Example sentences of "[vb past] from [pos pn] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benedict rose from his own chair so hastily that it almost tipped over . |
| 2 | Transport was scarce and we had to carry special identity cards when we moved from our own villages . |
| 3 | When I moved from my own place er in Walmgate to here I still underestimated how much furniture I 'd got . |
| 4 | Che Guevara , whose analysis stemmed from his own experiences in Guatemala in 1954 ( Hodges : 1977 , pp. 15–16 ) , said , in an interview given on 18 April 1959 : |
| 5 | The coat and the lipstick came from her own work . |
| 6 | Brian came from her own home town , though she had not known him there : this had some significance , both acknowledged , though Liz could not have said what it was . |
| 7 | She heard a sound and realised it came from her own throat . |
| 8 | Perhaps that came from his own experience of human love — we do n't really know . |
| 9 | Thomas May 's earlier assumption would have been a perfectly natural one had he been dealing with a museum collection , but here at Templebrough , the sherds came from his own excavation , and the only conclusion to be drawn is that he had very little conception of the significance of stratified deposits . |
| 10 | Thereafter the sees were filled ; Sidonius himself returned to Clermont , where the chief opposition to him came from his own clergy . |
| 11 | He saw an arc of blood , and knew that it came from his own neck . |
| 12 | We came from our own country in a red room |
| 13 | She was in turn confused , amused , horrified by the things she read — and sometimes had that closer reaction , recognition of something suddenly true something she absolutely identified from her own experience , but had never put a name to . |
| 14 | ‘ Had my wife — her grandmother — been alive when Rose was orphaned she would have given her what she needed — and never received from her own mother — stability — a moral code . ’ |
| 15 | During the last half of 1960 , the Soviet leaders — perhaps conscious of having over-reached themselves in political terms , retreated from their former position as staunch defenders of the Cuban revolution , and adopted a far more equivocal tone . |
| 16 | These are only slightly smaller than the values we obtained from our own data . |
| 17 | Our experience of the way modern states exert control , restrict expression , manipulate language , has prompted us to search the past to see what similarities and differences existed from our own experience . |
| 18 | And , as you heard from her own mouth on the telephone this morning , she is fine , though she refuses to come home to you and your wife . ’ |
| 19 | The dullness she had felt in her exhaustion became a kind of sickness now , as for the second time that day she once again flew from her own body and split into two . |
| 20 | We can observe that she is happy only when she is furious , and do not need to have it suggested that her earlier nickname of ‘ Thatcher Milk-Snatcher ’ derived from her own breast-deprivation , which denies her all happiness and allows her ‘ only the sadistic triumphs of tawdry political and military victories . ’ |
| 21 | At home , the Japanese government has spearheaded a campaign to discredit reports that originated from its own news agency , Kyodo . |
| 22 | ‘ Camo , ’ she called from her own kitchen . |
| 23 | The Indians were buried with as much wealth as possible , and so they strove with the utmost diligence throughout their lives to acquire and amass all the gold they could , which they took from their own land and were buried with it … |
| 24 | All we took from our own home was a dressing table and a small chest of drawers . |
| 25 | She knew from her own experience that the whole person needed to be developed , not just a robot only capable of regurgitating examination fodder . |
| 26 | According to Dowie ( 1977 ) , this auto-company sold the Pinto model for a period of six years even though they knew from their own test researchers that the product , which had been rushed from design to production in the short period of twenty-five months instead of the planned forty-three , was dangerous . |
| 27 | The USSR , set against an international background of ethnic strife , was a ‘ truly unique example in the history of human civilisation ’ , as he knew from his own experience in the northern Caucasus . |
| 28 | Unless Andrew was lying , she knew from his own lips that the evidence had vanished by the time he arrived at rue Roland . |
| 29 | No one at the banquet could possibly have crossed the Firth of Forth in such weather with such speed and he knew from his own spies that only the King had crossed the Forth that night . |
| 30 | I mean , I knew from my own experience that carers were not getting the help , they were not getting the back-up , so any sort of really good telephone numbers I had laid my hands on got sort of written away in a wee book , and I was lucky enough to come across an association that actually backed up carers and actually were willing to sort of , put their life on the line and say to me , yes , you have got rights and you need support and we are here to give you that support . |