Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took much will-power for the man to drag himself away , presently , on one of Dunbar 's best horses , but consoled and heartened by receiving the best kiss , on parting , that had yet come from Mariot Randolph . |
| 2 | They met head on with elements of that teenage army that had also emerged from 1956 . |
| 3 | She stood up , holding aloft the red geranium that had somehow slipped from Ronni 's hand . |
| 4 | After a short time , some of the braver members of the group drew up their courage to watch West Germany v The United Arab Emirates on the portable black and white that had mysteriously disappeared from the bedroom of 43a St. Clements and reappeared in the canteen room of the Family Centre . |
| 5 | TWO new RSC shows that have just transferred from Stratford to the Barbican could not be more different . |
| 6 | When The Waste Land appeared , Untermeyer had become more irate : ‘ The Dial 's award to Mr T. S. Eliot and the subsequent bookpublication of his The Waste Land have occasioned a display of some of the most enthusiastically naive superlatives that have ever issued from publicly sophisticated iconoclasts ’ . |
| 7 | What we were just saying Cath was , we was just trying to look at the , the tape that 's just come from Marcus , the erm the film and |
| 8 | It 's the worst thing that 's ever come from any political Party and all associated problems live on , and all we have at the moment is one statement after the other from the Ministers which blame the very people that it attacks . |
| 9 | He regularly visits eastern Europe and has just returned from Czechoslovakia . |
| 10 | Catherine , who was born in Middlesbrough , trained at Newcastle and has just returned from working in Australia . |
| 11 | In recent years , the Inspectorate has been seen as understaffed and underfunded and has allegedly suffered from low morale . |
| 12 | Matches were played against local hearing teams , and after a promising start , the club almost folded in 1879 following a disastrous season but was re-organised , and has since gone from strength to strength , with various changes in name . |
| 13 | On Paul 's first day he arranged four appointments for our consultants with prospective clients , and has since gone from strength to strength . |
| 14 | Invesco French Growth which , as the name suggests , invests solely in France , was the top performer over one year and has clearly benefited from more favourable market conditions in France compared with most of the other European countries . |
| 15 | In setting a precedent , the BWG created the opportunity for others to make their demands and needs widely known from an organized base . |
| 16 | When my parents did eventually reply , their letter was full of the most ordinary details of life in England and seemed far removed from my experiences in the Legion . |
| 17 | He was always immaculately presented , exuding self-confidence and charm , and appeared totally detached from the horrific nature of his crimes , which he believed were a ‘ mission ’ he had to perform . |
| 18 | Chattopadhyay had served as a Minister under Indira Gandhi in the 1970s ; following the November 1989 Lok Sabha elections he had unsuccessfully called for the resignation of Rajiv Gandhi as Congress ( I ) leader and had eventually resigned from the party . |
| 19 | He was only twenty-six and had just recovered from a slipped disc . |
| 20 | What had really confused everyone was the fact that Kemp always carried a hip-flask of brandy in the car 's glove compartment , and that he had given his wife — trapped by the legs beside him — several sips from this flask before the ambulance arrived ; and had even drunk from it himself ! |
| 21 | Charles Taylor , a former government employee who was charged in 1984 with theft of government funds [ see p. 32898 ] and had subsequently escaped from custody in the USA , claimed that a previously unknown group led by him , the National Patriotic Forces of Liberia ( NPFL ) , was responsible for the rebellion . |
| 22 | Edmund Sparkler born there during a ‘ mighty frost ’ in which , his companions say , ‘ his brain had been frozen up … and had never thawed from that hour ’ . |
| 23 | The Norfolk worsted manufacture , unique in having spread from Norwich to an arable farming district , had always remained dispersed in small units without great clothiers and had never recovered from its recession in the previous century . |
| 24 | I thought that his appearance meant he had really been suffering very much , longing for me to give up my work , and had only refrained from asking me to do so out of respect for my ‘ rights ’ . |
| 25 | Employment here peaked in 1975 and had somewhat recovered from its lowest level of 1981 by 1984 . |
| 26 | The decorated samian was illustrated by means of rubbings , but the descriptions are carefully detailed with full references and dates clearly derived from Knorr and Déchelette . |
| 27 | They have capitalized on the move towards self-catering by heavily introducing this element into their operations and have also benefited from the 1983 and 1984 slight trend back towards domestic holiday taking . |
| 28 | We insisted on seeing this letter and have never heard from him since . |
| 29 | The nurse should strive for the middle way between total involvement in the job dominating her personal life to the point where her development as a person is impaired and her health jeopardised ; and the other extreme in which she may be technically proficient , but appears totally detached from the work both emotionally and socially . |
| 30 | The results were a setback for the SDP , which won most southern states in the local council elections of December 1990 but had since suffered from well-publicized internal feuding . |