Example sentences of "[adv prt] from [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 He must have picked it up from among the sawn logs in store for fuel .
2 " It 's all right , " he conceded as they came out from between the decaying buildings and the green hoardings , " but … " he smiled and looked at Slater , " do n't give up your day job . "
3 In spite of his powerful torch , the darkness seemed to close in on him and he felt a weird , evil presence as if something would spring out from between the silent waggons and overpower him .
4 Wolves may not howl here in the moonlight , as they did in the journal of Jonathan Harker , but I have no difficulty in seeing Slains as he saw Count Dracula 's castle in Bukovina , the tall black windows from which not a glimmer of light came , and the jagged battlements glimpsed when the moon came out from behind the fitful clouds .
5 The earl had sat well back from between the bristling champions , absolving himself from all responsibility here except to keep the peace and harmony of his hall .
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