Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] 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 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | The words poured from him in a corrosive spate . |
| 6 | The device driver then compresses any data saved to the disk and decompresses data read from it on the fly . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Mike Twite was one of eleven souls taken from us in the Varsity disaster of August 1984 . |
| 15 | The culmination of these claims to national identity and of sentiments of this nature came in the preamble to Henry VIII 's Act in Restraint of Appeals of 1533 : ‘ Where by dyvers sundrie old autentike histories and cronicles it is manifestly declared and expressed that this Realme of England is an Impire , and so hath been accepted in the world … . ’ ( 36 , iii , 427 ) Here one finds an explicit statement of views on the nature of England , as well as practical conclusions drawn from them concerning the government of the Church . |
| 16 | A typical example is of the large , London-based public company with a warehouse in South Wales where obsolete stock was not properly stored one Friday evening and radioactive material drained from it into the local river . |
| 17 | A recipe for it or a description of this beguiling dish of peppers , onions , tomatoes and eggs appears in every one of his books , even down to the booklet commissioned from him by the Romary biscuit firm and which sold for sixpence . |