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

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1 And that 's where he moved from here over the road and after then he used to have his own , see , he had a slaughterhouse built at the back , see , he done away with the slaughterhouse down the piste and he used to kill all his stuff there .
2 It exploded from just inside the Springbok 22 and Oosthuysen raced three-quarters the length of the pitch with Steve Hackney closing on him every second .
3 His hissed order came from just beyond the stern .
4 Mr Hayes said : ‘ We thought of the idea because he came from just up the road from the school and was later brought up and schooled at Great Ayton . ’
5 ‘ If you came from just down the road it would make no difference .
6 For this was something which came from right outside the audience 's experience or expectations .
7 Voices came from somewhere at the back — probably the kitchen : families seem to favour the kitchen as an assembly point in times of crisis .
8 It was just after we got married , , and he was a Lancashire lad , he came from somewhere of the suburbs of Manchester , I 've forgotten whereabouts he was
9 The family came from somewhere in the West Country .
10 They came from all over the country to show their displeasure .
11 Contributions came from all over the United Kingdom .
12 Lustful travellers came from all over the world to watch him dance , naked except for a silk cap atop his curls .
13 A lot of people came from all over the world here , and that makes it absolutely different from any other country .
14 And after thirty-five years with the Duke she had hundreds of pieces , which came from all over the world .
15 On the contrary , I found it fairly positive to announce that complaints were down to one ( now doubled ) ; that in recession 1,266 entries were judged ; that entries came from all over the world ; that the system had changed in direct response to comments made by members .
16 Speakers came from all over the world thanks to new and generous sponsorship from British Airways .
17 The Wellington crews who were trained here came from all over the world .
18 The gypsies gathered at the horse fair came from all over the place so he could be anywhere after that .
19 The census returns show that when people left London they usually moved only short distances but that migrants into London came from all over the place .
20 In Massachusetts the contest to select the Democrat candidate to contest the governorship was resolved when John Silber , the caustic president of Boston University and a political maverick , came from behind in the polls to defeat Francis X. Bellotti , a former state attorney general and a mainstay of the Democrat establishment .
21 His university duties consisted chiefly of marking examinations five or six times a year , avalanches of which arrived from all over the country ; he found it increasingly difficult to judge them , unable to make up his mind about marks while driven by conscience to become ever more scrupulous .
22 They arrived from all over the place , from the big houses locally to as far away as London .
23 Henri returned from inside with a bottle of Clairin and two mugs .
24 We heard from there of the lady who , seeking a replacement for an indispensable gardening book lent to and never returned by a ‘ friend ’ , found her own copy on the stall .
25 The music faded in discord , and squeals and shouts resounded from all over the room .
26 Even as her mother watched , a fourth man swooped from nowhere like a bird of prey and snatched the girl into his arms .
27 And I started from there as a forester .
28 He went from there to a café called Café des Beaux Arts , decorated inside with rather dismal and bad frescoes .
29 The Holy Land , in Jesus 's time , was literally swarming with different religions , different sects and cults , a great number of them imported from abroad as a result of the Roman occupation .
30 It ran from just behind the lobe of the ear to the very comer of his mouth .
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