Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [to-vb] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The smell of damp and rot seemed to waft from the doorway as if expelled from putrid lungs . |
| 2 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that it was implicit in the Housing Act 1957 that a local authority must serve a demand for expenses before bringing an action to recover them under section 10(3) ; but that the requirement to serve such a demand before taking action was a mere procedural step which was not part of the cause of action and that , save as expressly provided by section 10(4) for summary proceedings , the period of limitation began to run from the completion of the works ; and that , accordingly , the action was statute-barred ( post , pp. 126FâG , 129E â 130B ) . |
| 3 | Finally , when the walls of Amal 's room began to vibrate from the sounds of the bass from the stereo , she decided to go downstairs to ask her brother and his friends to turn down their music . |
| 4 | James I believed that â Kings were breathing images of God upon earth â and he insisted on lecturing Parliament , so the relationship between King and Parliament steadily deteriorated and much of the political initiative began to pass from the House of Lords to the House of Commons . |
| 5 | However , the document 's final approval had to come from the Pope himself , a task the Pontiff apparently relished . |
| 6 | Fashanu , included in the squad for today 's boxing day clash with Wimbledon 's Selhurst Park landlords , Crystal Palace , last night promised to lead from the front in the club 's fight against relegation . |
| 7 | Only when the baby 's head began to emerge from the womb was a doctor sent for . |
| 8 | And the Russians were here , just as the morning mist began to lift from the chateau grounds . |
| 9 | Even though Churchill was appointed as one of the presidents of the Movement , it was at this point that British leadership began to disappear from the unity movement . |
| 10 | By stereophonic means a situation was created such that each ear heard the same two virtually simultaneous messages but , due to a very small difference in the time of arrival of a given stimulus at the two ears , one message appeared to come from the subject 's left while the other appeared to come from the right . |
| 11 | Their lands , which had been seized by the crown in 1308 , by papal decree should have been transferred in 1312 to the Order of the Hospitallers , but in England this transfer was not carried out for some years , during which the king continued to profit from the estates . |
| 12 | Water came from the taps and sat in an unnerving basin shape : the blue plastic failed to dematerialise from the world where I had been a grateful and temporary guest since the moment five years ago when I had vouchsafed in the sight of the God of men Ido . |
| 13 | In the immediate post-war period down to the mid-1950s there were endless external difficulties as the economy tried to recover from the strains of the war ; balance-of-payments crises of a severe kind in 1949 , 1951 , and 1955 , often accompanied by pressure on sterling , were endemic . |
| 14 | The student needed to hear from the throne of the lecturer something which spoke to his intellectual condition and his religious condition , his mind and his soul , simultaneously . |
| 15 | Lightning seemed to reflect from the windows in his eyes , and to Gilbert it seemed as if Rohmer was possessed of some inner , terrifying power . |
| 16 | Now she thought that if she had to clear the table once more , put the few plates in the dish-washer , put the cereal packet away , brush the crumbs from the table top , she would scream and go on screaming : scream until the plaster started to crack from the walls and the neighbours gathered to stand whispering outside the window and the cat fled in terror . |
| 17 | By stereophonic means a situation was created such that each ear heard the same two virtually simultaneous messages but , due to a very small difference in the time of arrival of a given stimulus at the two ears , one message appeared to come from the subject 's left while the other appeared to come from the right . |
| 18 | A complete split was also threatened when the North branch voted to withdraw from the BSP if it affiliated to the Labour Party ( ibid. 4 August 14 ) . |
| 19 | This had been defeated and the League began to move from the elaboration of policy to agitation . |
| 20 | The thermal tide may also be responsible for dim ultraviolet radiation observed to come from the middle of the night hemisphere . |
| 21 | By mid-1946 , serious alarm was being expressed within the USA about Soviet expansion in Europe ( coupled with the revelations from Canada of a Soviet atomic spy ring ) , and a tougher line began to emerge from the White House on foreign policy issues . |
| 22 | At this Changez started to explode from the centre of his vast stomach . |
| 23 | A lower level of subsidence claims was reported and , apart from the Perth floods which cost the Homeowners account $3m in the first quarter , the account continued to benefit from the absence of severe weather losses . |
| 24 | Without the INKEY(O) command at the end of the program line , print echo would not be turned on until the program attempted to read from the keyboard or the program terminated and BBCBASIC(Z80) returned to the immediate mode . |
| 25 | In Foley v Classique Coaches Ltd [ 1934 ] 2 KB 1 the restraint of trade doctrine was applied to an agreement whereby a purchaser of land agreed to take from the seller all the petrol required for the purchaser 's business carried out on that land . |
| 26 | Sometimes the wheelbarrow was stuck so firmly that the aluminium honeycomb began to rip from the rim as I pushed . |
| 27 | It was the Church , and more specifically the papacy , as Ullmann pointed out , that from the mid-eighth century kept the Roman law alive in the West by its own transmission and absorption of Roman law and Roman law principles of government , and in particular in the imperial idea which the papacy began to foster from the end of that century . |
| 28 | At the sound , the strange atmosphere seemed to rise from the roof garden like a vast bird soaring up into the sky . |
| 29 | October marked the moment at which power began to move from the hands of the mass movement , then at full tide , into the hands of an organization determined to exercise control from above . |
| 30 | The auction house decided to withdraw from the sale when its December 1990 contract with Lord Northampton came up for renewal . |