Example sentences of "[vb past] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her head beat from side to side and she said , ‘ Yes , yes , yes , yes , ’ again , then Lachlan — wiry , athletic-looking , skinny shanks ramming back and forth like some skinny bull — reached under her , pulled her up , his legs spreading , kneeling ; she hung onto him , arms round his neck , then after a few vertical stabs he threw her down , back onto the bed ; she grunted , arms still tight round his back , then she brought her legs up , right up over his thin , plunging , globe-buttocked behind , until her ankles were in the small of his back , rocking to and fro , feet crossed one over the other , locked there ; with one splayed hand she held onto his back , pressing him to her , and with the other hand she felt down the length of his body , over ribs and waist and hips , and with another grunt reached round and under , taking his balls in her hand , pressing them and kneading them and squeezing them . |
| 2 | The first room was a waiting-room , a ramshackle place where grey stuffing oozed from knife slashes across the plastic seats . |
| 3 | As to the latter he dismissed from consideration certain authorities relating to the admissibility in evidence of information obtained under powers similar to those which he had to consider , on the ground that the matters before him concerned , not the admissibility of replies to questions , but the right of the authorities to demand answers . |
| 4 | Dauntless dismounted from Contralto and led the horse forward . |
| 5 | They bounced from wall to wall , crossing and recrossing , and the violet light flickered in time with the sound . |
| 6 | They perished from hunger |
| 7 | This is another problem which surfaced from engineering attempts , but also makes itself evident in authorial blunders — the civil defence poster caption ‘ When a hand-grenade lands near by , do n't lose your head . |
| 8 | However , the idea that archive work might be used in the training of embryo diplomats still surfaced from time to time in France . |
| 9 | THE sudden popularity of the Portuguese escudo , which rose from obscurity to a position of strength inside the European exchange rate mechanism after it joined a week ago , could lead to the removal of restrictions on foreign investment earlier than planned . |
| 10 | Hugh Gaitskell , an economics don and wartime civil servant who was elected to Parliament in 1945 and in six years rose from backbencher to Chancellor of the Exchequer , illustrates with his diary entry for 14 October 1947 ( when he was Minister of Fuel and Power ) just how little impact Attlee 's directive of a year before had had on the performance of individuals : |
| 11 | We called at the cottage at night , and found he was very ill , and it was not till the factor assured him he was joking , and that he had swallowed none other than the best of whiskey , that he rose from bed , and Donald was himself again . |
| 12 | NEWCASTLE UNITED were so bad against New Zealand on Tuesday , said Kevin Keegan , he almost rose from retirement and the dug-out to apply a little first-hand help . |
| 13 | the extinct bird that rose from extinction |
| 14 | Ya'kub and Fenarizade Zeyneddin , for example , rose from kasabat kadiliks to the kadiliks of Aleppo , and Damascus and Aleppo , respectively not long after the Ottoman conquest of those two cities ; but whether this means that these scholars ' careers represent exceptions to the rule or , on the other hand , that Aleppo and Damascus were not yet regarded as mevleviyets is not entirely clear . |
| 15 | At the conclusion of the ceremony , shouts of congratulation rose from earth to heaven and the sound of kettle drums of joy rent the skies . |
| 16 | Mr Pope drew from memory a remarkably accurate sketch of the hexagonal table with headsets , an example of which I was able to inspect at Telecom Technology Showcase , as British Telecom calls its new museum . |
| 17 | He still drew from life , of men and women filing towards the mine shaft through the snow and of miners holding lamps , bent double under loaded sacks . |
| 18 | Indeed it drew from Moray the comment that this was the one matter that he had against their father : that he had married off his elder daughter , as a mere girl , to a man more than twice her age , as a matter of policy , to endeavour to attach Dunbar more firmly to the national cause , unsuccessful as this had been . |
| 19 | Acrid miasmas coiled from ventilation ducts and sewage flooded avenues . |
| 20 | It will built from scratch by Pickering Staplina in their Lancashire factory . |
| 21 | Eighteen schools are participating in the three performances , and invention from the six gathered in St Edmundsbury Cathedral on Tuesday ranged from dialogue with the odd splash of singing and recorder-music to fully composed masques using all available resources . |
| 22 | Conclusions ranged from condemnation of general practitioner care as ‘ erratic , ’ of ‘ generally poor standard ’ and ‘ less satisfactory than care by the hospital diabetic clinic ’ to a view that organised general practitioner diabetic care ‘ can achieve a degree of glycaemic control … equal to that reached by a hospital clinic . ’ |
| 23 | In the Fifties the things you bought to throw away ranged from Kleenex to baking tins , from razors with only one blade ( supplied by vending machine ) to watches not worth repairing . |
| 24 | The WTA matched the provision of its main competitors while undercutting their prices : holidays ranged from winter sports , world cruises ( three months , 165 guineas by freighter from Marseilles ) , tours of Lapland and biblical sites in Egypt , to courses on political theory at the international college in Elsinore and the Second Workers ' Olympiad held in Vienna in 1931 . |
| 25 | Jobs ranged from lockgate making to boat building and repairs to company housing . |
| 26 | The six naughtiest dogs in the North-East ranged from Bracken the cairn , who insisted on leaping up at every visitor , to Jessica the fearsome-looking rottweiler . |
| 27 | Thus , the wasp-nematode relationships ranged from commensal to clearly parasitic , in accord with their different transmission routes . |
| 28 | Returning to London , and influenced by Ruskin and Octavia Hill , she went to work as a volunteer at a number of slum-housing projects around Marylebone , where her contributions ranged from carpentry to moral tutoring and advising the poor of the district on careers , and attempting to lead them away from the evils of alcohol . |
| 29 | They ranged from tuck stitch and Fair Isle on the single bed through plain stocking stitch , three colours in a row jacquard and Fair Isle using chenille to soft felted wool . |
| 30 | Her methods of acquisition ranged from chance discoveries and bargain purchases in shops to point-blank admiration of other people 's possessions , which found some owners parting with their treasures as gifts , while others hid their bibelots when it was known that a visit from the Queen was imminent . |