Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb pp] from [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry walked on , his face like thunder , his fists still clenched , his self-esteem badly bruised from the catcalls and laughter of the village . |
| 2 | And the second stranger slowly approached from the shadows , his pale face looking frightened . |
| 3 | Dynjandi is almost frozen at its sides , the light brilliantly reflected from the rivulets of snow and ice . |
| 4 | She sat or perched on an upright chair smiling like an angel just dropped from the skies . |
| 5 | The first here were from an assart only cut from the woods a few years back , it was a godsend indeed to them . |
| 6 | The second stream speaks of the Lord now delivered from the limitations and particularity of human life to be present to his people at all times and places . |
| 7 | The communication between the trapped men and those on the surface was of the utmost importance ; morale underground benefited from the men being kept informed of the steps being taken to rescue them and , on the surface , the planning of the rescue was helped by knowledge of the conditions underground . |
| 8 | Is chemistry still all test tubes and bad smells , or has this subject too changed from the days when perhaps some of us were at school ? |
| 9 | JTR was not around to see the beginnings of political comment in Scottish art ; his life took a new path far removed from the galleries and drawing rooms of artistic Edinburgh . |
| 10 | He was a member of the councils of the Linnean Society and of the Horticultural Society , whose garden regularly benefited from the resources of the nursery . |
| 11 | This , as he writes about the brevity of human life , he is moved to exclaim , ‘ So I have seen a rose newly sprung from the clefts of its hood , and at first it was fair as the morning and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb 's fleece ’ , and he continues to describe its life until ‘ it bowed the head and broke its stalk and at night having lost some of its leaves , and all its beauty , it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces ’ . |