Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so it was that on the first Monday after New Year , about midnight , we found ourselves on an icy road in County Cavan heading for the checkpoint , having just driven up from Dun Laoghaire , where we had disembarked from the Holyhead ferry . |
| 2 | She pushed back her hair where it had slipped from the bandanna , then tried to shrug off the tension with a sigh . |
| 3 | I 've got some quotes here that I 've taken from the book which shows not only how Dickens thought women ought to behave , but how the readers , since he was writing for a public market , the readers too thought the ideal woman ought to behave . |
| 4 | It was dark , I could n't make out their features , but I was terrified that I had jumped from the pot into the flames . |
| 5 | I hereby acknowledge that I have received from the sum of £ in payment for the fixtures , fittings and chattels now in or about the above premises listed in the Schedule below AND I confirm that I am absolutely entitled to the same free of any charge , hire-purchase agreement or other incumbrance affecting the same or any of them . |
| 6 | I could not possibly do justice in this speech to all that has been written on the subject , but I hope that I have profited from the many articles which I have read since the hearing . |
| 7 | To get a wider picture than I had obtained from the local bookshops I made special journeys to various places , and acquired every library book I came across , only restricting myself by not acquiring more than one book from each library . |
| 8 | We went on listening as she informed us that she had progressed from the easy-peasies such as Keats and Dickens to the Russian heavy brigade . |
| 9 | When Petion returned , Ace had brought out from the TARDIS the four Vickers guns that she had liberated from the palace armoury , and was checking their actions for signs of wear or damage . |
| 10 | But Mother Francis had fought like a tiger for that small bundle that she had rescued from the cottage , on the day she was born . |
| 11 | O'Keeffe 's immediate reaction to the criticism generated by the 1923 show is not known , but it is clear from a letter she wrote to Mitchell Kennerley of the Anderson Gallery in the autumn of 1922 , soon after Rosenfeld 's second article appeared , that she had objected from the beginning to Hartley 's and Rosenfeld 's assessments of her and her art : ‘ You see Rosenfeld 's articles have embarrassed me — [ and ] I wanted to lose the one for the Hartley book when I had the only copy of it to read — so it could n't be in the book . ’ |
| 12 | Sally Ann Cattell died in a stolen car which crashed during a police chase last March , but the SSD denied reports that she had absconded from the children 's home , St John 's in Erdington , to which she had moved three days before the incident . |
| 13 | If they learn how to handle the patient with the same care that you have learned from the physiotherapists , occupational therapists and nurses , the patient will be perfectly safe . |
| 14 | The appendix does not have any function in man ( i.e. it is a vestigial organ ) and therefore its removal would make no difference to Julie 's normal activities once she had recovered from the operation itself . |
| 15 | Because it 's a word that we 've borrowed from the french word . |
| 16 | There w–s no sense that we had passed from the holy world of church to secular life : there was a wholeness and a holiness about the whole experience which is difficult to describe . |
| 17 | I am genuinely sorry , for I am heartily thankful that we have escaped from the small-mindedness of the medieval church and I despise modern astrologers , but I am afraid that the rhetoric about backwaters in the previous paragraph is just empty rhetoric . |
| 18 | Does he reject the comments that we have heard from the Opposition which have much more to do with their courting votes than with human rights ? |
| 19 | Even if the election is postponed until July , the Government will not be able to maintain the line that we have heard from the Dispatch Box . |
| 20 | Stefano Tani has already pointed out that Calvino 's idea of observation , within his wider poetic of ‘ seeing ’ , is a different matter from the ‘ impassive and indifferent , basically blind , gaze that we have inherited from the nouveau roman ’ . |
| 21 | Not all of them I accept and they 've been very helpful and when it comes to erm any other issue , I think basically , unfortunately sir , I think that we have strayed from the debate , we 've strayed onto ethnic issues er er and I think it 's a shame Mr , there was no need to introduce that and of course it was bound to bring a backlash , it was bound to introduce it it it it 's coloured it it 's made opaque the issues because you make it complicated , in actual fact er er I think that er being a governor of a school , I think that 's absolutely marvellous that some youngsters the future , I think the future will decide , I think there are kids out there will turn round one day and say how could you have done that ? |
| 22 | The pressure of population caused much less concern in the Welsh Border counties where there was still sufficient land available to allow poor immigrants to erect cottages on the wastes and to claim common rights to go with the few acres that they had cleared from the woods or the moors . |
| 23 | But managers told me that they had learned from the experience . |
| 24 | Both Nicolae and Elena constantly emphasized in their speeches that they had sprung from the common people and therefore shared their hopes and sufferings . |
| 25 | He was what we have learned to call a WASP , and his lifetime coincided with the process , not yet quite completed , by which that caste — white Anglo-Saxon protestants of the northeast — was supplanted from the position of privilege that they had enjoyed from the first days of the Republic . |
| 26 | That the owners are not described may imply that they have withdrawn from the close relations with tenants , servants , and labourers that is called for from lords of the manor ; they have grown remote in more or less the way described by Bloomfield in his discussion of the harvest feast . |
| 27 | The Iraqis , once they had withdrawn from the territory occupied in the early months , and to some extent even before this took place , constructed solid defensive positions , notably in the centre near Mandali and Khanaqin , and in the south close to Basrah , from which to fight off the anticipated Iranian offensives . |
| 28 | And , although he had benefited from the publicity surrounding the death and from the cheapness of the star 's replacement , he would also have benefited from Michael Banks 's drawing power , had he survived . |
| 29 | May we not reasonably suppose that it had migrated from the central regions of this vast continent , which has yet much in store for future discovery ? |
| 30 | So much so , that it has fallen from the 50 per cent standard of the 1930s , to less than 15 per cent in the late 1970s — which is no better , and in some areas far worse , than the standard already achieved before the First World War when the Probation Act of 1907 had hardly consolidated itself . |