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 | With a flourish he produced another motley collection of spinning components , this time cobbled together from the Chelonians ' technical stores . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As Meryl leaned forward in the alcove , poised to stand , Gladys emerged soundlessly from the ladies ' corridor , still wearing her garish dress . |
| 8 | If I want to relax I go out in the garden , anywhere to get away from the kids ' bawling . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Population figures were obtained directly from the practices ' computer systems . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |