Example sentences of "[vb past] from a single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And an achene is a small , single-seeded fruit that does not open , which you might mistake for a nut unless you know that it came from a single carpel . ) |
| 2 | We know that all the lapis lazuli used in the ancient Middle East came from a single source in the Badakshan Valley , Afghanistan , but this source does not contain wollastonite . |
| 3 | All ancient lapis came from a single source in Badakshan in Afghanistan . |
| 4 | Barrow-in-Furness , too , sprang from a single house , grew into a fishing village of about three hundred people by the 1840s , and by 1878 was a town of forty thousand . |
| 5 | The find could show how the vast range of armoured algae evolved from a single ancestor 230 million years ago , one shaped like a sphere bristling with what look like washing-up bowls . |
| 6 | David Nock , who was 16 , from Leckhampton in Cheltenham , was jogging home from a disco when he died from a single stab wound to the heart . |
| 7 | Isodore Johnson , who was a twenty-nine , died from a single stab wound to the neck . |
| 8 | Peter Savage , 53 , a married man , died from a single stab wound at Doncaster Royal Infirmary . |
| 9 | Barrow grew from a single house into a fishing village of some 300 people by the 1840s and into a town of 40,000 people a generation later . |
| 10 | As stated earlier , it is easy to misinterpret the unreliable later part of the curve ( for example , the sharp decrease in the estimated ulcer free survival of patients treated with cisapride that occurred at week 52 resulted from a single ulcer recurrence ) . |