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

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1 AT LEAST two people were killed and 80 injured when a car bomb exploded in the heart of the City of London last night in a suspected IRA attack timed to detract from the Tory General Election victory celebrations .
2 Even in Franco 's Spain during the 1960s and early 1970s bargaining power also became divested from the ( state-controlled ) unions to the level of the workplace ( Fina and Hawkesworth , 1984 ) .
3 By December the same year ( Lois Rosow notes ) ‘ the inspecteurs [ Francoeur and Rebel ] , apparently weary of the Querelle des Bouffons , asked to retire from the Opéra . ’
4 Next month he planned to retire from the army , but says he could n't resist this call to duty .
5 Or is it , is it that they 've become a sort of exclusive club , arising al almost always through the ranks of the of the law , and gradually , gradually got withdrawn from the way that ordinary people think and feel .
6 That the Rev. C. G. Hamilton having at the suggestion of the Governors agreed to retire from the Headmastership on a pension , the Governors beg respectfully to suggest £150 per annum as such pension , and ask the advice of the Charity Commissioners on the subject . "
7 The first decree was issued in 1972 by the military regime in alliance with the local bourgeoisie , who clearly expected to benefit from the initiative .
8 He had been beaten , threatened with knee-capping , burned on the neck with a cigarette and invited to jump from the open door of the speeding vehicle during the journey to the quarry at Furnace on Loch Fyne .
9 If I were to die , she thought , there is nobody to find me , perhaps for days and weeks , for we do not have visitors , and my mother would die too , of fright or starvation or a broken limb , after her voice gave out in screaming , and she tried to struggle from the bed .
10 Fashanu , included in the squad for today 's boxing day clash with Wimbledon 's Selhurst Park landlords , Crystal Palace , last night promised to lead from the front in the club 's fight against relegation .
11 In a scaly hollow a crowd of naked Perks fled squealing from the echo of their bounding feet .
12 They became , in a sense , a captive labour force ; those who tried to escape from the land to neighbouring towns could be forcibly returned or punished .
13 ‘ They sent him to Australia for life , because he tried to escape from the prison-ship . ’
14 Hence everything he built sprang from the fifteenth century and before .
15 Peter desperately tried to scramble from the wreckage , fearing the car would burst into flames .
16 Emma tried to run from the falling post , which weighed 120lb , but tripped and fell .
17 The car , a Vauxhall Cavalier reported stolen from the Wakefield area , had crashed into the narrow bridge at Eller Beck , on the A169 Whitby-Pickering road near RAF Fylingdales .
18 In an effort to salvage the protocol , other delegates have put together a counterproposal requiring any country that decided to mine under the terms the US proposed to withdraw from the entire environmental protocol and not just the mining clause .
19 Ben Bellaser was best man , of course , ‘ … and had first kiss of the fair bride I helped to save from the grave ’ .
20 He was hurt as he tried to transfer from the Tayjack rig to the tug Torbay Endeavour off the coast of Sunderland .
21 Francis might have more to tell of these towns — of their poor and their beggars — whom he tried to raise from the dull misery of want to accept and bless their lot by enjoying poverty and simplicity as great as theirs .
22 In fact it was rather modernism , as its name implies ( from latin modo , just now , or hodie , today ) , that tried to awake from the nightmare of history , self-consciously setting itself against the past , and rejecting forms of historical understanding .
23 The day after we tried to telephone from the post office but could not get through to Alassio .
24 In the immediate post-war period down to the mid-1950s there were endless external difficulties as the economy tried to recover from the strains of the war ; balance-of-payments crises of a severe kind in 1949 , 1951 , and 1955 , often accompanied by pressure on sterling , were endemic .
25 She had tears in her eyes as she tried to recover from the laughter .
26 He naturally tried to recover from the steep dive before striking the ground .
27 He was restrained as he tried to rush from the dock before the judge left the court .
28 That night , Seb had so much to drink that when he tried to rise from the ground beside the camp-fire to return home his legs felt like rubber and he sat down again unexpectedly .
29 Somehow his feelings became detached from the critical procedures ( not that he does not handle and assess his own work critically , which he does ) .
30 The cult of the martyr became detached from the general cult of the community 's dead members .
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