Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] from [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Showing her ruthlessness , she melodramatically claims : ‘ I would , while it was smiling in my face , Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums , And dashed the brains out . ’ |
| 2 | I think now that they were probably quite generous , but then I took my colour from my proud mother — who retaliated with satire to the implicit condescension she thought she detected . |
| 3 | Well it may well suggest it , I mean I have no no reason to doubt the statement you 've made or even statements made in newspapers , they 've added to my concern from my own investigations . |
| 4 | Doyle , ye 've got mud on my floor from yer dirty boots ! ’ |
| 5 | It burned itself into my brain from his eternal reiteration . |
| 6 | Charlotte Mason regarded teaching as her vocation from her early adolescence . |
| 7 | Whatever the reasons for their change from their nautiloid ancestors , the ammonoids were an enormously successful group : thousands of different species have been described , and their variety is so bewildering that many specialists devote their lives to studying only the ammonoids of a particular , short time period . |
| 8 | and then , they , how they 've got their money from their own blood , not everything up there you know |
| 9 | I want you , I want to make love to you again , ’ he said thickly , tugging her hair from its unruly topknot , so that it spread out on the pillows in a golden cloud , stroking slow , drugging caresses the length of her spread body . |
| 10 | She released her hair from its restraining band ; it tumbled in heavy red-gold waves past her shoulder-blades , and she shampooed it with her favourite herbal shampoo . |
| 11 | She clawed her hair from her hot forehead . |
| 12 | It is rather like feeling that the dark companion of Sirius is somehow less certainly known because we infer its presence from its gravitational effect upon the Dog Star than it would be if we could actually see it — as if gravity were somehow less real than light . |
| 13 | In the latter case , an exact equivalent to grammar in linguistics is unlikely to be found , since , as noted earlier , objects gain their effect from their comparative lack of abstraction and the various bridging functions they can thereby perform . |
| 14 | For she had taken her mind from his marauding hands and , with a low guttural cry , he had succeeded in stripping off her top and flinging it from them into the dark recesses of the room . |
| 15 | The entire novel is written in a series of letters : Celie 's semi-literate ones to God ( the only confidante she can find ) which tell of her ugly sexual experiences as a child and wife , her separation from her beloved sister Nettie and ultimately her triumphant love for her husband 's beautiful lover ; Nettie 's letters to Celie ; and finally Celie 's to Nettie . |
| 16 | There are cases where , from an economic point of view , the marriage valuables represent the purchase of a husband by the bride rather than vice versa , and the general European pattern , which is met with in many other parts of the world , is for the principal payment to be the bride 's " dowry " , a set of assets which she brings with her into the marriage as a part of her inheritance from her own kin . |
| 17 | Right-wing newspapers singled her out for every conceivable hostility , particularly the circumstances of her divorce from her first husband . |
| 18 | Wrenching her gaze from his still face , she stared down into her cup . |
| 19 | Quickly dragging her gaze from his splendid body , Polly stared with intense concentration up at the mainsail , then down at the compass as embarrassment flamed her face . |
| 20 | This story derives its resonance from its specific timeframe . |
| 21 | This ‘ appropriateness ’ of Kahlo 's aesthetic to contemporary debate has tended to remove her work from its historical context , to stress the collective and the cross-cultural . |
| 22 | The selfless pilots of Islam , on their return from their victorious mission , hit and shot down two enemy helicopters in the region . |
| 23 | Its move from its existing site at nearby Seaham , Co Durham , will only bring 25 new jobs , but TWDC 's chief , Alastair Balls , said other firms were showing interest and he was ‘ very optimistic ’ about prospects for further developments . |
| 24 | They certainly helped Mrs Robertson and her team from our own Church , and Guild members who ran the Baking Stall , to create the lovely atmosphere that was noticed by all who visited The Undercroft during the Week . |
| 25 | The stories Mira tells to divert her attention from her personal situation and to exercise her imaginative powers reveal the link between the conventionality of the supposedly transparent discourse of realist fiction and the conventionality of news stories . |
| 26 | Aphrodite 's lie about a non-existent human father , ‘ King Otreus , of Phrygia ’ , is designed to conceal her divinity from her human mate , who is applauded for seeing through the fiction because of something uncanny in his bed-mate 's bearing — sometimes specified as her gait , her way of walking . |
| 27 | Meredith lifted her head from her feline acquaintance , pushed back the curtain of dark brown hair which obscured her vision and looked curiously in the general direction of the voice . |
| 28 | He took her drink from her trembling hand . |
| 29 | We shall then be able to tell a shortfall from a short fall , a blackguard from a black guard , their funnybone from their funny bone , and babies that are stillborn from those still born . |
| 30 | The bill acquired its name from its best-known sponsor , James Brady , a White House press officer who was shot by a handgun and crippled in the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan . |