Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight riders galloped from cover and came thudding across the cleared land towards the settlement . |
| 2 | Mimi and her red-haired friend called ‘ Tiger ’ who looked like Rita Hayworth , had developed the habit of referring to him as ‘ Monsieur le Professeur ’ , for they knew that Jeffrey 's thousand-franc notes came from Minton . |
| 3 | About 75 acres came from Bolney Estates Limited and about 30 acres from Mr K.K. McKenzie of Gillotts , this latter being all that part of the course west of a straight line drawn from a point close by the public footpath near the 5th green , through the wood and across the 8th , 9th and 10th fairways to the Belle Hatch road at right angles . |
| 4 | Citrine , now more aware of the new world they lived in , was more willing to contemplate price increases to finance investment , but conflicting signals came from Whitehall about both the merit and the practicability of such a change . |
| 5 | Coal for the pumping engines on the Cornish mines came from Swansea , and the copper ore went back to be smelted in South Wales . |
| 6 | These marked lines ran from hilltop to hilltop like ‘ a fairy chain ’ . |
| 7 | No matter that she had n't understood the broken phrases gasped from Rune 's lips as he had devoured her with his kisses ; she knew instinctively that they had been an expression of his desire for her in that sweet moment of culmination . |
| 8 | For two days a representative cross-section of working-class men , ex-officers , and public schoolboys queued from morning to night at the Black House to join an organization which they saw as being dedicated to preserving freedom of speech . |
| 9 | Spear also found in a study of teachers ' attitudes to girls and technology that the most sex-differentiated replies came from science teachers ( Spear in this volume ) . |
| 10 | Red-capped cardinals flitted from branch to light branch . |
| 11 | Cargill 's after-tax profits rose from $19.4 million in fiscal year 1971–2 to $150 million in fiscal year 1972–3 . |
| 12 | At South Bank Poly the commercial pressures came from outsiders . |
| 13 | Some details came from inscriptions of lunar and solar phases on clay tablets dating from between 700 and 50 BC . |
| 14 | Further interruptions came from Eamonn Melaugh and Robert Campbell , but they desisted when the mayor offered to receive a deputation following the close of business . |
| 15 | They include trained creatures hand-reared from birth and monsters which have been magically bound by spells of obedience . |
| 16 | ‘ The best scores from weekly magazines came from City Limits and New Stateman & Society ; the Literary Review scored well ; the TLS and London Review of Books were disappointing , and the worst scores of all came in from the Spectator and Time Out . |
| 17 | Soon some doctors came from Washington and spoke to the workers . |
| 18 | NURI ‘ ABD AL-KARIM LAYEDH MUHAMMAD , a 62-year-old driver , and his two sons SABAH and ‘ ABD AL-KARIM : Iraqi nationals resident in Kuwait , they were ‘ disappeared ’ in March 1991 shortly after Iraqi forces withdrew from Kuwait . |
| 19 | Subsequent comments during October , however , by Bush and US Secretary of State James Baker , and also by the United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd emphasized the growing likelihood of a Western military offensive unless Iraqi forces withdrew from Kuwait . |
| 20 | Commercial enquiries rose from 40% to 45 % of the total , illustrating the importance of map information to the civil and structural engineer , the chartered surveyor and the building contractor in particular . |
| 21 | In 1850 , 64.74 per cent of total receipts on French railways came from passengers and only 35.26 per cent from goods . |
| 22 | Both English samples came from Somerset in the vicinity of Westbury-sub-Mendip , one from a patch of woodland and one from the bottom of a cliff on which the kestrel was roosting . |
| 23 | They were the first state concerns to be given this go-ahead since July 1989 , although private companies had from January 1991 been allowed to make direct payments of foreign commercial debt . |
| 24 | Similar opinions came from Alliance and the Ulster Unionists , with DUP deputy leader Peter Robinson saying the party would look at the talks proposals , specifically to see whether they dealt with removing Articles 2 and 3 of the Irish constitution . |
| 25 | It is likely that some of the chief Druids fled from Gaul at the time of Caesar 's invasion and took refuge in Britain where they initiated and developed a strong anti-Roman feeling among the most susceptible British chieftains . |
| 26 | One attractive theory suggests that such artists came from Pergamon . |
| 27 | ‘ The inspiration behind those tremendous performances came from Billy Bingham . ’ |
| 28 | GERALD RATNER 'S pay cut from £574,000 to £383,000 a year cut no ice with angry shareholders yesterday after the jewellery tycoon admitted that losses at the chain 's near 2,000 shops ballooned from £17,700,000 to £30,600,000 in the six months to August . |
| 29 | Increased market share as new annual premiums rose from $39m to $45.8m and single premiums from $126m to $241.6m . |
| 30 | For example in June , the percentage of pupils absent in individual schools ranged from 0% to 44% of the school roll . |