Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since I mention native speakers ' feelings in this connection , and since I am elsewhere rather sceptical about appeals to native speakers ' feelings , I had better explain that in this case my evidence comes from the native speakers of English I have taught in practical classes on transcription over many years . |
| 2 | I felt that it was pretty rotten after the way the chap helped us , especially as my friend came from a staunch Church family . |
| 3 | I had been working for more than an hour and my wrists ached from the continuous chopping , but I was filled with an immense exhilaration . |
| 4 | and myself or as he was better known , came through B Seventeen Transition School at in Florida together and where the crews were formed so that the names in the Army of course are worked alphabetically , so everybody on my crew is trained with everybody on crew and their last name is just ahead erm in the alphabetic in the class that they were in , so that my navigator came from the same school , the same navigation class as . |
| 5 | I did not like the prospect of playing in front of all these people who were all older than me and would see my violin playing from a critical view , but I had come this far , and it would be stupid not to go through with the audition . |
| 6 | Why , my family came from a two bit shack . |
| 7 | Ben Hesketh , an antique dealer , was a friend of Jake 's whom Ruth remembered from the old days — Jake 's only friend , really . |
| 8 | If a child does not know any other black people , he or she does not value them ; all his or her values descend from the adoptive parents . |
| 9 | The United States on March 24 announced its decision to withdraw from the International Sugar Organization ( ISO ) , which brought together all major producers and consumers of sugar . |
| 10 | SECRET talks were held yesterday between United States and North Korean representatives as Washington urged Pyongyang to reconsider its decision to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty . |
| 11 | Curiously , although the proof had incorporated Alistair 's corrections , the published version revered to the typescript , in which Brad escaped from the Nebulan lab seemingly without concern for a Chelsi last glimpsed on an operating table with a syringe full of Phobian viper venom being eased into her neck … |
| 12 | Her fingers withdrew from the soft cloth and her cheeks went rose-pink with humiliation . |
| 13 | Blindly she moved forward , panic crashing now through every barrier she had managed , through her twenty precarious years , to erect against it , flooding her whole mind , sweeping away her sense of reason and reality , so that she could already feel the coarse fustian of prison clothing and workhouse clothing against her body as she ran , could feel her skin crawl from every one of prison 's basic indignities , her stomach heave with revulsion . |
| 14 | Their homes ranged from the large subterranean winter lodges of the Nivkhs to light summer huts of branches , reeds and bark which in some cases were raised on stilts . |
| 15 | There is provision for the GAL to be separately represented if their recommendation differs from the young person , and if they are of sufficient age and understanding to instruct the solicitor themselves ( the GAL will advise solicitors about this ) . |
| 16 | During the 1980s both the community and its schools suffered from the severe effects of deindustrialisation , which for the schools was compounded by an above average drop in pupil numbers caused by a fall in the birth rate . |
| 17 | Her eyes dropped from the massive glass chandelier and swept around the apartment . |
| 18 | Leonora kept her temper with difficulty , feeling ridiculous with her legs dangling from the high stool . |
| 19 | A hole in the wall , through which light shone from the next room . |
| 20 | With her ears ringing from the massive blast of the weapon she threw herself down and crawled across to the wall by the front door , able to see back through the sitting-room to the kitchen . |
| 21 | Her mouth burned from the angry possession of that kiss , her lips were swollen , throbbing with tempestuous heat , and in the momentary stillness that followed they stood apart , facing each other like warriors poised in the midst of battle . |
| 22 | Its habitat extends from the cool mountain streams with a temperature of 66°F to the warmer regions where the water temperature barely goes below 70°F . |
| 23 | The Picture that had so nearly secured its hold faded from the refracting blankness in the instant it took Harry to realize what it was that Kingdom wanted from him . |
| 24 | Consequently , if young children really do lack the ability to handle explanations , their capacity to benefit from the early years of schooling will be severely restricted . |
| 25 | Do you find that , as Adrienne Rich wrote of Marie Curie , ‘ her wounds came from the same source as her power ? ’ |
| 26 | Much of their charm comes from the careful way that the characters were conceived . |
| 27 | One night the young peasant , his spirit stunned by the violent or luxurious language in which Stephen escaped from the cold silence of intellectual revolt , had called up before Stephen 's mind a strange vision . |
| 28 | British Rail could win back part of the record damages paid to a widow after her husband died from an asbestos-related disease . |
| 29 | This relief , it may be added , was matched for a while by the exemption of some forty villages in the West Riding in 1319 , and of 128 villages in the North Riding in 1322 , from lay taxes because of the scale of their poverty resulting from the Scottish raids . |
| 30 | At the western outskirts of the town is the Bliss Valley Tweed Mill , an imposing stone-built factory which , if it were not for its chimney rising from a domed tower , would look like a great country mansion . |