Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as I became more acquainted with this set and stopped rushing from impossible passage to impossible passage , hoping against hope that at some point he would lose his balance and tumble like a second-rate trapeze artist off his swing , I was unwittingly dragged in to a more sinister , melancholic side to his playing . |
| 2 | Maybe he can only perform on nice pitches ( at the beginning and end of a season ? ? ) and also remember what sort of service hed get from chappy ! ! |
| 3 | Shevardnadze said that in order to create favourable conditions for negotiations on the reduction of short-range nuclear weapons , the Soviet Union proposed to withdraw from central Europe by the end of 1990 , 60 tactical missile launchers , over 250 nuclear artillery units , and 1,500 nuclear warheads . |
| 4 | At the second stage , consciousness became separated from practical action through the division of mental and manual labour . |
| 5 | These South Slavs became separated from related groups in Poland , Czechoslovakia , Russia and the Ukraine by a wedge of non-Slavs — the Germans of Austria , the Romanians of Wallachia and the Magyars of Hungary . |
| 6 | Yet his curiosity as to Jaq 's request seemed to proceed from reasonable concern rather than from the paranoia which often afflicted rulers . |
| 7 | After a few thrusting minutes Edward gave a strangled cry that seemed to come from deep in his throat and jerked out of her . |
| 8 | In 1987 a team of scientists found small amounts of diamonds in meteorites which , because of their composition , seemed to come from interstellar space . |
| 9 | A sea of huge , irregularly shaped dunes seemed to tumble from blue , hazy hills over to my left . |
| 10 | The number of visits clients received ranged from daily to once a month . |
| 11 | The lead , believed to come from industrialised countries in the southern hemisphere , is at very low concentrations and does not pose a threat to living organisms . |
| 12 | But there without doubt were the elusive twin spires of Saigon 's cathedral that he 'd seen from far off , stationary now and clearly visible , standing sentinel over the wide , tree-lined avenues . |
| 13 | The only real criticism Shamir received came from hardline " hawks " , such as Ariel Sharon , who pressed for a military attack on Iraq . |
| 14 | She 'd died from multiple stab wounds to the chest . |
| 15 | Er we showed him one or two examples of similar sorts of presentations that we 'd had from other railway and outside organizations , er explained what we 'd done in the past , said that we were looking to get something more up-market and more erm professional , which was why we were looking to er er seek er quotes from er g graphics designers , linked in with printers . |
| 16 | She had changed into the spare slacks and jersey he 'd brought from Golden Girl . |
| 17 | They 'd gone from legless to stone cold sober in nothing flat . |
| 18 | She quickly realised that the majority of them seemed to have Down 's syndrome while the disabilities of the others seemed to range from mild cerebral palsy to a spastic condition , these latter demanding the most attention and help from David and the woman who was with them . |
| 19 | Fears grew for the tens of thousands of pelicans which are in danger of dying of thirst in Australia , as the country began recovering from devastating floods . |
| 20 | Cuban workers and students began returning from Eastern Europe in the wake of political changes there . |
| 21 | Thick , greasy black smoke began to pour from loosened fittings around the flight deck . |
| 22 | Fisher determined to resign from early in 1961 . |
| 23 | During 1934 the emphasis in Left politics began to shift from domestic to international affairs . |
| 24 | As allied troops began to withdraw from northern Iraq [ see p. 38361 ] , the stationing of a multinational rapid reaction force on Turkish territory was still under negotiation by the Turkish government and those of the anti-Iraq coalition which fought the Gulf war . |
| 25 | The manner in which some of the practices of arts education began to change from didactic teaching towards more creative approaches during the first half of the twentieth century would support the view that it was the inspirational qualities of recommended change which secured their diffusion . |
| 26 | People began to move from rural areas into the new industrial towns . |
| 27 | Crudely put , authority and leadership began to move from traditional leaders , be they the old pro Jordanian élite or the post-1976 pro-PLO mayors ( most of whom had been eliminated by the authorities ) , into new but less visible hands . |
| 28 | Outside the mouth of the River Tay in Scotland , one out of three fish netted suffered from enlarged cells , a raspberry-shaped tumour which causes the skin to bulge . |
| 29 | Then I started buying from other dealers to satisfy demand . |
| 30 | During the course of the trial , which began on March 20 and involved 95 witnesses , she frequently wept and , on several occasions , collapsed suffering from high blood pressure and gastric ailments . |