Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] from [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hemel recovered from their woeful midweek performance against Reykjavik in the European Korac Cup to win 89-75 at Stevenage Falcons , for whom Renaldo Lawrence was top scorer with 36 points . |
| 2 | When Wilfrid returned from his final visit to Rome Aethelred had abdicated but he summoned his nephew and appointed successor , Coenred , to meet Wilfrid and is said to have urged him to uphold Wilfrid 's cause ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 57 ) . |
| 3 | Lucy stared from his retreating back to the indentations on the bedspread and pillow . |
| 4 | Two days later Pamela woke from her after-lunch snooze with a sudden start . |
| 5 | Paris : Peugeot recovered from its recent weakness , gaining eight francs to 902 on hopes of ending the strike at two plants . |
| 6 | Benedict rose from his own chair so hastily that it almost tipped over . |
| 7 | Mildred changed from her ordinary school uniform to the best robes which the girls always wore for special occasions . |
| 8 | Anthony returned from his enforced rest on 14th December . |
| 9 | After a few weeks of agitation in the press , Mr Pozderac resigned from his high government office , although still declaring his innocence . |
| 10 | • Sherman emerged from his sonic Orbitarium but looked flustered when I mentioned the album , denying any participatory interest in the Hughes-Coughlan partnership . |
| 11 | Hammond retired from his military position in the course of 1651–2 , but continued to be much preoccupied with the pay arrears due to himself and the other personnel of the artillery train from his years of service . |
| 12 | Industrial employment in North Shields declined from its 1966 peak of 16 500 jobs to 7500 by 1984 . |
| 13 | Elsewhere ( as along the western seaboard of North America ) plates were converging and being subducted , but over a great part of the earth 's surface , and my part of it in particular , the plates were gently moving apart as the Atlantic formed from its median ridge . |
| 14 | While all this went on , the parents sat around on the school 's battered garden furniture , the mothers watching each other warily , the fathers armoured in a remote mildness that Robert recognized from his own parent . |
| 15 | During his address , Walesa departed from his prepared text and asked Jews to forgive centuries of Polish anti-Semitism , especially the collaboration of some Poles in the annihilation by the Nazis of almost the whole of Poland 's 3,000,000-strong Jewish population during the Second World War . |
| 16 | Beth rose from her front row seat , turned , and allowed the audience to get a good look at her before making her way out . |
| 17 | Brian came from her own home town , though she had not known him there : this had some significance , both acknowledged , though Liz could not have said what it was . |
| 18 | The strongest support of all for the Bill came from my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton , North ( Mr. Marlow ) , who had a range of interesting ways in which to stoke up the legislation to higher and higher levels of severity . |
| 19 | Uncle Alfred woke from his day-long nap to find Anabelle sitting by the canal . |
| 20 | An illustrated lecture presented by Mark Jones developed from his best-selling book about York 's ‘ narrow places to walk along , leading from somewhere to somewhere else ’ . |
| 21 | Four months after the Eliots returned from their disagreeable holiday in North Africa , he contracted a virus and was forced to stay in bed for two weeks ; once more the rhythm of illness and flight from illness established itself . |
| 22 | MIDDLESEX returned from their pre-season tour to Portugal last night with grave concerns about their fast bowlers . |
| 23 | If he still appears a hero to some , that may be something the world can live with : for all his defiance , he will have thrown away everything Iraq gained from its eight-year war with Iran , and swallowed many mouthfuls of words about Kuwait remaining Iraq 's 19th province for ever and a day . |
| 24 | Bardsley and Francis profited from their collective inadequacy , and at 2-2 it was anybody 's game . |
| 25 | Ianthe realised from his triumphant expression that he had caught her out in a mistake and waited with resignation to hear what it was . |
| 26 | Erlich recognised from his balding head Harry 's Station Chief . |
| 27 | In this respect , RENFE benefited from its special status as a symbolic embodiment of the processes of democratization in the years following the death of Franco . |
| 28 | Carefully , no sudden movements , Erlich took from his inside pocket his notebook , and removed the top from his ballpoint . |
| 29 | Bill Larnach emerged from his National Service with a love of German wine , a liking for German cities and a host of German friends . |
| 30 | Cnut inherited from his royal Scandinavian and English predecessors relations of an often threatening as well as potentially profitable sort with a very wide range of territories . |