Example sentences of "[verb] from [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the suggestion might well have come from him in the first place , which would have been so much better for everyone . |
| 2 | Here and there logs surfaced from it like the inclined hulls of sinking ships . |
| 3 | He watched her dab her cheeks , then wipe her eyes , his heart torn from him by the tiny shudder she gave . |
| 4 | Before the side-car receded from her along the straight avenue , she observed a gun case ( sometimes Anderson shot the bogs with Dada ) , a rod case , and a bulging Gladstone bag tied together in the space ( called the well ) situated between the opposite wings of the sidecar . |
| 5 | Loch of Stenness lies adjacent to Harray , separated from it by a narrow strip of moorland dominated by the Ring of Brodgar . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Clara 's one solace had been the cold , tight dignity of her case , and this had been stolen from her , robbed from her by an elderly woman 's few words of casual humanity . |
| 8 | ‘ It came from me in the first place , did n't it ? |
| 9 | He turned from her with a casual wave of his hand and began making his way back towards the barn . |
| 10 | But the polyptychs ' data , even if it 's unwise to generalise from them to the whole kingdom , may still be taken to show a relatively dense , if patchily distributed , population in the area they best cover , namely , that between the rivers Seine and Rhine . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The cat withdrew from her like a sooty ghost and stole away along the slope towards the standing stone . |
| 15 | She could n't face seeing that realisation in his eyes , for the sake of her own sanity had to get away — had to flee from him for a second time . |
| 16 | He was standing behind her now , and she could feel the energy emanating from him like a tangible force . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A. borealis is similar to A. fragilis but may be distinguished from it by the following characters : the shape of the modified arm spines which are flattened often with an axe shaped tip in borealis , while those of fragilis have a serrated edge ; the number of arm spines ; borealis has 3–4 , fragilis has 5–7 arm spines ; the distal oral papillae , which in borealis are small and low , often two on each side of the jaw , in fragilis they are slightly larger and more spine-like , with usually only one on each side of the jaw . |
| 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 | So much of its beauty had been stripped from it by the whipping winds . |
| 22 | he 's not , he 's not , he 's not a , he 's not stupid , Christopher , he , he 's certainly not stupid , and er he must have seen , I mean I assume he keeps his bank statements , I mean I 'm afraid we have one or two bank statements which show thousands of pounds that he 's received from us over the last year erm and , you know , he ca n't blind because they 've all gone through his bank account , you know , he must |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He would lead me through small flocks of goats , or to where the traffic was worst , and then briefly hide from me in the narrow alley-ways or the open shops . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I wondered if you might have seen either of them or heard from them over the past few days . ’ |
| 27 | The army would also reopen its ranks to Hutus , who were purged from it after the ethnic warfare of 1972 . |
| 28 | As they came up , Meredith was surprised at the amount of body-heat coming from them in the low outside temperature . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |