Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] from the dead " in BNC.
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1 | Some of the women who were followers of Jesus had returned from the tomb where Jesus had been buried , saying that it was empty , that they had been told in a vision that Jesus had risen from the dead . |
2 | The whole raison d'etre of that early Christian community was that it believed certain things of Christ — at the very least , that it was he whom God had raised from the dead . |
3 | While they drank to celebrate the arrangement , Mrs Corney told Mr Bumble about old Sally 's death , and the unknown gold object which she had stolen from the dead body of the young woman . |
4 | Malekith and his followers already had the Shrine of Asuryan in their possession , and Malekith possessed the crown that he had taken from the dead Phoenix King . |
5 | He tried to imagine how she might be thinking : the sudden joy that the impossible had happened , that a man had returned from the dead . |
6 | At the hotel , Salah greeted us as if we had returned from the dead , pumping our hands and laughing , " Crazy English , crazy English . " |