Example sentences of "[pers pn] [coord] [verb] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To prevent starvation on more plebeian trains , passengers had to take all their food with them or leap from the train the moment it drew into a station and rush for the buffet . |
| 2 | But there would be lights in the chapel , Isabel assured herself , peering ahead for a sign of them and flinching from the feel of the rough stone beneath her palm . |
| 3 | If you allowed for the shape of two paper-backs , between them and jutting from the end was a two-inch pack of what could be paper money . |
| 4 | With one last blinding cry of pain she brushed past him and ran from the room . |
| 5 | Suddenly , he shrugged his strong shoulders , before deliberately turning his back on her and strolling from the room . |
| 6 | If he had turned from her and rushed from the room , banging the door after him , she would not have felt half as afraid as when he backed slowly from her , his arm bent and his forefinger wagging at her . |
| 7 | But her eyes never left his face , and he turned from her and marched from the room . |
| 8 | Her brain burst as the neck-shaft speared through it and exploded from the top of her head . |