Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] from [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He watched her dab her cheeks , then wipe her eyes , his heart torn from him by the tiny shudder she gave . |
| 2 | When Simon the Trapper parted from him on the great north ride the Friar loosened the rope that girdled his waist , dragged up his gown a score of inches to free the movement of his lower legs , re-tied his girdle tightly , wiped his hands on the none too clean garment and taking hold of his staff set off up the highway in pursuit of his sack , of Marian , and of the verderers . |
| 3 | He felt at rest , the dark weight of tension lifted from him by the woman . |
| 4 | He stabbed a man scrambling up the bulwarks beside him , and cheered as Hector 's galleys swept up to the shore and another horde of Macleans poured from them to the rescue of their clansmen . |
| 5 | One part of the project was of course specifically concerned with creating a core of schools and the dissemination of good practice derived from them in the inservice education and training of teachers ( Objective 4 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ I have n't any serious plans to marry him , if that 's what you 're asking , ’ she told him as levelly as she could , and had the hardest work in the world in hanging on to her temper when his glance flicked from her through the open door into her sitting-room . |
| 7 | The words poured from him in a corrosive spate . |
| 8 | The words burst from him in an angry rush , and she glanced at him in surprise . |
| 9 | The device driver then compresses any data saved to the disk and decompresses data read from it on the fly . |
| 10 | Mr. Back Q.C. , for the appellant , contended that if Mr. Occhi consented to the appellant taking the £6 , he consented to the property in the money passing from him to the appellant and that the appellant had not , therefore , appropriated property belonging to another . |
| 11 | Yeah hall hired from you for a function |
| 12 | The cat withdrew from her like a sooty ghost and stole away along the slope towards the standing stone . |
| 13 | The unwinding of such assistance ( repayment of loans given by the Bank to the market or resale to the market of bills bought from it by the Bank ) will drain market liquidity and will , of course , be known by the Bank in advance . |
| 14 | As they came up , Meredith was surprised at the amount of body-heat coming from them in the low outside temperature . |
| 15 | The prosecutor 's pretrial dossier , which contains a substantial input by the police , has a considerable influence on the outcome of the case since the judge works from it at the trial in developing the case and examining witnesses and accused alike . |
| 16 | He saw , as though some wall painting had come to life before his eyes , the glitter of steel and the minute clusters of rainbow colours just moving over the crest of one rise , to descend into the next bowl ; and riding towards them , negligently like men out hawking , he saw a smaller group , no more than half a dozen mounted men , who had been until this moment hidden from them by the lie of the land . |
| 17 | Reluctantly she made her way back to the house , then gave a gasp of dismay as Penry erupted from it like a rocket . |
| 18 | The ideological dimensions of this model are evident from the racist implications drawn from it by the Oxford geologist W. J. Sollas in his influential book Ancient Hunters of 1911 . |
| 19 | She noticed the way his chest heaved , the rivers of desire flowing from him across the room to burn her body with unbearable heat . |
| 20 | For instance , in a dry country , animals and plants work to maintain the fluid content of their cells , work against a natural tendency for water to flow from them into the dry outside world . |
| 21 | Although compensation was given to the deportees for possessions stolen from them during the journey , no compensation was offered to the schoolchildren who were forced by internment to leave school or job training to which , in most cases , they were unable to return . |
| 22 | If he had not actually gone into the room he would not have seen Gina ; she was standing against one of the bookcases hidden from him by the open door . |
| 23 | Here and there logs surfaced from it like the inclined hulls of sinking ships . |
| 24 | Lesley walked to the microphone as the chairperson retreated from it to a spatter of applause . |
| 25 | Maxim looked from her to the marble and back . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Doyle looked from him to the Woman and back again and his face twisted into an expression of complete scorn . |
| 28 | The sides of the crater were made as secure as possible and the hole leading from it to the underground workings was fully exposed and kept clear . |
| 29 | Shelling , apparently from Muslim positions , also rained down on the airport , hub of the international relief airlift for the besieged capital , and closed the road leading from it into the city , UN officials said . |
| 30 | Team Costa Rica were openly demoralised and reduced to tears by their disqualification and Cafe Britt had any chance of success stolen from them with the retirement of an injured team member . |