Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Suddenly she rose from the post , some 250 feet from me , and with a dozen or so leisurely beats of her magnificent wings she was angling in to land on my glove and devour her prize !
2 Perhaps she started from the feeling and then found a correspondence for it in the outside world .
3 Furthermore he wrote from the standpoint of one who had failed conspicuously to emulate his own colleagues during his lifetime .
4 He knows that Grampian regional council is bound by statute to say how much it got from the sale ; it can not simply say that it will not tell anyone .
5 Some of Hugo 's drunken friends told him to let the hounds chase her , and so he ran from the house and unlocked the dogs .
6 In doing so he departed from the precedent set by many of the best known formula constructors , including Flesch and Dale .
7 The contrast was stark , an area devoid of anything green , or so it seemed from the air .
8 This Scarlet had done , and now she wondered how she could have : maybe you became more squeamish the further away you grew from the experience of childbirth .
9 The further they got from the rave the more bodies they had to step over .
10 But the further they got from the area , the easier it became .
11 Well my free kick , he actually got a touch on that as well , he tipped it onto the post for the free kick yes , but I mean even when he bounced out to Mickey Lewis , one of their defenders got a great block from about two yards out to send it out for the corner , which luckily we scored from the corner , so that we got away with it then .
12 Eventually we emerged from the defile , and the river widened again .
13 Some three quarters of an hour later she emerged from the bathroom , feeling refreshed and invigorated .
14 Ninety minutes later he returned from the gym downstairs and prepared his special fruit juice while the Ansafone told him , among many other things , to get back to Mike .
15 He slipped off his white coat and a few minutes later he hurried from the centre .
16 Fifteen minutes later he moved from the window , tore up some pages , sat looking at the scraps , and then began to write again .
17 Cautiously she turned from the wall .
18 Now he bowed from the waist .
19 Oh well I meant from the point of view of .
20 Well I went from the pit bottom I went er stake-ganging then .
21 I said then well I said from the time now , I said there is nobody I said , can sleep on those mattresses .
22 Sometimes she thought from the way he seemed to watch her that he might like her too but he had never said anything and Sally was beginning to be afraid he never would .
23 Then she ran from the cloakroom , down the narrow dark passage and out into the night .
24 Then she hurried from the room before they could rise and trickle down her cheeks .
25 Then she tore from the room .
26 Three days earlier he vanished from the luxury home he shared with a girlfriend in Kent .
27 Finally he was sent to an approved school and then he disappeared from the district .
28 Then he strode from the room , passing her chair without even glancing at her , and slamming the door with such force that the chandelier rattled above the table .
29 Then he moved from the centre of the room towards Franca , who moved quickly aside , and sat down on the chair which she had vacated , and leaned his head back against the wall and closed his eyes .
30 Then he appeared from the gate at the far side , and she could see him smiling even at that distance .
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