Example sentences of "[verb] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the street outside the Marriott , in the rather rum section of town the locals affectionately have dubbed Pigalle Place , we had encountered Malgosia , a twenty-three-year-old prostitute , disembarking from a car . |
| 2 | To defend their installed bases , equipment manufacturers , Input says , are responding to the trend by offering a growing portfolio of productised services which can be picked and mixed from a catalogue of traditional and new services . |
| 3 | Inside , the venue is dark , sweaty , with a pounding house beat from a rota of name DJs such as Alfredo , Danny Rampling and Andy Weatherall . |
| 4 | If he needs lifting , he is likely to need a commode , unless there is enough room around the toilet to allow for him to be lifted from a wheelchair to the toilet seat . |
| 5 | Almost concurrently came the report of Geoffrey Boycott having his golf clubs lifted from a train and chasing after the thief as though in pursuit of one of his own runs . |
| 6 | Apparently the profile was taken straight from an old late-'50s Gold Top belonging to Paul Chandler , while the Austin Special 's neck was lifted from a pre-CBS Strat . |
| 7 | A SCHOOLBOY had to be lifted from a ravine after plunging 100 ft on a four-wheeled motor buggy and breaking his leg . |
| 8 | Venables was lifted from a precarious 30-degree ice slope , by an Indian army helicopter pilot flying perilously close to his aircraft 's maximum altitude limit . |
| 9 | If you are a gold fanatic , keep a look out for Sotheby 's mountain of coins , ingots and doubloons lifted from a shipwreck off Montevideo , Uruguay . |
| 10 | He had been lifted from a detention cell and given the job of English teacher because the Colonel liked a boy who could smile into the face of an interrogator who wielded a rubber truncheon . |
| 11 | Like an orange lifted from a fruit-bowl |
| 12 | The mist had lifted from a countryside now hard and black under an iron frost . |
| 13 | The interim dividend is being lifted from an adjusted 2.7p to 3.02p on June 18 . |
| 14 | Like a cigarette lifted from an ashtray |
| 15 | When the seaman Peters , a thief and later a mutineer , protests against the commuting of the death sentence to the disgrace of being flogged round the fleet , Marryat as author finds it a matter for critical comment that the members of the court-martial are clearly surprised that a mere seaman should act from a sense of honour : |
| 16 | But a nice young man who wanted a bit of chivvying from a jolly girl-friend . |
| 17 | Er is what you 're saying , what , what you 're saying apply equally erm spitting rather , if I sort information from it , I 'm not quite sure what sort information I could seek from a commission , got any suggestions in that |
| 18 | For me , going on a strict vegan diet where all animal products were banned , where there was no place for tea or coffee , where even fish , eggs , salt and sugar were forbidden , was like leaping from a warm bed into the icy seas of Antarctica . |
| 19 | A BUXOM woman stunned pensioner Jack Cookson — by leaping from a car and flashing her boobs . |
| 20 | I held her to me as we fell across the bed , feeling her lithe life-force twitching against me as beautiful as a rainbow trout , leaping from a mill race into my outstretched arms . |
| 21 | But he went for it : two dolphins leaping from a sea turned dark red at sunset . |
| 22 | CLEVELAND police are today hoping to interview a man thought to have made an attempted suicide bid by leaping from a Stockton bridge . |
| 23 | He was a boy again , leaping from a rock into one of the sweet rivers of Yorkshire . |
| 24 | The ‘ rule of thirds ’ has been treated as the standard method of division , but other arrangements were sometimes made which might reflect the contractor 's view of the likely profits to be won from a particular campaign . |
| 25 | Although the viewer 's eye is won from a consideration of material possessions to the contemplation of transcendent values , it is ‘ things ’ themselves which , properly understood , call his attention to this higher truth . |
| 26 | The responses indicated that 28 per cent would prefer to buy through a building society ; 27 per cent said they would buy from a salesman in their own home . |
| 27 | Once cut , however , they should be treated as any other cold meat and kept under refrigeration , usually with the cut end covered — do not buy from a cut salame which is not refrigerated . |
| 28 | List ten things that you can buy from a vending machine . |
| 29 | You also need brushes which you can buy from a hardware store . |
| 30 | The South Americans have come from a five-nation tournament in Hamburg , where they beat Spain 2-1 and lost to Australia 3-2 . |