Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 'd vanished from the page , ’ he said . |
| 2 | It seemed to flow from a weaker to a stronger system , thus acting contrary to the Second Law of Thermodynamics . |
| 3 | It seemed to come from a bin outside the bank . |
| 4 | The full impact of it seemed to come from the roof , and was so strong that she jerked up in bed . |
| 5 | It seemed to come from the Market Cross . |
| 6 | It was a movement so subtle that it seemed to occur from the corner of her eye . |
| 7 | It happened to lead from the old barracks ( still used for housing a garrison ) up to the hill pass above the town . |
| 8 | Using early documentary evidence , Olive Geddes guides the reader expertly through the first four centuries of the sport , shedding light on its birth , the techniques and equipment used , and above all , its social standing as it began to develop from an outlawed activity to the world 's most internationally popular game . |
| 9 | The salt made the ice melt , so the ice took the heat it needed to melt from the cream mixture which got colder until it froze and became ice cream . |
| 10 | What happened to Italy when it decided to move from the wide band to the narrow band within the ERM ? |
| 11 | But the model of management that lay at the heart of this strategy was narrow , both in its conception of what makes the management of public services distinctive and in the lessons it chose to draw from the business world . |
| 12 | So even if it managed to escape from the scientists ' clutches in Britain , it could not turn into another exotic pest , like the mink in Britain or the rabbit in Australia . |
| 13 | Of course , the result was , anybody watching you timed how long it took to go from the Dock gate to sign in and put it on the spike . |
| 14 | El País of July 8 noted González " reticence on the question of human rights , which it said resulted from the Spanish government 's hopes of turning to its advantage a downturn in Morocco 's relations with France [ see p. 38354 ] . |
| 15 | South Korea made an eleventh hour concession on Aug. 12 by suggesting that the North might be permitted to select only those whom it wished to receive from the 61,000 names on the list . |
| 16 | The Hong Kong economy performed poorly in the first half of 1990 , but not nearly as badly as in the second half of 1989 when it had suffered from the international reaction to the upheavals in China . |
| 17 | Its distinctiveness lay in the degree of autonomy it had achieved from the ‘ dominating ’ class , a class which in fact was ‘ hardly emerging from destitution and darkness and has no tradition of dominion or command ’ . |
| 18 | By the second year , it had moved from a sectoral base to a country base , to help achieve cross-sector policy objectives . |
| 19 | It seemed a part of nature 's force , as though it had erupted from the earth rather than being bolted to it . |
| 20 | May we not reasonably suppose that it had migrated from the central regions of this vast continent , which has yet much in store for future discovery ? |
| 21 | The first indeed had presented itself as no more than vivid memory , though — if she were honest with herself — she would admit it had arisen from a kind of fear . |
| 22 | There was not enough food being grown on the farms and the government could not afford to pay for all of the grain it had requisitioned from the farmers . |
| 23 | With the handing over to the Council of Europe in 1960 of the social and cultural responsibilities it had inherited from the Treaty of Brussels , it seemed that to all intents and purposes WEU had become moribund . |
| 24 | In 1968 the Council moved from the premises in Park Crescent it had inherited from the NCTA to larger offices in Devonshire Street ( formerly occupied by the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations ) . |
| 25 | Furnas insisted that the most recent stoppage was for routine maintenance until Greenpeace made public information about the incident that it had received from a worker at the plant , later confirmed by the Brazilian nuclear energy commission . |
| 26 | Clarke virtually admitted that he did not believe that these important issues should be discussed in public when he defended the government 's decision not to publish the advice on science funding which it had received from the Advisory Board for the Research Councils . |
| 27 | Once it had withdrawn from the BCOA , Pittston rejected the union contract and cut off health benefits to 1,500 widows , disabled miners , and pensioners . |
| 28 | Thus although the Bank of England has been obliged to restore the amount of cash it had withdrawn from the system , there has been an equal and opposite decrease in bills plus money at call held by the banks . |
| 29 | It had fallen from a high point of $90 per tonne to as low as $30 per tonne . |
| 30 | The body was thrown off on to the track and the investigators with the exception of Sherlock Holmes were deceived into believing it had fallen from a carriage . |