Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] from [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On an outing to the obscure Gate Crag in Eskdale we picked a route called Bosigran — this had to be climbed because I 'd just returned from my first climbing trip to Cornwall . |
| 2 | It was the first thing I 'd ever kept from her . |
| 3 | When my parents did eventually reply , their letter was full of the most ordinary details of life in England and seemed far removed from my experiences in the Legion . |
| 4 | Er for example all of us in this room , if we went to one destination , we 'd probably all come away with a different combination of things that we 'd actually got from it . |
| 5 | He was less prominent in the action than William Craig and he felt sufficiently distanced from it to be able to absent himself for a few days in the first week of the strike when he went to Canada to attend a funeral . |
| 6 | There was something so grand about this place that she felt momentarily detached from her usual character . |
| 7 | He added that he now felt more detached from his former girlfriend , and that he was already beginning to regard their relationship as belonging to the past . |
| 8 | I felt totally alienated from my body , the inferior female body that labelled me second-rate , the body that I did not ask to have . |
| 9 | Britain now grew increasingly isolated from its European ‘ partners ’ . |
| 10 | Jimmy felt curiously detached from what was going on ; detached from whatever in hell had happened outside . |
| 11 | But she felt oddly detached from it , eager to be away from these happy people . |
| 12 | Perhaps my mother had received another anonymous letter which she had successfully concealed from me ? |
| 13 | In May Devi Lal 's son , Om Prakash Chauthala , had been forced to resign as the Janata Dal Chief Minister of Haryana ( a post he had effectively inherited from his father in December 1989 ) after months of controversy over a state-level by-election [ see p. 37452 ] . |
| 14 | Employment here peaked in 1975 and had somewhat recovered from its lowest level of 1981 by 1984 . |
| 15 | They had all learned from him ; she and Lisa still spoke , stylistically , as he had taught them to . |
| 16 | He felt suddenly light , as though the burden of the last few days had suddenly lifted from his shoulders . |
| 17 | Completed questionnaires from participating staff showed that they had welcomed the training , had greatly benefited from it , and had enjoyed the opportunity to discuss problems with staff from other Boroughs . |
| 18 | He had apparently recovered from his visit to Johanna , hiding his feelings behind the usual veil of secrecy . |
| 19 | The union had already moved from its fine premises in Buckingham Street , Strandon 22 September 1894 as an economy measure and eventually found a more permanent home , along with the Green 's Home branch , at the Maritime Hall , West India Dock Road , London E. where it remained until Head Office was moved to St.George 's Hall , Westminster Bridge Road , London S.E. in May 1921 . |
| 20 | One difference occurs in relation to the longer term in that shipbuilding , textiles , clothing and footwear , motor vehicles , timber and furniture , leather and fur , had already declined from their 1950 position by 1964 . |
| 21 | It seemed to him that the essential Eileen had already receded from her eyes . |
| 22 | He remembered his own great grief , and how he had finally emerged from it with a renewed sense of purpose ; for though his epic was intended to address the spiritual crisis of the age , it had also been conceived as a requiem for his lost wife and a celebration of her unwavering faith in his ability . |
| 23 | Because the blinkers had finally fallen from her eyes when he had asked her if it could be worse . |
| 24 | ‘ She hurt him dreadfully when he came home from Africa , crippled and his career in the army over , just when he needed her loving support the most , and now she has the gall to chase him again , when I hoped and prayed that he had finally recovered from her brutal treatment of him . ’ |
| 25 | Billy and Paul had just disembarked from their tour bus after a 17-hour journey from the previous night 's gig supporting Rush in Fort Worth , Texas , and were on their way to play in St Louis the next evening . |
| 26 | The Exec Director gave the DDA a number that he had just received from his bureau chief in London . |
| 27 | How could she spend Roman 's money so lavishly when she had just parted from her lover ? |
| 28 | Robbie and the dog had just returned from their stroll and she was about to lock up and go below for the night when a sound from the towpath caught her attention . |
| 29 | This certainty had somehow emerged from her indecision . |
| 30 | It would be no good stroking their Adult , say , if the transaction had largely come from their Child . |