Example sentences of "[vb past] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SARHWU claimed that 500-800 of its members were attacked by 1,000 strike-breaking vigilantes as they disembarked from trains at Germiston . |
| 2 | Her head beat from side to side and she said , ‘ Yes , yes , yes , yes , ’ again , then Lachlan — wiry , athletic-looking , skinny shanks ramming back and forth like some skinny bull — reached under her , pulled her up , his legs spreading , kneeling ; she hung onto him , arms round his neck , then after a few vertical stabs he threw her down , back onto the bed ; she grunted , arms still tight round his back , then she brought her legs up , right up over his thin , plunging , globe-buttocked behind , until her ankles were in the small of his back , rocking to and fro , feet crossed one over the other , locked there ; with one splayed hand she held onto his back , pressing him to her , and with the other hand she felt down the length of his body , over ribs and waist and hips , and with another grunt reached round and under , taking his balls in her hand , pressing them and kneading them and squeezing them . |
| 3 | So Jezrael left her enemy shivering with the nearness of death — for she had felt the fire of fury that radiated from Jezrael — and walked back into Hell . |
| 4 | One theory is that the town was once part of a vast cosmic Zodiac which radiated from Stonehenge . |
| 5 | The first room was a waiting-room , a ramshackle place where grey stuffing oozed from knife slashes across the plastic seats . |
| 6 | The method used to produce C-bands at meiosis is that of Chandley and Fletcher ( 6 ) modified from Sumner ( 7 ) . |
| 7 | As to the latter he dismissed from consideration certain authorities relating to the admissibility in evidence of information obtained under powers similar to those which he had to consider , on the ground that the matters before him concerned , not the admissibility of replies to questions , but the right of the authorities to demand answers . |
| 8 | Disapproval seeped from Frau Nordern . |
| 9 | Dauntless dismounted from Contralto and led the horse forward . |
| 10 | They bounced from wall to wall , crossing and recrossing , and the violet light flickered in time with the sound . |
| 11 | They perished from hunger |
| 12 | This is another problem which surfaced from engineering attempts , but also makes itself evident in authorial blunders — the civil defence poster caption ‘ When a hand-grenade lands near by , do n't lose your head . |
| 13 | However , the idea that archive work might be used in the training of embryo diplomats still surfaced from time to time in France . |
| 14 | Turnover rose from £424.2 million to £521.8 million , while earnings per share fell only 2 per cent , from 40p to 39.2p , because of the smaller number of shares in issue . |
| 15 | However , concern has been caused by the fact that between 1976 and 1989 the ratio of debt to personal disposable income rose from 50% to over 100% ( BEQB May 1989 ) , and since 1980 the growth in credit has substantially exceeded the growth in income . |
| 16 | When asset sales are excluded , earnings per share rose from 3.4p to 5p , a 47pc increase . |
| 17 | The £33 million acquisition of ‘ black box ’ crash recorder maker Penny & Giles last year added £1.6 million to trading profits which rose from £36.9 million to £40.9 million . |
| 18 | But the strength of the operations are reflected in the quarterly breakdown of income from E&P which rose from £414 million at the start of 1992 to £515 million in the final quarter . |
| 19 | Between 1967 and 1974 net US receipts of profits and interest rose from $5.3 billion to $15.5 billion . |
| 20 | While there appears to be no immediate threat to Curtis 's position , there is friction between himself and Robins over the size of his income , which rose from £138,000 in the previous year . |
| 21 | The man heading the operation , Assistant Chief Constable , Alan Rose from Dorset Police , says security for the meeting ca n't get much tighter . |
| 22 | In Canada , where premium income rose from $96.1m to $139.8m following the acquisition of the general insurance business of the Prudential Corporation , the deficit for the quarter was up from $2.9m to $11.8m — a relatively satisfactory performance in difficult market conditions . |
| 23 | Total spending on the poor certainly rose from $13.4 billion in 1964 to $23.9 billion in 1969 . |
| 24 | Turnover climbed from £187.2 million to £204.5 million , while earnings per share rose from 5.8p to 6.5p . |
| 25 | When the syntactic component was switched off , the error rate rose from 4% to 30% . |
| 26 | Of unmarried women who became pregnant , the proportion who married the father before the baby was born fell from 40% in 1970 to 11% in 1988 , whereas the proportion of pregnancies terminated by abortion rose from 24% to 37% . |
| 27 | Their net confidence rose from 24% to 46% . |
| 28 | So successful was the business that Holder 's shares rose from 2s. 10d. in 1956 to £18 10s. in 1960 . |
| 29 | In the US , profits rose from £3 million to £24 million , despite further heavy losses on hurricane insurance . |
| 30 | For Terminal courses , the fee for a non-branch member ( covering course and registration ) went up from 7s. 0d. to 10s. 0d. ; for a branch member ( whose subscription was added to the fee ) it rose from 10s. 0d. to 12s. 0d . |