Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] it [vb past] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The track had , he recalled , two branches , separating as it dropped from the heathy ridge that looked down upon the river . |
| 2 | The effect on the Reed price was electric , moving as it did from 485p on the day prior to the announcement to 531p at the close of trading on the day of the announcement and to 641p at year end . |
| 3 | And if the Mass enacted the social reality of the body of Christ , it also enacted the recognised pattern of personal contemplative experience , moving as it did from confession , the recognition of the condition of sin and fallen man , through the articulation of faith as revealed in Scripture and Creed , to the offering to God of the God-given fruits of human labour through which the gift of his presence is made known . |
| 4 | In most housing a centre light fitting , for example , goes unquestioned , although people would find even daylight very harsh and glaring if it poured from the centre of the sky all day . |
| 5 | Coming as it did from such a family — not only from Lazarus ' and Lyon 's own strenuous devotions to their faith , in which names are of the greatest significance , but also from that of Solomon Klinitsky-Klein , his maternal grandfather and his very similar tradition . |
| 6 | It maddened Adam , his misuse of this word , which could n't of course be applied to guiding anyone on land , coming as it did from the Latin navigare and thence from navis , feminine , a ship , and agere , to drive or guide . |
| 7 | And as England found to their cost only last month , it is an ideal which still thrives on the Continent , Norway 's equaliser coming as it did from a 30-yard out-of-the-blue effort . |
| 8 | The motion in favour of nuclear power , coming as it did from the Scottish NUM , represents a significant breakthrough in trades union thinking on energy issues . |
| 9 | The courts justified this vesting of managerial autonomy over the everyday business of the company in the hands of the directors by arguing that it flowed from the construction of a company 's articles of association which formed a contract between the members of the company . |