Example sentences of "they [vb past] from the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is known that many families emigrated to Canada during the fifty years from 1818 to 1868 and a great number of them came from the crofts . |
| 2 | A little later , as filmmakers began to expend the medium 's storytelling capacities , they drew from the techniques developed for the magic lantern or diorama and audiences saw a woman interrupting her husband in the act of kissing the maid , or a miller grappling with chimney sweeps in front of a windmill . |
| 3 | As he came from Palace I suppose he was involved in that thrashing they received from the Scousers a bit ago ( was it 9–1 or something ? ) . |
| 4 | He spoke very shrewdly and at alarming speed , in a low voice that seemed to come from elsewhere ; though his lips might be moving in front of Arthur , the shafts of help would sound as if they came from the wings or the orchestra pit . |
| 5 | They came from the badlands of the world : Queensland , New Mexico , Alberta and Aberdeen . |
| 6 | Her parents were not Parisians , they came from the provinces and Jeanne herself combined innocence with imaginative courage . |
| 7 | They came from the deeps of her heart and rose to a wail of anguish . |
| 8 | They came from the villae of Bothem , Salehem and Widohem , beyond the Rhine . |
| 9 | One study of day-release trade union students found that the most important benefit they identified from the courses was not simply enhanced skills and smoother communications with management , but a general gain in confidence ; judged by the ‘ needs-meeting ’ paradigm , it was an overwhelming success . |
| 10 | A hundred million pounds was advanced by the British government for tenants to buy out the farms they rented from the landlords . |
| 11 | When it was over and they climbed from the cars Danny needed a considerable amount of calming as his excitement seemed to have reached a peak . |
| 12 | Individuals and other creatures would be recognised by the sounds they made , or by the echoes they returned from the sounds you made . |
| 13 | John Batstone , secretary of the Teesside-based North-East Coast Pension Campaign Committee , said : ‘ We hope the weight of pressure will make British Steel realise that they are being rather immoral in disposing of the surplus , which they inherited from the days of nationalisation . |
| 14 | They scrambled from the police car and headed down a narrow alleyway , their hands resting lightly on their sheathed batons . |
| 15 | Trailing 2–1 after the foursomes Ireland never really threatened to take the four points they needed from the singles . |
| 16 | On an afternoon in late February they climbed to the great Iron Age hill-fort at Dowsborough , from where they looked down on ‘ a magnificent scene , curiously spread out for even minute inspection ’ ; and on other occasions they watched from the hills as the effects of the weather unfolded over the landscape below . |
| 17 | And they watched from the sidelines as Mr and Mrs Grierson between them brought up the baby , Carla . |
| 18 | But the resistance people , allowed to keep the arms they took from the Iraqis , have their own network in the police and the army . |
| 19 | For one thing , as I can report , having kept an eye on proceedings since they disappeared from the newspapers and TV , all the witnesses are affected by the disease of official language . |
| 20 | I mean th they looked From the pictures they look fairly heavy like and I 've never handled a a riveting machine but I 've |
| 21 | The Maxteds , for some reason I could never fathom , were ashamed of earning the money they did from the movies . |
| 22 | The porcelain produced at Chelsea was said to compare with Dresden 's fine china and there was always keen competition amongst dealers who waited at the doors to purchase pieces as soon as they emerged from the ovens . |
| 23 | They emerged from the trees , and Riven could see that the open space before the river was alive with the great grey-furred beasts and their cold eyes . |
| 24 | I surveyed the area between Manchester 's twin vinyl take-aways ( Virgin and HMV ) , carefully selecting dowdy individuals with copies of the album under their arms as they emerged from the doorways . |
| 25 | Coleridge and Wordsworth felt confident that the Monthly Magazine would give £5 for the poem , and they were already discussing details of the plot as they descended from the hills at West Quantoxhead . |
| 26 | Some had brought instructions for things they wanted from the bazaars . |