and this time it was nonviolent , peaceful , gentle . |
| 25 | It came from the fortune teller . |
| 26 | Based upon his evaluation of the Senior Management Team conduct of assemblies , the Head of Department said that he would take any criticism of teaching skills very much to heart if it came from the DHS . |
| 27 | I read — I do not know whether it came from the Department of Energy or from Conservative central office ; I suspect that it was the latter — that privatisation of the coal industry will drive a stake through the heart of Dracula , the leader of the NUM . |
| 28 | It came from the paper 's Atticus column , and was a couple of years old — it looked as if Bill had n't yet got round to filing the latest news on Puddephat . |
| 29 | It came from the corner of the room where the rope hung down . |
| 30 | The winner came just after half-time … and for the third game running it came from the shooting boot of defender Paul Bodin … when was the last time a full back scored three goals in a row … who cares … this one was good enough to give Swindon victory … |