Example sentences of "[vb past] from [adj] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 By 1964 there were 4.4 million TV sets ; a second TV channel began transmitting programming in April ; the amount of programming transmitted by the two channels rose from 4000 hours annually to 7400 hours ( 1964–7 ) ; the number of TV sets rose by a million a year between 1964 and 1967 .
2 Then the infant school the first class of the infants we had in a hut on Netteswell Road and then we went , they came from that hut there to the servant 's quarters of Mark Hall .
3 Last year Mr Bush came from 17 points behind at the polls when a skilful advertising campaign persuaded voters that Michael Dukakis , the Liberal governor of Massachusetts , was soft on crime .
4 Last year 2,500 people died from smoking-related diseases alone in Northern Ireland — six lives lost every single day .
5 However the use of statistical techniques in linguistics fell from general use apart from a few ‘ marginal ’ applications .
6 South Korean President Roh Tae Woo dismissed two members of his Cabinet and the governor of North Chungchong province on Sept. 19 , after holding them responsible for the massive damage which resulted from severe flooding earlier in the month in Seoul and the central region of the country .
7 Many anthropologists believe that Australian Aboriginal tribes may have had contact with India via the once existing land mass that stretched from southern India almost to Australia .
8 People travelled from remote lands just to be a part of it , for no one was ever turned from the door .
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