Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] from a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hugh was watching them suspiciously from a nearby table . |
| 2 | Communication policies are changing rapidly , yet there is a need to assess them constantly from an ethical perspective . |
| 3 | JOHN Major attempted to distance himself yesterday from a renewed row over Tory intervention in the US election which threatens to overshadow his first meeting with President Clinton . |
| 4 | Uplift yourself from your lower self , even as an elephant draws himself up from a muddy swamp . |
| 5 | This is an understandable reaction to some of the less interesting programmes of what turns out in practice to be a kind of " library drill " : aimless trots through catalogues and reference books by pupils carrying work-cards or slips of typed paper setting them questions to answer which nobody apart from a desperate teacher-librarian would ever think to ask . |
| 6 | Nobody apart from an accredited lobby correspondent is allowed into the lobby room without prior invitation but eventually most members of the Cabinet as well as senior members of the Opposition find it desirable to seek an invitation to meet this group of journalists . |
| 7 | The Stravinsky was a welcome up-beat to the new work and it drew a veil over a performance of the overture which apart from a cracking final Presto was emminently forgettable . |
| 8 | Local legend said that the animal used these to hang itself up from a low-hanging branch of a tree at night . |
| 9 | Many people carry out interviews and write them up from a social point of view . |
| 10 | But always some clerk would gather them up and shower them back from an upper window . |
| 11 | We are still drying them out from a recent visit to the laundry . |
| 12 | And Coleby was as hampered now as he had been in Emor by his lack of imagination : get him away from a straightforward discussion of bricks , mortar and money , and the man was lost ; give him a load of crap about the artistic temperament , and his sense of smell deserted him . |
| 13 | But Scotland also suffered from internal religious differences , and from the effects of the Navigation Acts after 1660 that cut her off from a good deal of overseas trade . |
| 14 | Richard 's voice cut into her thoughts as he took her arm to draw her back from a horse-drawn carriage laden with tourists on a sightseeing trip . |
| 15 | The BBC broadcast him live from a mass meeting in Glasgow . |
| 16 | Claire Samways blasted the ball off Alison Vance , the Portadown keeper , but it fell to Jeanette Turner loitering at the post and she spun on the ball firing it in from an acute angle . |
| 17 | But they help with specifics : targeting , organisations , thinking it through from a fresh perspective . ’ |
| 18 | The shot comes in , a brilliant strike , Palace take the lead , it is , bends it away , goes and takes the salute of the Palace fans and not surprising on the quarter of an hour mark , because Palace have done the pressing and gets the goal , bending it away from a despairing dive to his left of , and Palace stamp their superiority a their authority on the early stages . |
| 19 | Fifty years ago an American airman died averting a disaster , when he crashed his stricken bomber into a field after steering it away from a busy town centre . |
| 20 | Alfie Stewart cleared it off the line , but only into the path of Johnny Jameson who steered it home from an acute angle . |
| 21 | Have you written it totally from a Jewish perspective or are you aiming at a wider cross-section of the population ? |
| 22 | This differentiates it both from a descriptive grammar and from a primer . |
| 23 | At the end of the bed was a small card-table which Changez bought for her as a wedding present ; I 'd carried it back from a local junk shop . |
| 24 | I can cheerfully admit that it made no impact on me apart from an overwhelming urge to be violently sick . |
| 25 | The SEATO and CENTO pacts brought certain Asian states into pro-Western blocs and set them apart from a larger neutralist group . |
| 26 | The children are going to have them at home anyway , so if the teachers deny themselves this extra resource , and deny themselves the experience which the children can bring , I think they 're cutting themselves off from a tremendous source of encouragement and motivation . |