Example sentences of "[subord] we [verb] [adv] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He addressed us now for the first time , in far more lucid Indonesian than we had ever heard from his elders . |
| 2 | ‘ Because we had just switched from the Lothian District League to the National League I thought it was a good time to concentrate on coaching , ’ she said . |
| 3 | Because we had all come from such different backgrounds , and were individuals bound together only by circumstance , I felt it was impossible to criticise their actions as I did n't fully understand their motivations . |
| 4 | Of their 42 MdBs — all of them as we noted earlier elected from lists — no less than 24 were women , because women had been given on average higher list rankings than men . |
| 5 | The policies are starting to work , as we 've already heard from Councillor . |
| 6 | We need greater co-operation in Europe in these matters , because immigration and asylum flows are a major political concern , as we have just noted from the exchanges about Le Pen and the way in which people are feeding upon his visit . |
| 7 | As Mr Scicluna pointed out , ‘ If you turn a committee into a faculty , it gives it a new lease of life , a breath of fresh air , and it thinks about its role a bit more purposefully , as we have already seen from the Tax Faculty . ’ |
| 8 | As we have already argued from Pahl 's ( 1984 ) study , even when women do paid work they still do the bulk of the domestic work , although it may be more equally distributed than it was when they were full-time housewives . |
| 9 | The solitary electric-bulb is burning , for we have recently emerged from the ‘ gas-mantle ’ age . |