Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] from [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She leaned on the table — her head jutting forward , wisps of iron-grey hair sticking from beneath the cap which she had not yet changed for a wig — and asked Midnight : ‘ What do y'know of the Captain 's affairs ? |
2 | It is now known as a foetus , this term applying from about the end of the second month . |
3 | A " dirty tricks " department operated from within the White House , hatching schemes to smear possible Democratic opponents . |
4 | According to producer John Deering it will vary from week to week with May reporting live from throughout the province on people , places and products . |
5 | And then another figure appeared from behind the carob . |
6 | He turned and a figure appeared from behind the shed . |
7 | Out here in the open , with the world large around him and light beckoning from beyond the horizon , it was not easy to fit Keelan into whatever lay ahead for him . |
8 | His stepdad got into the van and drove off , gravel spitting from under the wheels . |
9 | The biggest influence on this change came from across the Channel via the writings of the so-called ‘ French school ’ of urban sociology , whose most influential figure was undoubtedly Manuel Castells . |
10 | In this case the driving force for transformational change came from within the organization and was led by the top leadership . |
11 | Then a stomping noise came from behind the kids and I saw some massive black rubber boots coming slowly down the stairs . |
12 | A Roman coin came from under the tower at the restoration of 1855 , but one can not make too much of that . |
13 | Farther south , the Andean civilisation had more similarities with Mesopotamia than with China ; so the idea that its shaping influence came from across the Pacific seems especially far-fetched . |
14 | But now there was a competing outcry sounding from around the bend of the river . |
15 | A better working position results from arranging the seating with light from the window coming from behind the pupils and on to the work surface . |
16 | What now , with the sun bursting from behind the head |
17 | Since so much assistance comes from outwith the area , there is a danger that what is being done may be regarded by them as alien , like Lord Leverhulme 's ill-fated projects . |
18 | Mattress hauled from off the bed , |
19 | A leader arose from among the confusion and panic of those troubled times : Magnus , a noble of Nuln . |
20 | ‘ It will probably clear itself before long , ’ Pet commented from across the kitchen . |
21 | Hanging on the wall ( behind the lemons ) is a lethal-looking old American corn-drying rack Top The farmhouse seen from across the fields Above Graeme and Sam Fifield-Hall |
22 | The sound came from over the garden wall and I knew that no-one in that part of Gigant Street kept chicken . |
23 | The business grew from about the middle of the eighteenth century and became concentrated in and around Kendal , with seven mills grinding snuff ( which is powdered tobacco ) at one time . |
24 | Laying these aside quietly , they then prised up the thin lead sheathing from round the edges of the glass and gouged out the putty holding the pane in place . |
25 | A head rose from behind the counter . |
26 | who had an estate and there were St Trinian 's incidentally er , inciden that 's where the name came from for the books and friend of theirs and relation of his wrote the book I do n't know , something like that , and anyhow eventually I got |
27 | ‘ Down at Atholl , when you went for the new blades , ’ his wife answered from beside the fireplace . |
28 | And in the pursuit he came up to King Yucef , and smote him three times : but the King escaped from under the sword , for the horse of the Cid passed on in his course , and when he turned , the King being on a fleet horse , was far off , so that he might not be overtaken ; and he got into a Castle called Guyera , for so far did the Christians pursue them , smiting and slaying , and giving them no respite , so that hardly fifteen thousand escaped of fifty that they were . |
29 | It also established a 150-member National Assembly elected from among the members of eight directly elected regional councils . |
30 | As soon as he had gained control , Sandys brought about another change in the Virginia Company 's way of running things ; he told the Company 's governor in the colony to have an assembly elected from among the colonists to give him advice and to act as the legislative body to pass any local laws needed inside the colony . |