Example sentences of "they [vb past] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But police in Foxboro , Massa-chusetts , said there was less trouble than they expected from the 50,000 crowd . |
| 2 | Schools were asked to indicate the kind of support they requested from the various agencies . |
| 3 | Vale dominated the first 45 minutes against a Stockport side they dismissed from the second division play-off last Wednesday . |
| 4 | Mrs Nicholson meanwhile was doing rather well in her beautician business and when Jack was five they moved from the less-salubrious surroundings of Sixth Avenue in Neptune to Fifth Avenue in Neptune City which was , as Jack recognized years later , a slightly better position for a young boy . |
| 5 | They ranged from the sleazy to the downright soppy . |
| 6 | They ranged from the modest puffing of his travel book by a visiting American author on Radio 4 to the screening of pre-launch films about the making of big budget movies such as Gandhi . |
| 7 | They ranged from the self-pitiful ( ‘ Be nice to me — I gave blood today ’ ) to the egotistical ( ‘ I helped save a life today ’ ) to the plain daft ( ‘ Look at me — I gave blood ’ ) . |
| 8 | They crashed from the raised platform at the stern , down among the feet , of the rowers who hastily jumped out of their way . |
| 9 | They fled from the marauding Malays of earlier times ; they flee from the approach of any stranger today ; they flee from any imagined threatening event or confrontation . |
| 10 | By and large they fell in happily with the exhortations they received from the Arab world not to take any unauthorized political initiatives . |
| 11 | In the north-west , too , in Galicia , the rebels quickly triumphed , thanks to the assistance they received from the Civil Guard in overcoming the resistance of loyal troops and civilians . |
| 12 | They came from the right hon. Member for Brent , North ( Sir R. Boyson ) ; from the hon. Member for Hendon , South ( Mr. Marshall ) ; from the hon. Member for Lancaster ( Dame E. |
| 13 | They came from the armed forces , from war work , from factory , farm , workshop and office . |
| 14 | From the 1960s to the 1980s , they came from the impoverished north-eastern states — Paraiba , Pernambuco , Bahia and Minas Gerais — to find shelter , food and livelihood in a city that has expelled them . |
| 15 | As for the clothes , money and jewellery sported by many locals , they came from the gruesome supply of drowned bodies that were washed ashore each morning on the high tide . |
| 16 | They came from the four corners of the world , east and west , north and south , and they spoke many languages . |
| 17 | Encouraged by the pride of the town authorities , the Guy Fawkes celebrations provided an annual explosion for the town 's poor : deprived as they had been of saints ' days with the advent of Puritanism , they came from the miserable hovels cramped in the town 's back alleys to protest not only against the symbols of oppression but also , in bad years , against the local oligarchy . |
| 18 | They came from the big houses down the loch or over the pass towards Loch Lomond , or the castle at Inverary , from miles and miles , little girls in furred and caped coats and dresses gathered into heavy bows behind the cascades of ringlets . |
| 19 | Denis wondered sometimes if they came from the same father and mother . |
| 20 | These characteristics very considerably , but similar patterns can be found in several different churches and one can be fairly confident they came from the same workshop . |
| 21 | They came from the same country . |
| 22 | I er I did n't buy them and he sent us three boxes and they came from the same warehouse . |
| 23 | Although there is no precise information about the provenance of all of these finds , it is reasonable to assume that they came from the original excavation of the ‘ villa ’ or from adjacent sites . |
| 24 | If soldiers could find a defender from outside their number ( as they did in the poet Thomas Hoccleve , who pleaded that greater respect be paid to their economic predicament in old age ) , more often than not they suffered from the verbal and literary lash of preachers , moralists and other writers . |
| 25 | As for the women , he said , they suffered from the same sort of things — depression and sometimes guilt . |
| 26 | In this they suffered from the same defects as the streltsy , the small force of regular infantry originally set up during Ivan the Terrible 's reign . |
| 27 | When the seals , which belonged to Rose Cuthbert , were stolen the police said they dated from the pre-Ming dynasty . |
| 28 | Although many of his patients were , statistically speaking , ‘ abnormal ’ , that is , they differed from the average person in their group , they were nearer to the ‘ normal ’ in the evaluative sense , that is , in having some rational understanding of themselves . |
| 29 | Their tusks were gnarled and they differed from the older Daurog in one remarkable and savage aspect : ridges of long , black spikes grew from the fronts of their bodies ; the central , vertical line of thorns ran down on to the twisting , restless sex organs that hung from their rotund bellies . |
| 30 | The raising of a ‘ grain curtain ’ is threatening the economic stability of those countries which have lost the protection they enjoyed from the former Soviet empire . |