Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry Pascoe shouted from the far end of the room , and young Jan Lanyon , who sailed with him , put up his firsts and echoed : Aye — just let 'em try ! " |
| 2 | The Masai moved from the great river of the north , freely interpreted as the Nile , says the professor in a note , down towards their present location . |
| 3 | Prick 'd from the lazy finger of a maid ; |
| 4 | Molly toppled from the tall boy 's foot and collapsed on to the floor . |
| 5 | As his principal example ( to which the effacement of the jongleur persona could be added ) he noted the removal of deliberate and witty echoes of the characteristic diction of the Breton lay from the French version of Le Chevalier qui fist parler les cons : the fairy lande disappears in the Anglo-Norman version , the magic don , " gift " , becomes a mundane guerdon , " reward " , and the fées , " fairies " , become desmoisselles . |
| 6 | Shiona gasped from the sheer extravagance of the sensations shooting through her . |
| 7 | Rodomonte emerged from the glowing tunnel into a dimly lit passageway . |
| 8 | Biff roused from the split-brain trance . |
| 9 | Fakrid read from the golden sheet . |
| 10 | It is on a copy of The High History of the Holy Graal translated from the Old French by Sebastian Evans ( London and New York , 1903 ) , one of the first books to be illustrated by Jessie M. King . |
| 11 | Katherine rose from the little table . |
| 12 | Some of the divisions in ELDO and ESRO stemmed from the classical opposition between scientists set on ‘ pure ’ space research , and those who stressed the need to launch telecommunications and meteorological satellites . |
| 13 | Agnes Winkowski turned from the frightened child clinging on to the side of her hand-cart and looked back to watch two men of the law speeding after the woman . |
| 14 | So Clemente and his FA were taken aback when England returned from the Swedish disaster and began pushing for an away fixture at anywhere in Spain that could be called ‘ cool ’ . |
| 15 | The CNAA knew from the first meeting of its sub-committee to discuss courses in education , in July 1965 , that the DES was moving towards a policy of teacher education in some technical colleges , and that the DES thought it reasonable that they should come to the CNAA for validation . |
| 16 | Gena Corea , a co-founder of the National Coalition Against Surrogacy quoted from the American Fertility Society 's ethical report , ’ The primary medical indication for use of a surrogate mother is the inability of a woman to provide with the genetic ( the egg ) or the gestation component ( the uterus ) for childbearing ’ . |
| 17 | Richard Molesworth retired from the regular army in 1864 with the rank of major , and with financial help from his father-in-law rented Tabley Grange in Cheshire . |
| 18 | In April and May of this year , the Junior Minister of Health , in April Tom announced from the shared platform with David , the Tory MP for Havant , but better known as a leading member of the Tory think tank , that regulations had been lifted to allow private capital to have free access to the N H S. |
| 19 | ‘ Graham led from the first lap to the 97th at Monaco , and then ran out of oil . |
| 20 | The charges against Enrile arose from the abortive coup attempt of December 1989 , the most serious military insurrection Aquino to date . |
| 21 | Porto equalised from the subsequent free-kick when Brazilian striker Jose Carlos blasted the ball home . |
| 22 | ‘ The Rosenblooms came from the opposite end of Eastern Europe . |
| 23 | ‘ The most fortunate thing was that we found out he came from a village in Essex and by sheer chance Mr Woods came from the same county and knew the same village which gave them something to talk about . ’ |
| 24 | Seaford , Hastings , Winchelsea and Rye suffered from the old Sussex enemy , the longshore drift that silted up their harbours relentlessly . |
| 25 | Rogers always seemed as unlike a comedy film producer as Kenneth Horne differed from the conventional idea of comedian . |
| 26 | One night the young peasant , his spirit stunned by the violent or luxurious language in which Stephen escaped from the cold silence of intellectual revolt , had called up before Stephen 's mind a strange vision . |
| 27 | Todd & Duncan benefited from the increased demand for cashmere and , backed by the strongest stock service in the industry , quality driven investment and new impetus in product development , made substantial overseas progress which should be maintained in 1993/94 . |
| 28 | But Silver called from the other boat , wanting to know if it was me . |
| 29 | Before Mungo could ask what she meant , Lily emerged from the back door with two glasses on a tray . |
| 30 | In 1951 Burgess and Maclean fled to Moscow ; Aneurin Bevan and Harold Wilson resigned from the Labour government in protest at the imposition of charges within the National Health Service , which they saw as an attack on the principles of the Welfare State . |