Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb past] from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As long as I was forced to stay awake I shrank from any stimulus to sensation ; now I relax and welcome the fading sensations until they are extinct , and for a few minutes will notice impressions of which I am normally unaware , such as the twilight images on the edge of consciousness . |
| 2 | With almond-shaped eyes thickly outlined in black she looked from one face to another , Mada Joyce , appreciating the situation immediately , pulled Martha forward . |
| 3 | While royal pundits agreed that she appeared to have emerged victorious , getting all she wanted from this month 's separation from Prince Charles , there was one bleak scenario that darkened her horizon . |
| 4 | In 1922 he reverted from temporary major to lieutenant ; he was promoted captain in 1924 and major seven years later . |
| 5 | For some , the war was brought much nearer home when the French ( with their Castilian allies ) began once again to attack and plunder towns and villages on the south coast of England , the legitimate activities of English fishermen being among those which suffered from such raids . |
| 6 | Exactly … for those who signed from another club . |
| 7 | Chissano also outlined a number of human rights issues which would be reflected in the constitution , including the abolition of capital punishment , legal defence for the poor , land tenure for farmers , compensation for those who suffered from illegal acts by the state , and recognition of the right to strike , the last being a particularly topical issue in view of the wave of strikes affecting the country [ see below ] . |
| 8 | Bossert found that the peasants in Chile 's central valley with the highest levels of political consciousness were precisely those who benefited from agrarian reform . |
| 9 | Those who benefited from improved earnings , however , were not the rural poor , but the farmers who were able to take advantage of the opportunities the Green Revolution had to offer . |
| 10 | Four-fifths ( 81% ) of those who came from outside Edinburgh were visiting the City for leisure purposes . |
| 11 | An interesting example is the case of a man in his mid-thirties who suffered from bad neck tension and who , while having his neck treated , began to rub his hands round the sides of his chest . |
| 12 | In 1843 he moved from central Liverpool to Percy Villa in Northumberland Terrace , Everton , and during the hey-day of St George 's church he was one of the most active parishioners . |
| 13 | I need not refer to his history in any more detail up to June 1990 , but in that month he went to a residential school where his mother continued to visit him and in October 1990 he absconded from that school . |