Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] from " in BNC.

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1 The problems mostly arose from lack of capital and only in a few cases had any action been taken — two had recently purchased houses in nearby villages for their sons and some had been able to purchase or rent some more land .
2 Working on the template agreed with his fellow coaches , McGeechan and Douglas Morgan , Dixon has brought a dynamism to the driving mauls , mostly triggered from clean lineout ball , which had seemed largely beyond the Scottish Exiles — four of whom are in the pack — when they attempted to deploy that tactic during the inter-district championship .
3 A peculiar head slowly rose from the hole and peered into the room with patient animal scrutiny .
4 More recently , in a series entitled , ‘ Scenes from the intimate life of CMA ’ she uses six small-scale canvasses , each focussing on a film still , randomly appropriated from a narrative sequence .
5 The controversy apparently arose from a communiqué issued by the Philippines-US Mutual Defence Board after its meeting in Manila on Nov. 5-6 , chaired jointly by the Philippine Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Lisandro Abadia and Adml.
6 After he finished , it is said , a wind suddenly arose from the floor of the desert and blew sand across the spectators .
7 On this occasion I personally moved from The Bun Shop to a pub I believe was called The Volunteer run by a well-known and aged bare-knuckle fighter from London 's East End called Joe Mullins .
8 ‘ I only moved from Middlesbrough because I became a little stale .
9 Capt. Rogelio Seradoy , the helicopter pilot of the August 1987 coup attempt leader Col. Gregorio " Gringo " Honasan , apparently fled from a Manila airbase after obtaining a two-day leave pass .
10 A woman suddenly shouted from the back of the crowd .
11 She only changed from an ultra-leftist to an ultra-rightist .
12 Very high rates of tariff covering about 7 per cent of goods in the United States and United Kingdom almost disappeared , and the proportion of trade ( excluding agriculture and fuels ) which attracted tariffs of 15 per cent or less rose from 54 per cent to 85 per cent in the USA , from 37 per cent to 85 per cent in the United Kingdom and from 71 per cent to 97 per cent for the EEC .
13 The violence apparently stemmed from a campaign , stepped up in March , for the restoration of Ingushi autonomy within the borders of the former Ingush Autonomous Region .
14 The postponement , decided on Sept. 16 by the presidents of Byelarus , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Russia and Ukraine , apparently stemmed from disagreements between Russia and Ukraine over control of the nuclear weapons stationed in Ukraine .
15 Among them was a young officer who was riding a mule ( which stubbornly stopped from time to time ) and roaring with laughter .
16 So letters were unearthly and invaluable , even if they only came from Barclays Bank .
17 The 1.5 per cent pay rise for the public sector was announced by Mr Lamont in his autumn statement , but the details only came from the pay review bodies yesterday .
18 Then finally , Paul Reichmann saw the opportunity he had been waiting for in London , a city he fondly recalled from the days when he studied there as a young man .
19 ‘ I can hardly believe so much came from just two schools — I hate to think what is lying in basements around the country , ’ Alistair said .
20 Five times the size of Rutland , Buckinghamshire shows every symptom of several standards of assessment : numerous reductions in the Chiltern hundreds in 1524 reduced aggregate wealth from £97 to £67 per thousand acres , while in Buckingham hundreds it only dropped from £84 to £59 , but throughout the northern half of the shire many of the 1522 assessments were retained substantially unaltered , conceivably because the people concerned deemed it prudent to keep their mouths shut and pay up ; a significant number were actually uprated , perhaps penalised for having the gall to seek abatements , so attracting a further , more searching investigation of their means .
21 But the greatest praise perhaps came from William Wordsworth , who wrote the epitaph for Green 's gravestone .
22 The gypsies gathered at the horse fair came from all over the place so he could be anywhere after that .
23 I think my style basically came from copying other people 's stuff , but it was never that important to me to get it perfect .
24 After all , her young people all came from good families .
25 Let loose on the family estancia during the holidays , he and Pedro had played cops and robbers on horses , and later polo with his cousins , who all came from large houses nearby .
26 Some of his difference obviously came from the milieu from which he came and the milieux — there were a half dozen of them — in which he moved .
27 Much of this form of headhunting impetus obviously came from the USA after the opening of branches in London by the Big four .
28 I had never seen them before and they obviously came from some very rural place in the Apennines .
29 This opposition naturally came from the left of Irish politics , with support from left Labour figures such as Noel Browne and David Neligan , trade unionists such as Michael Mullen of the ITGWU and members of the Workers ' Party .
30 And she only learnt from somebody else that her father had been executed .
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