Example sentences of "[vb pp] an [adj] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed he now questioned if the United States itself had earned an adequate return from its investment in the special relationship . |
| 2 | She hoped she had n't caught an unmentionable disease from her visit to the news-theatre . |
| 3 | The police had earlier evicted an Arab family from one of the houses ; the other five houses had been vacant . |
| 4 | My father would have expected an abject apology from me , I assure you , before he condescended to write . ’ |
| 5 | Nutrasweet has already suffered an anti-dumping levy from the European Commission in Brussels as the sweetener war hots up . |
| 6 | Widows have suffered an additional loss from the freezing of the £1,000 widow 's payment , a matter on which the Government are curiously shy . |
| 7 | Rather like those adults with syphilis acquired from infected blood at transfusion or who have suffered an accidental inoculation from an infected syringe , the baby with congenital syphilis has no primary stage in the infection . |
| 8 | THE parents of an 11-year-old girl stabbed to death by a woman psychopath released early from hospital while under a Mental Health Act detention order have accepted an undisclosed payment from Doncaster Health Authority , writes Colin Wright . |
| 9 | ‘ 'Sergei Rozanov had made an unnecessary journey from Moscow to Gorky , simply in order to sleep with a young blind woman . ’ ’ |
| 10 | But the £1.7 million winger has made an express recovery from a hernia operation and could return at the City Ground . |
| 11 | Students had defied an earlier instruction from the King to end the boycott , the second in six months . |
| 12 | Some of them were in a terrible state because they 'd had an electric shock from the lightning . |
| 13 | We have had an enthusiastic response from both our young and old audiences . ’ |
| 14 | MR Andreas Papandreou , the former Greek prime minister , was yesterday handed an exploratory mandate from President Christos Sartzetakis to form a government within three days . |
| 15 | And Jeff says : ‘ Honey , I 've got an urgent message from my mother . |
| 16 | Needless to say , standards of rug-making went into rapid decline , and , exacerbated by the widespread introduction of poor quality dyes , the reputation of Anatolian rugs soon reached an all-time low from which it has only recently recovered . |
| 17 | I have received an official request from the Grand Council for the antique dealer to be freed , ’ the Archon continued . |
| 18 | British Coal , however , had received an alternative offer from a local Nottinghamshire businessman , Mr C. G. Whitaker , who was proposing a mixture of uses for the house — as a hotel and flats — while retaining the staterooms for public viewing and small-scale corporate meetings . |
| 19 | I have received an encouraging report from Boyds , the US mining engineering company , which has reviewed British Coal 's colliery operations and found much scope for further productivity improvements . |
| 20 | Moreover , de Craon had received an urgent message from his master . |
| 21 | Having received an honorary degree from St Andrews University , and through his friendship with Principal Robertson of Edinburgh University , had managed the business of a Divinity Degree for his friend Sam Cooper . |
| 22 | I have received an anonymous offering from Lancashire County Council , signed only ‘ Grass roots ’ . |
| 23 | In Wakeman v Farrar [ 1974 ] Crim LR 136 ( DC ) , the accused received a warning that he must return a lost cheque after he had received an over-the-counter payment from the Department of Health and Social Security . |
| 24 | Each team has a spoon and there is a bowl of water situated an equal distance from both the teams . |
| 25 | Whereas it would have been possible to ask Harriet Finlay Johnson , ‘ What are you teaching this lesson ? ’ and the answer could easily be something like , ‘ The Spanish Armada ’ , one could not expect to be given an equivalent answer from Peter Slade , Brian Way or the Speech and Drama teachers . |
| 26 | Given an enthusiastic ovation from the large audience , they responded with a light as thistledown performance of the finale of Haydn 's Op. 33/2 ‘ joke ’ quartet as encore . |
| 27 | Our Lady was given an important place from the very first phases of the movement . |
| 28 | I expect her to shout at me , having heard an alternative story from Teddy . |
| 29 | Tekhne has developed an automated gas from oil extraction system . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't think you 've ever told me that ! ’ said Donald , sounding peeved to have elicited an original statement from Henry while on licensed premises . |