Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] from [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Once again , we snatched defeat from the jaws of victory , ’ Senator Helms said . |
| 2 | His killing drew condemnation from the leaders of all the main parties , and prompted speculation as to its significance at such a time of crisis on the level of national politics . |
| 3 | It was well received in the horticultural press , but drew fire from the advocates of formal gardening , especially ( Sir ) Reginald Blomfield [ q.v. ] in his The Formal Garden in England ( 1892 ) . |
| 4 | They fanned out as they approached , and the Hearthwares on the catwalk produced bows from the sheaths at their backs and notched them with pale-fletched arrows . |
| 5 | This was observed empirically by Mayhew ( 1977 ) who compared bones from the pellets of three species of owl and two species of diurnal raptor . |
| 6 | Copeland Age Concern , Copeland Care and Repair and West Cumbria Hospice At Home each received £2,500 from the proceeds of the 1991 event , which was held at Seascale . |
| 7 | Concealment for the purpose of getting at the truth received encouragement from the courts in their refusal . |
| 8 | Webb 's Patent Sewer Lamps , which extracted gas from the sewers below the streets and burned it for street lighting . |
| 9 | For example , in what was a most influential study at the time , Robert Sears , Eleanor Maccoby and Harry Levin obtained reports from the mothers of 379 5 year olds on the rearing practices they had adopted at various phases of their children 's lives . |
| 10 | The plaintiff sought damages from the defendants for breach of the implied terms of s14(2) and(3) . |
| 11 | They described themselves as rusyny , a term which merely indicated descent from the inhabitants of the medieval principality of Rus ' . |
| 12 | In spite of all the technological developments land sophistication and speed of modern communication , the point of a campaign roadshow is the same as it was in the days of the whistle-stop tour when politicians addressed voters from the backs of trains : to communicate with the maximum number of people in the short time available . |
| 13 | between Catholics and Protestants , did much damage to people and to places in the Pyrenean region , Pau included , and Jeanne d'Albret 's army commander , Montgomery , who recaptured Pau from the troops of King Charles IX , achieved an especially nasty reputation for the reprisals and pillagings he carried out . |
| 14 | The Chemistry courses in Edinburgh reflect the breadth of the subject and over the four years the topics covered range from the molecules of nature found in biological systems through a wide range of organic , inorganic and physical chemistry to fundamental properties of atoms and molecules . |
| 15 | I rang Duncan from the phones on the wall in the hospital entrance as time was running out . |
| 16 | The verses prompted questions from the children about pregnancy and childbirth . |
| 17 | The nine-member delegation included representatives from the ministries of Foreign Affairs , Finance , and Trade and Industry . |
| 18 | The two policemen took statements from the servants about the last known moments of the occupants of the manor , and from Seb , Tom and Carrie , who described what they had seen as they approached the manor house the previous night . |
| 19 | In Morris the accused took goods from the shelves of a self-service supermarket . |
| 20 | The famous China convoys brought supplies from the storehouses of Burma to Kunming , the centre of Chinese resistance to the Japanese invaders . |
| 21 | I had a close look at the table last night — what really — ehh — scares me is Scum 's away form — in fact they are better away than at Old Scumford — even so they are just as good away as we are at HQ … yes they are vulnerable — but as they got points from the games vs us , Newcastle , Blacburn and Scousers recently i ca n't see what ( who ) is gon na crack them ? |
| 22 | Mr Hughes answered questions from the children on a wide range of European subjects including the Berlin Wall and the EC mark of quality on toys . |
| 23 | Whereas rejection of Soviet dominance had been seen as an element in the poor support for communists and ex-communists elsewhere , the Economist of June 16 suggested that Bulgarians were comparatively well disposed to Russians , regarding them historically as " Slav brothers who freed Bulgaria from the Turks in 1878 " . |
| 24 | Several animals of various sizes were roasting entire on slow-spinning spits , basted by anxious boys , whilst a stream of young people ferried foodstuffs from the pantries to the Great Hall above until the trestles set up there creaked under their load . |
| 25 | Harvey thrust him aside and , with a gallantry which began even to him to appear to be excessively foolish , given the time and place , dragged Amaranth from the clutches of the mob . |
| 26 | It 's remarkable how similar an owl hooting can sound to a homicidal , horny-clawed , hairy , fanged demon from the bowels of hell about to rip through the canvas and tear your throat out with a gurgling , raspy cackle . |