Example sentences of "it [vb past] [vb pp] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 'd vanished from the page , ’ he said . |
| 2 | The Hong Kong economy performed poorly in the first half of 1990 , but not nearly as badly as in the second half of 1989 when it had suffered from the international reaction to the upheavals in China . |
| 3 | Its distinctiveness lay in the degree of autonomy it had achieved from the ‘ dominating ’ class , a class which in fact was ‘ hardly emerging from destitution and darkness and has no tradition of dominion or command ’ . |
| 4 | It seemed a part of nature 's force , as though it had erupted from the earth rather than being bolted to it . |
| 5 | May we not reasonably suppose that it had migrated from the central regions of this vast continent , which has yet much in store for future discovery ? |
| 6 | There was not enough food being grown on the farms and the government could not afford to pay for all of the grain it had requisitioned from the farmers . |
| 7 | With the handing over to the Council of Europe in 1960 of the social and cultural responsibilities it had inherited from the Treaty of Brussels , it seemed that to all intents and purposes WEU had become moribund . |
| 8 | In 1968 the Council moved from the premises in Park Crescent it had inherited from the NCTA to larger offices in Devonshire Street ( formerly occupied by the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations ) . |
| 9 | Clarke virtually admitted that he did not believe that these important issues should be discussed in public when he defended the government 's decision not to publish the advice on science funding which it had received from the Advisory Board for the Research Councils . |
| 10 | Once it had withdrawn from the BCOA , Pittston rejected the union contract and cut off health benefits to 1,500 widows , disabled miners , and pensioners . |
| 11 | Thus although the Bank of England has been obliged to restore the amount of cash it had withdrawn from the system , there has been an equal and opposite decrease in bills plus money at call held by the banks . |
| 12 | Maybe it had blown from the farm ; a grain bag , or a sack of feed for the hens . |
| 13 | But if he had first dropped the razor , why should it be lying on top of the blanket and so conveniently close to his hand as if it had slipped from the opening fingers ? |
| 14 | She pushed back her hair where it had slipped from the bandanna , then tried to shrug off the tension with a sigh . |
| 15 | It had come from the London Group of members , but the Operations Department have not yet come to a decision on this . |
| 16 | One of their products was erm you , when you see in the cars th th that they can er make them open top and they close the backs down , there 's a bracket on the side that er hinges up and well they used to special you know , it had come from the landaus of the horse drawn vehicle , the same sort of thing , well they used to specialize in that and they used to make some kind of locks but I 'm I have never talked to anybody that worked there so I , I do n't know , but that 's the only other one as I , as I 'm aware of er was the , was Wilks 's and er Bloxwich Lock . |
| 17 | So the flooding had not been from the lake — which hitherto I had assumed to be the case ; maybe it had come from the river whose bed , now dried , I had seen from my eminence on the hillside . |
| 18 | It had vanished from the earth . |
| 19 | He said it had differed from the Foreign Office advice because it had subsequently been been scrutinised in ‘ greater detail ’ . |
| 20 | He was conscious that Therese had been engaging in ‘ business ’ but had n't appreciated how it had looked from the front until it was too late to do anything about it . |
| 21 | It was less passive and more assertive , determined to hold on to the powers it had reclaimed from the executive in both foreign and domestic policy . |
| 22 | The scene of Essex 's rebellion , in which the Earl never appears , has been judged unfavourably , especially the running commentary provided by the blind ballad-singer.I wonder how widely praised this scene would be if it had issued from the hands of Brecht or one of his collaborators . |
| 23 | And a large part of what it was teaching to the Germans it had learned from the Romans . |