Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] from the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He presumed the noise came from the same motorbike he had seen on his first day at school and he asked Mould about it . |
| 2 | However , in this case , it would not be necessary to determine that all the quanta came from the same direction : it would be enough to observe that they all arrived within a very short time interval to be reasonably confident that they were coming from the same burst . |
| 3 | Do you find that , as Adrienne Rich wrote of Marie Curie , ‘ her wounds came from the same source as her power ? ’ |
| 4 | In conclusion , Italy and Sicily suffered from the same divisions and neighbourly jealousies as Old Greece , jealousies made more dangerous by racial friction and the threat of native risings ( cranky philosophical activists did not help ) . |
| 5 | An Armenian whose family came from Erzerum or Kars is neighbour to other Armenians whose parents or grandparents came from the same towns , just as Palestinians from Haifa — or from Mrs Zamzam 's village of Um Al-Farajh — now live in refugee camps next to those whose homes were in the same places , sometimes in the very same streets , in what was Palestine . |
| 6 | ‘ The most fortunate thing was that we found out he came from a village in Essex and by sheer chance Mr Woods came from the same county and knew the same village which gave them something to talk about . ’ |
| 7 | It 's more than two years since schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton disappeared from the same area . |
| 8 | The women in this book fall essentially into two groups — those who come directly from certain peasant societies of India , Pakistan and Bangladesh and those whose families migrated from the same peasant backgrounds first to East Africa and then to Britain . |
| 9 | Agnes Baines , 81 , who lives on the farm , described how flames leapt from the former cowsheds on Old Hall Farm , The Heath , Tendring . |
| 10 | Yet each vision arose from the same landscape , and each had its own particular beauty and power . |
| 11 | The warning came from the all party , defence select committee , whose Conservative chairman said the country 's defence capability had already been pared to the bone . |
| 12 | The general run of shoppers would not believe that the two girls came from the same family . |
| 13 | I gave one deflection burst from port beam at about 350 yards and one careful stern burst from the same distance , but could not even keep pace with this shallow dive . |
| 14 | and myself or as he was better known , came through B Seventeen Transition School at in Florida together and where the crews were formed so that the names in the Army of course are worked alphabetically , so everybody on my crew is trained with everybody on crew and their last name is just ahead erm in the alphabetic in the class that they were in , so that my navigator came from the same school , the same navigation class as . |
| 15 | A preliminary meeting in Manchester in October 1853 got the support of the BFASS committee ; when an inaugural gathering was held Sturge and Thompson spoke from the same platform and it was resolved that the Manchester Anti-Slavery Union should become an auxiliary of the BFASS . |
| 16 | Quite clearly ‘ neighbourhood ’ representation emanated from the latter group since all active members were home-owners . |
| 17 | The bride and the groom ate from the same dish . |
| 18 | The sample from Wales came from the same locality as the short-eared owl and tawny owl pellet samples , and the kestrel was hunting over much the same area as these species . |
| 19 | Colonel Fergusson , who could not quite bear to inform his daughter that the human family sprang from the same impulse which animated a beetle striking its head against the walls of its box , replied that in his view the Fergussons were a happy accident . |