Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hours of bending and stretching and twisting down on the prom in singlets and shorts while the wind whipped over us from the wintry sea . |
| 2 | The boy walked beside him from the Post Office to Lipton 's , talking about the secret that was safe between them , pursuing him into the shop itself . |
| 3 | But now , a week after Easter , his failure stared at him from the empty pews . |
| 4 | The rising tower of debris blossomed and drifted , starting to fall as the shockwave pulsed at me from the dune . |
| 5 | A dark and lovely young woman smiled at her from the doorstep . |
| 6 | Vehicles started up again and a familiar voice shouted to him from the side of the truck . |
| 7 | As she was telling the shuffling Grimauds that light thickens , and the crow makes wing to the rooky wood , a voice cried above her from the high scaffolding . |
| 8 | He was only jolted out of his misery when he approached the front door leading to his much-maligned flat and , as he struggled to pull his keys out of his right pocket with his left hand , a voice spoke to him from the shadows of the front porch . |
| 9 | Certainly the paradoxical view of ugliness as a special kind of beauty appealed to him from the start . |
| 10 | His golden shadow fell on her from the lamp . |
| 11 | An explosive snort came at him from the centre of the room behind him . |
| 12 | Abolition of the Southern League also robbed players of a useful safety valve , for no transfer fee was payable when a player moved into it from the League . |
| 13 | Agricultural produce flowed into it from the surrounding rural territory , some from estates which seem to have been owned by the temple , the rest in the form of tribute or offerings from the owners of private estates . |
| 14 | Jonathan 's face grinned at her from the telescreens . |
| 15 | In the bathroom , her woebegone face stared at her from the mirror . |