Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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a sort of exclusive club , arising al almost always through the ranks of the of the law , and gradually , gradually got withdrawn from the way that ordinary people think and feel . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Somehow his feelings became detached from the critical procedures ( not that he does not handle and assess his own work critically , which he does ) . |
| 5 | The cult of the martyr became detached from the general cult of the community 's dead members . |
| 6 | Traditional Hawaiian society only began to fall apart when the godhead became detached from the environment : when Captain Cook arrived and ushered in a foreign idol , ubiquitous , omnipotent , immortal , but disembodied , absent , invisible . |
| 7 | ‘ Bill says the Lorrimores ’ private car got detached from the train on Sunday evening . |
| 8 | What actually happened was that she somehow became separated from the others , decided to walk to work and fell in a ditch on her way up the hill . |
| 9 | If one knight became separated from the rest of his team he might find five or six opponents all bearing down on him at once , and one of them might strike him in the back . |
| 10 | The role of clerks became separated from the decision making of tribunals and presenting officers became much less adversarial in approach , both developments being the result of special training . |
| 11 | Coming home at dawn , exploring Dickens 's alleyways and squares , I somehow got separated from the others and went rushing round frantically trying to find them . |
| 12 | They were spotted by the enemy , who attacked , and in the ensuing mêlée , Shorten was killed and Sillito got separated from the others . |
| 13 | Kalchu was reflecting , wondering which of the shots we 'd heard from the house . |
| 14 | ‘ My sole reason for invading your maiden privacy , ’ he said with sarcasm , ‘ was because I 'd heard from the police . |
| 15 | Then there were the bruises on his knees and elbows that he 'd received from the fall over the trip-wire at Jacqui 's . |
| 16 | Some months ago , a reader sent me a copy of the form she 'd received from the States , but I was then advised this was n't likely to be honoured in law . |
| 17 | There was one man near Tynemouth who was known as ‘ Dead Bodies ’ , so named because he earned seven and sixpence for collecting ( by hook ) the corpses of suicides who 'd jumped from the Tyne Bridge , ten miles up-river . |
| 18 | a man stuck ‘ jewels ’ he 'd gathered from the beach |
| 19 | Every month he 'd read a list — it was a list of names of young men , and some women , who 'd vanished from the face of the earth . |
| 20 | ‘ It 'd vanished from the page , ’ he said . |
| 21 | The stories each picture told varied from the tragic to the hilarious : The expensive oil landscape which had had seagulls drawn on to the sky in ballpoint pen ; the ancient Highland cattle picture , swopped for food after the First World War by a travelling artist . |
| 22 | His voice came muffled from the cupboard . |
| 23 | The man who 'd caught Jude when she 'd dropped from the high-wire . |
| 24 | Unfortunately the label came detached from the image and now we do n't know who painted it ! |
| 25 | Unfortunately the label came detached from the image and now we do n't know who painted it ! |
| 26 | I think she 'd knitted it herself out of old pieces of string she 'd saved from the children 's birthday presents . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , I have , have n't I , ’ he had agreed cheerfully , clearly pleased at the speedy , efficient response to the phone calls he 'd made from the Meadowses ' ranch house the day before . |
| 28 | He wished he 'd hung from the rail and reduced the distance , but that would have taken several seconds to set up and his pursuer had already been half-way across the room . |
| 29 | Although the book was gripping , it was confusing at times and some events seemed detached from the story . |
| 30 | Stephen had gone out first , scrambling up the shaft , putting all his weight this time on the rope and wondering what would happen , whether they would ever be found alive , if the rope came unfastened from the spur of rock to which they had tied it . |