Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] from [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bills came on the morning of the burial , and he suddenly drew them from his pocket during the service , opening them without knowing what he was doing . |
| 2 | They set out towards the west , taking their direction from the sun , but the density of thorn thickets constantly drove them from their line . |
| 3 | What finally propelled him from his Cabinet seat on 9 January was the promulgation of a new and improvised Cabinet convention by Mrs Thatcher — that all future ministerial statements on the future of Westland would have to be cleared by the Cabinet Office . |
| 4 | Diarrhoea , which I had now had for five days , finally drove me from my bed at six-thirty . |
| 5 | Only the realisation that he would soon be arriving at her door finally roused her from her misery , spurred her into action . |
| 6 | Those words stroked a node of madness within him which somehow detached him from his excruciation so that he flew above it fleetingly before sinking back into molten anguish . |
| 7 | Mathers lit the cigarette and immediately plucked it from his mouth , a busy gesture . |
| 8 | I was amazed by her self-control , and could not understand why Mr Rochester had not asked the police to arrest her , or at least dismissed her from his service . |
| 9 | He drew out a piece of parchment from beneath his cloak and Cranston almost snatched it from his hand . |
| 10 | Recognising the hopelessness of her situation , she had resolved to do what she ought to have done years ago , and systematically banished him from her heart . |
| 11 | The Committee had been appointed to consider the Foreign Office only and , although they heard a considerable amount of evidence about rebuilding the War Department as part of the denigration of Pennethorne , they specifically excluded it from their Report . |
| 12 | She held the package out in front of her , and he quietly removed it from her grasp . |