Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then a fiercer gust of wind almost blew her from the path and she hung on to bag and box like grim death . |
| 2 | By embracing rather than plundering elements of jazz , soul and funk , Jamiroquai 's debut single on Acid Jazz , ‘ When You Gon na Learn ’ , served as the perfect foretaste to his future work and in the process instantly distanced him from the retro-funk-by-numbers style of his less talented peers . |
| 3 | If motherhood includes them in the community of women , poor parenthood also excludes them from the public culture of their own generation . |
| 4 | Our clothes , living space and total environment all separated us from the outer world . |
| 5 | For example , yellow-orange CL of calcite generally distinguishes it from the darker red-crimson of dolomite , and feldspars are very bright blues , reds or greens compared with subdued violets and browns for quartz grains . |
| 6 | Consider , for instance , the ability of the male praying mantis to continue copulating whilst the female steadily devours him from the head end downwards , or for the head end of a wasp to continue eating even when severed from the abdomen . |
| 7 | If until 1832 the working class seen in a Marxist perspective as a proletariat was emergent and potential , if it had yet fully to identify itself , the Reform Bill of that year finally distinguished it from the rest of society . |