Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] from [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 On three sides of this mound there is a colonnade on a raised platform comprising sixteen evenly spaced square pillars of unhewn stone , each thirty-two feet high , linked together at the top by heavy beams with ropes and chains hanging from them at short intervals .
2 Words flowed from him in effervescent abundance , ranging from lengthy essays , autobiographical fragments and provocative tirades to witty or angry letters to magazines or newspapers .
3 I have given back to the Reich the provinces stolen from us in 1919 .
4 Rock-climbers make sure they have lots of metal implements swinging from them at all times .
5 A log jam at Barashevo , as if this forgotten end of the world was a metropolis of movement and then he looked again at the huddle of prisoners separated from him by two lines of uniformed guards .
6 Therefore rural people have tended to have large surpluses extracted from them through low prices enforced by parastatal marketing boards .
7 The Ahaggar massif was apparently one of the chief watersheds , for enormous wadis radiate from it in all directions .
8 It 's a very distressing erm syndrome for many women and er there 's quite a lot of evidence that it 's hormonally linked and most women suffer from it in one way or another .
9 For example , they have reanalysed studies of mother-child bonding and maternal deprivation ; have criticized conclusions drawn from them about good mother-child relations ; and have extended investigations of these relations to take into account , not just maternal exclusivity and sensitivity , but children 's relationships with other adults and children , and the physical , psychological and social quality of care .
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