Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] from [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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1 | Related manufacturing industries such as food processing , chemicals and engineering suffered keenly from the ports ' decline and the surrounding areas endured massive job losses and an exodus of their people . |
2 | Villages and timber plants are to be relocated away from the pandas ' habitat … |
3 | It was supposed to be the parched Wild West , with dust spraying up from the horses ' hooves and the wheels . |
4 | And who could have guessed that , with said gnashers playing him up , he would have to hand over one of his duties — and that a Labour MP would be called in from the subs ' bench . |
5 | With a flourish he produced another motley collection of spinning components , this time cobbled together from the Chelonians ' technical stores . |
6 | When I eventually got home the crumpet packet was lying empty on the kitchen floor while Bilbo Baggins , the new puppy my daughters had brought home from the dogs ' home , was lying full beside it . |
7 | I hate that , I really do , thank God I 'm at boarding school cos I hate , the worst bit is like when they get , I remember when I was at day school and them coming home from the parents ' evening and I was |
8 | It was then that the signal fire was lit which Allen watched from his tree-top. from end to end of the forest smoke rose in response , and when to east , to west , to south , and north the signal stations were assembled the message went out from the outlaws ' camp : ‘ The Cage is Open . ’ |
9 | Instructions I copied out from a girls ' annual for 1954 . |
10 | Well , children can be allowed to express their anxieties verbally and to learn perhaps from the adults ' modelling around them that to talk about these things in moderation is perfectly acceptable erm but not to do it to the extent or to allow children to perhaps watch the news coverage to the extent that they become over excited and are not able to contain their own feelings of anxiety about loss and damage and death and separation from parents and significant adults . |
11 | As Meryl leaned forward in the alcove , poised to stand , Gladys emerged soundlessly from the ladies ' corridor , still wearing her garish dress . |
12 | After a meagre supper of beans left over from the orderlies ' meal , Pétain slept , huddled in an armchair . |
13 | If I want to relax I go out in the garden , anywhere to get away from the kids ' bawling . ’ |
14 | Sweeping up from the adventurers ' blind side ( either a ridge line above their heads or out of the mist ) comes a ragged flock of Carrion , one of these undead birds for every two adventurers ( but at least three in any event ) . |
15 | She glanced in the long mirror and , apparently satisfied , opened an oak chest and took out a drab fustian cloak of the type customarily worn by maidservants of the lower order , the which she had borrowed earlier from the servants ' quarters on a pretext . |
16 | Population figures were obtained directly from the practices ' computer systems . |
17 | Singled out from the dogs ' home Sorrel knew she was destined for a special life . |
18 | Before the 1979 election the party took advantage of the Winter of Discontent to toughen its manifesto proposals , promising to curtail flying pickets , or picketing away from the pickets ' place of work , and provide funds for pre-strike ballots of union members and for the election of union officials . |
19 | The accountability of the government arises simply from the ministers ' desire to win the next election and , as individuals , to have the minimum of embarrassment and the maximum of political credit . |