Example sentences of "[conj] a [noun] [verb] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was Desmond , he was young and bright and flattered that a man had come from the Security Service to see him , and agreeably surprised that a Field Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had ended up in his stockinged feet in his front room . |
| 2 | He tried to imagine how she might be thinking : the sudden joy that the impossible had happened , that a man had returned from the dead . |
| 3 | Rarely has it ever been recorded that a fatality has occurred from snakebite during the festival ; the Cobras appear to know that they are being revered . |
| 4 | It fell to the diminutive and very tired Mr Havel to declare that a message had gone from the Forum to Presidents George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev , urging them to look closely at 1968 and the invasion when they meet next month . |
| 5 | He was awakened just before noon by the Master of Novices who announced that a message had come from John Benstede asking for Corbett to present himself at the castle immediately . |
| 6 | After some years of struggling anxiously with the knotty complexities of Catholic devotion before the reforms of the Second Vatican Council , I found The Cloud of Unknowing 's stark insistence on the one thing necessary deeply liberating and felt that a weight had fallen from my shoulders . |
| 7 | The only drawback , in a subject where condition is paramount , is that a number have suffered from over-zealous cleaning by the resident armourers . |
| 8 | However , sometimes the knowledge that a horse has acquired from its own species brings an unexpected result for the horse when used in relation to us . |
| 9 | The front-page coverage on the first day of the trial — FREED RAPIST ‘ CAME BACK TO KILL' ( Daily Mirror ) — revealed that a rapist had returned from jail after being released to murder his victim . |
| 10 | There was evidence that a tear had progressed from the corroded area across the face of the pressure dome , initially in fourteen separate steps , after which the critical crack length was exceeded and total disruption followed . |
| 11 | Almost the first thing she said was that a madman had escaped from Rampton and killed someone in the kitchen . |
| 12 | Since 1950 the number of those unemployed for more than a year has increased from 34,000 to more than a million at the start of this year . |
| 13 | He and a friend had fled from Vienna over the border into Czechoslovakia . |
| 14 | About erm eighteen months , two years ago a report was published , the Cockroft Report , this is the same Sir Wilfred Cockroft who 's chairing the Examination erm Council , which looked into the teaching of mathematics at all level in the country and it was an extremely good report and a lot has followed from it . |
| 15 | The mouth may be in need of care if a person has suffered from one or more of the following : |
| 16 | Both parents , his brother , and several other relatives drank very heavily , and an uncle had died from liver cirrhosis . |
| 17 | If an assailant had struck from behind , he would have toppled forward over the rail . |
| 18 | It ai n't gon na tell us they 're only gon na sa , someone gon na lose this because a bloke got sacked from his job for having a Betty Boop tattoo . |
| 19 | In just a few short years , the average hospital stay after a baby has dropped from eight to ten days in 1982 , to just three to four in 1989 . |
| 20 | After an insect has emerged from the egg the completed head shows few indications of a segmented origin apart from the fact that it carries paired appendages . |
| 21 | For she had actually been engaged in the very pleasant task of deciding which room in her new house at Far Flatley might best be converted into a nursery when a messenger had come from Frizingley with the awful news . |