Example sentences of "they [vb past] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conversation between the four of them ranged from the trial and Venice itself to the difficulties besetting the people who were trying to build a better , more humane world than the old one on the wreckage left by the war . |
| 2 | The general occupational picture of black sportsmen 's parents is consistent with the rest of the first generation Caribbeans in the UK and as nearly all of them came from the West Indies ( mostly from Jamaica , but others from Dominica , Antigua , St Kitts , St Lucia , Montserrat and Guyana and fewer still from Trinidad , Nevis and Barbados and a small number from West Africa ) this is not unusual . |
| 3 | all three of them came from the pub , |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At a junction one of them stepped from the Sierra and opened fire on the police car with a sawn-off Kalashnikov rifle , said the prosecution , but the two officers were not injured . |
| 6 | One of them stepped from the Sierra with the Kalashnikov and aimed it at the police car . |
| 7 | But her vast collection of hoary old Jewish jokes , most of them pinched from the Dead Sea Scrolls , are greeted with paroxysms of guffaws and rolling in the aisles . |
| 8 | Utterly absorbed with their cooking , none of the Halflings had noticed the Wolf Riders as they sprung from the mountain valley , neatly enveloping the camp and driving a wedge between them and the rest of the Emperor 's army . |
| 9 | The three men got away with six times the amount they expected from the raid on a West Auckland Post Office . |
| 10 | Ten minutes later , Mr and Mrs Crumwallis , returning earlier than they expected from the wine and cheese do , heard even from their quarters the noise from the boarding section . |
| 11 | But the further they got from the area , the easier it became . |
| 12 | The further they got from the rave the more bodies they had to step over . |
| 13 | The Komsomols themselves knew they did not understand the instructions they got from the party cell , and said so , but received no advice as a result . |
| 14 | Tamar had no alternative but to do as he said , and they rode from the yard without another word . |
| 15 | are few in number ( 84 , most of them Roman Catholic ) , and they arose from the government 's offer in 1936 to pay 50–75% of the cost of building new secondary schools . |
| 16 | But , for all that effort and the manner in which they attacked from the kick-off , I believe they deserved that try . |
| 17 | Pensioner members who wish to take up this suggestion may do so by writing to the Honorary finance Officer stating when they retired/resigned from the Bank and quote their membership/staff number and , in their letter , incorporate a clear request that all or part of the sum be donated to the Frank Holden Defence Fund . . . |
| 18 | As they approached from the South , the pilots watched the flyingboat go down and land at Kalafrana , but at that moment Hancock saw two Bf109Es approaching , and thought for a moment that they were about to attack the Hurricanes . |
| 19 | During World War I they moved from the United States to Britain , where Grey Walter spent the rest of his life . |
| 20 | They moved from the galley to the main living area of the wherry . |
| 21 | They moved from the East End of London to Woodford Green in Essex , where she concentrated on her writing . |
| 22 | Shafts of red sunlight illuminated the timbers as they moved from the support of one building to another across a street filled with people . |
| 23 | They moved from the welfare approach i.e. ‘ bringing the wonders of modern medical science to the people ’ through a technological approach , part of which was the training of paramedics to resolve the problem of a shortage of health personnel . |
| 24 | They moved from the sitting room to the dining room . |
| 25 | Expert systems--computer programmes which perform the role of professional experts--have had a mixed reception since they moved from the research lab into industry and commerce . |
| 26 | They moved from the rug to the king-size bed for a second demonstration , after which they lay entwined . |
| 27 | They rose from the table with Daisy stressing the need for a heater that could not be knocked over by cats . |
| 28 | Some of his little ways had indeed been quite surprising in the past , seeing that they ranged from the quartering of badgers , rescued from a baiting , in her coal-shed to the introduction of separate limbs and even of whole orphans for dissection when they were in good supply towards the end of winter ; but she had grown used to them little by little . |
| 29 | In taking into account the user of the vehicle which they actually found or which they inferred from the practice of the previous owner it seems to me they did not err . |
| 30 | 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 . |