Example sentences of "[vb past] from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The joy and gaiety seeped from that hall as the masked player 's irritation became obvious . |
| 2 | Like a ping-pong ball he bounced from one emotion to another , knowing what he wanted but knowing also that it did not exist . |
| 3 | As he peered through his mind 's eye it seemed rather that the deepest water changed into a different type of material which sank down and down forever , tossed by its own fierce storms , swayed by its own currents that were swifter than any ocean 's — until far off elsewhere there surfaced from this immaterium yet other seas of life , which were other worlds . |
| 4 | The area of permanent grassland during the same period rose from 8,070 hectares to 9,391 hectares ( a 16% rise ) . |
| 5 | Values of LTB 2 rose with radiotherapy from 0.21 ng.mo - 1 ( median ) to 1.14 ng.ml - 1 ( p=0.012 ) ; PGE 2 rose from 0.60 ng.ml - 1 to 1.58 ng. ml - 1 ( p=0.038 ) , and TXB 2 rose from 0.365 ng.ml - 1 to 1.6 ng.ml - 1 ( p=0.005 ) . |
| 6 | Life expectancy for men rose from 70.8 years in 1981 to 73.2 years in 1991 , and for women from 76.8 to 78.8 years . |
| 7 | Values of LTB 2 rose with radiotherapy from 0.21 ng.mo - 1 ( median ) to 1.14 ng.ml - 1 ( p=0.012 ) ; PGE 2 rose from 0.60 ng.ml - 1 to 1.58 ng. ml - 1 ( p=0.038 ) , and TXB 2 rose from 0.365 ng.ml - 1 to 1.6 ng.ml - 1 ( p=0.005 ) . |
| 8 | When pneumoperitoneum was established , the femoral venous pressure rose from 4 mmHg to 9 mmHg . |
| 9 | The wages of building craftsmen rose from 1s 4d ( 6½p ) a day in the 1750s to 2s ( 10p ) in the mid 1770s and 2s 6d ( 12½p ) around 1790 , with the most distinct upward trend peaking around 1780 . |
| 10 | Underpants rose from unexpected corners , on collision courses with snaking socks . |
| 11 | After his inclusion in the side the Town rose from seventeenth place to third , where they finished the season , their highest position yet . |
| 12 | Gushers rose from disconnected water pipes , and the Dream matter sludged instantly . |
| 13 | Instead expectation of life rose from 36.8 years in 1796–1800 to 40.2 in 1836–40 ( Wrigley and Schofield 1981 ) ; these correspond to CDRs of 25.1 and 21.7 respectively . |
| 14 | Young Warren Barton , the Wimbledon full-back , rose from non-League novice to England B status under Harford 's meticulous tutelage . |
| 15 | The shells of shops and houses rose from scrubby grasslands . |
| 16 | Our working interest production rose from 85,000 boepd to 184,000 boepd , chiefly as a result of the additional production from the Ultramar acquisition . |
| 17 | In addition to opening up the northern prairies , it produced a land boom in northern British Columbia , where land values rose from 50 cents an acre to 30–60 dollars an acre in the space of a few years , and created a new Pacific port at Prince Rupert , 500 miles north of Vancouver , a new town where the population reached 5,000 in the space of two years . |
| 18 | By 1964 there were 4.4 million TV sets ; a second TV channel began transmitting programming in April ; the amount of programming transmitted by the two channels rose from 4000 hours annually to 7400 hours ( 1964–7 ) ; the number of TV sets rose by a million a year between 1964 and 1967 . |
| 19 | American car output rose from 4000 cars per annum in 1900 to 4 800 000 in 1929 . |
| 20 | Small wonder that the Krupp works in Essen rose from seventy-two workers in 1848 to almost 12,000 in 1873 , or that Schneider in France had multiplied to 12,500 in 1870 , so that more than half the population of the town of Creusot worked in their blast furnaces , rolling-mills , power-hammers and engineering workshops . |
| 21 | Production rose from 153 films in 1932 to 212 in 1936 , and the returns were insufficient to justify such expansion . |
| 22 | Though Cranmer drew from many sources , it was his own touch which gave the Prayer Book the charm , perfection of form and expression which were to endow the Church of England for centuries with unity , strength and a way to the hearts of men . |
| 23 | ( Stalin drew from archaic models which emphasized the pyramidal tomb [ Lenin 's ] as the centre of a tribal cult based on forced labour punctuated by religious ceremonies [ May Day ; 7 November ] . ) |
| 24 | Skylark-like song , including both frequent notes mimicked from other birds , and its own jangling corn-bunting-like ‘ kleetra ’ call note , uttered either in high wide circular song flight , or lower down with curious slow wing action , or even on ground . |
| 25 | From their respective sites at Stowmarket and Peterborough , Prentice and Alcock could work out the heights and paths of the dust particles by triangulation , showing that these sporadic meteors were members of the Solar System , in contradiction to the view of professional astronomers in the United States who believed that they entered from interstellar space . |
| 26 | From these fragments I reconstructed the brooding melancholy of a land subject to disaster after disaster , a family forced out through poverty , and I wove from insubstantial vapour the misty quilt in which I sensed his childhood to have been enveloped . |
| 27 | By combining information on ships and shipowners found in the Liverpool Plantation Registers with material on the voyages of the same ships to Africa and the Americas gleaned from other trade and shipping records , it is possible to reconstruct in considerable depth a major port 's involvement in the Atlantic trades at this time , and to begin to assess their impact on economic change in its hinterland . |
| 28 | The nine gleaned from this encounter puts Essex ahead of the field on 30 points , with Norfolk one-and-a-half behind as the six-time winners prepare for a final match against Cambridgeshire . |
| 29 | Ah no , still got that other tape you taped from last night have n't you ? |
| 30 | It could be gathered by inshore divers down to ten metres and where necessary dredged from greater depths by nets weighed down by heavy timber frames . |