Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] from [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ When our case was originally rejected we got calls from authorities all over the country saying ‘ What 's going on ? ’ . ’
2 At Steeple Claydon , on the other hand , where nine land assessments compare with only three actual freeholders , there were some fifty inhabitants all told , of whom only four drew income from land.l Either custom or convention hereabouts militated against subletting , or officials in the Buckingham hundreds ignored land that was not freehold , for far fewer owners were recorded there than in the remainder of the county .
3 Marion 's urgent hand on his arm cooled Lachlan from explosive down to merely seething .
4 Indeed , even a trader who withheld credit from women simply because they are women could be within the law if he could show that women were unreliable payers .
5 Group 2 comprised biopsies from patients previously diagnosed as having coeliac disease .
6 Group 3 comprised biopsies from patients previously diagnosed as having coeliac disease who admitted not adhering to a gluten free diet .
7 Here the teacher needs the ability to call on different levels of presentation — graded illustrations or examples or maybe graded presentations from pictures through to other more abstract notations .
8 We retreat to the inside , where marketers and pinstriped shirts from TV AM suck on Saturday Specials .
9 The bride-to-be , in smart turquoise suit and carrying a posy of white flowers , flew north from Heathrow yesterday on an RAF Queen 's Flight .
10 David Blunkett , replying for the national executive , persuaded delegates from Kingston-upon-Thames not to press the motion calling for a commitment to sack all the health authority chairmen and senior managers appointed by the present administration .
11 Time passed and the afternoon light began to fade and Creggan was just beginning to think that he might go back to the carrion he had found before the incoming tide took it , when he saw movement from shadows far below , and the opening of great wings .
12 Upon their release in May , Lin expelled Matheson from China forever , but the Scot retreated first to Macao and then to Hong Kong , to resume opium sales in secret , with 200 per cent profits on fresh supplies from India .
13 In early 1989 the Recruit scandal forced Takeshita from office prematurely [ see p. 36589 ] , but also implicated Abe to such an extent — it forced him to resign as LDP secretary-general — that the premiership once again eluded him .
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