Example sentences of "[verb] from [pers pn] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loch of Stenness lies adjacent to Harray , separated from it by a narrow strip of moorland dominated by the Ring of Brodgar . |
| 2 | This is bordered by a continental slope which inclines at an angle of around 3–6° towards the ocean basin and which is separated from it by a continental rise ( Fig. 2.5 ) . |
| 3 | He turned from her with a casual wave of his hand and began making his way back towards the barn . |
| 4 | But Le Page and Tabouret-Keller 's hypothesis is not primarily concerned with interaction between an individual speaker and an interlocutor , although this might follow from it as a special case . |
| 5 | The cat withdrew from her like a sooty ghost and stole away along the slope towards the standing stone . |
| 6 | He was standing behind her now , and she could feel the energy emanating from him like a tangible force . |
| 7 | The statement went on to say that UITF 3 ‘ clearly indicates that the goodwill component should be included as part of the profit or loss on disposal , and not distanced from it as a separate item . |
| 8 | Come on , now — ’ He had no need to say more because Cameron had risen to his feet in the greying light and a song was coming from him in a steady flow of sound and a hard gravelly voice that resonated like a pipe . |
| 9 | Yes , but she could be parting from him in a different way — ; stealing away , running off , he was surprised she had never done so , that she had n't killed the old woman with a poison in the way she had perhaps schemed to kill him , that she had not held her under just a moment too long when she took her swimming that she had not simply abandoned her in the settlement . |
| 10 | The mail will probably take a couple of days longer to reach you from Sian , & no doubt we 'll be very busy when we get there , so forgive me if you do n't hear from me for a little while . |
| 11 | He remembered his own great grief , and how he had finally emerged from it with a renewed sense of purpose ; for though his epic was intended to address the spiritual crisis of the age , it had also been conceived as a requiem for his lost wife and a celebration of her unwavering faith in his ability . |
| 12 | I felt as though I was riding on a pink cloud with all the tension and misery flowing from me in a joyful torrent . |
| 13 | For she knew in an instant that the blue-eyed blond tot was not the baby snatched from her on a Greek island 14 months ago . |
| 14 | The words poured from him in a corrosive spate . |
| 15 | When the Incas controlled this area , I was told by The Rough Guide to Peru ( my chattier , more colourful back-up to the ‘ bible ’ ) , ‘ they considered the Uros so poor — almost sub-human — that only a section of hollow cane filled with lice was required from them as a monthly tribute . ’ |
| 16 | The President 's cabin lay three miles into the reserve , four miles to the north and a good eight hundred feet above the lodge , and divided from it by a small tributary of the Makaa so Trent could expect no help there even if the owner was in residence . |
| 17 | We were only twenty or thirty yards from the line-up , albeit divided from it by a thin blue line of helmeted , truncheon-tipped breakers . |