Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] from the [noun] [det] " in BNC.

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1 The sounds came from the left this time and were much nearer .
2 ‘ Last Christmas , customers queued from the basement all down the road for gift wrap ribbons , ’ recalls Annabel Lewis of VV Rouleaux .
3 Hussa arrived with her mother and while Shama eased herself on to the carpet and settled against a cushion , Hussa picked up one of the newspapers which a driver brought from the village each morning .
4 When a subject sought from the king some licence or privilege within the forest , the Justice was usually ordered to make a preliminary inquiry ad quod damnum — that is , to inquire by means of a local jury as to the extent of the loss which the Crown would suffer if the grant were made .
5 " Mounted troops pursued some of the crowd through Christian Street and the women threw from the windows all they could lay hands on .
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