Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb past] [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the court did not accept the legal conclusion which the defence sought to draw from that fact , since Megaw L.J . |
| 2 | The expression on her face was strange — part sympathy , part derision — and the weakness had gone from her voice . |
| 3 | The Tokyo meeting , on June 4-5 , was attended by representatives of all four Cambodian factions , namely Hun Sen , Premier of the State of Cambodia ( SOC ) , and , from the three elements of the National Government of Cambodia ( NGC , formerly known as the CGDK — see p. 37249 ) , Prince Norodom Sihanouk , NGC President ( the Prince had resigned from the presidency for three weeks during May ) , Son Sann , NGC Prime Minister and leader of the Khmer People 's National Liberation front ( KPNLF ) , and Khieu Samphan , NGC Vice-President and Khmer Rouge representative . |
| 4 | He looked up in bewilderment and noticed the self-assurance had gone from her eyes . |
| 5 | The money had to come from somewhere , and while old newspapers might spawn new newspapers there was not , of course , any ‘ old ’ ITV . |
| 6 | Later it was revealed that the money had come from a different source . |
| 7 | No one knew where the money had come from . |
| 8 | Vlok said that the money had come from a fund established to combat international sanctions . |
| 9 | The case had arisen from the kidnapping of four youths from a Methodist manse in Soweto in 1988 . |
| 10 | Opposition to the ban had come from the traditional whaling countries of Norway , Iceland and Japan , joined by St Vincent and St Lucia . |
| 11 | In the Romalpa case , not only was the seller entitled , as owner , to the unmixed goods which the buyer had not sold , but the seller was also entitled to the proceeds of the sale which the buyer had received from sub-sales of unmixed goods . |
| 12 | Faced with the loss of their previous high-performance computer in 1987 , the university got backing from the Science and Engineering Research Council and the Department of Trade and Industry to purchase a large Computing Surface to serve both as a research vehicle and a flagship site for Meiko . |
| 13 | For example , the amount of coal shipped from Derbyshire via the route had fallen from 125,000 tons in 1850 to 73,000 in 1855 , and by 1894 to 4,700 tons . |
| 14 | Car hire girl Lorna Wilson , 30 , who saw the crash just yards from her office , said : ‘ The driver seemed to appear from nowhere just as the whole place went up in flames . |
| 15 | But the Tibetan had no strength for revenge : the blood had drained from his head and he slumped to the ground , clutching his leg . |
| 16 | He heard the cry and looked back , seeing how the blood had drained from Ling 's face , then let the body fall from him . |
| 17 | And they knew then where the blood had come from . |
| 18 | The inner side of the track was almost sheer at this point , brown broken rock glistening with water , and I could see at a glance where the rock had come from , a gaping hole oozing mud as though a giant molar had been extracted . |
| 19 | Its legs — if it had legs — were covered in what looked like a large brown sheet , and the light seemed to come from a kind of lamp attached to the back of what could , or could not , be its head . |
| 20 | The light seemed to fade from the brightly shimmering early evening as she heard him , and her heart felt as if an iron band was tightening mercilessly about it . |
| 21 | Now the light had faded from those eyes , and her complexion was sallow . |
| 22 | All the snow had gone from the tops and the sun was really warm . |
| 23 | The riot had started from nothing ; nobody had expected any trouble . |
| 24 | On the infrastructural side , most of the investment had come from Urban Programme and derelict-land grant sources . |
| 25 | Interior Ministry troops , who had come under fire from rooftop snipers , later succeeded in throwing a cordon around the CP headquarters to protect it from further attack , but Moscow radio reports said that by the evening of Feb. 13 the violence had spread from the city centre to numerous locations in the suburbs , and that automatic gunfire could be heard . |
| 26 | The suggestion about the car had come from the rifleman — he 'd asked if I had a car , and I 'd said yes , because I did n't want them to know that I 'd come by boat . |
| 27 | Behind the closed door the programme had changed from athletics to wrestling and once more the baby had begun to cry . |
| 28 | The telegram had come from FIFA 's headquarters in Buenos Aires and informed the Scotland manger that one of his players , William Johnson , had traces of the proscribed drug Fencamsamin in his urine . |
| 29 | The deal appeared to result from evidence contained in hundreds of tapes of telephone conversations between the CIA 's headquarters and its agents in central America who were involved in the illegal operation to supply arms to the Nicaraguan contra rebels through profits made from the clandestine sale of arms to Iran . |
| 30 | Another was the ā gri , sitting beside a petal-shaped oil lamp which he replenished as soon as the flame began to dwindle from a bowl on the hearth . |