Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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2 Desire was a leaping sheet of flame now , consuming Maria , the erotic furnace their mouths had become only an imitation of an inward eruption of molten passion that seemed to flow outward from the secret heart of her need , enveloping her utterly .
3 Another volley of bullets came flying across from the German lines .
4 They were just starting on it when two larger rabbits came running across from the other side of the near-by cattle-wade .
5 Rebel was racing after another lamb he 'd steered away from the main flock .
6 Fenner Brockway 's conception of the " Workers Front " , limited to " working class parties " , was adopted at the ILP Conference at Easter 1937 , and the ILP began to draw away from the other participants in the Unity Campaign .
7 As the Citron began to climb away from the crowded rice paddies into the red-soiled rubber plantation region , Joseph studied the face of the driver in the rearview mirror , trying to guess his feelings .
8 The ESC , however , threatened to stay away from the Civic in future if they had to make up the lost revenue .
9 He started painting professionally from an early age , and was soon contributing regularly to publications such as Punch , Illustrated London News and the Graphic newspaper .
10 His red Renault 9 , which he bought just the week before , was seen by truck driver Mr Burrige to indicate as it slowed to turn right from a central refuge .
11 Bennett raced away down the right , cut inside and crossed to Ventham who managed to shoot home from a narrow angle .
12 ANGER among Conservative backbenchers was voiced by the former prime minister Edward Heath last night as Tory MPs appeared to back away from a full-scale rebellion over the imposition of VAT on domestic fuel and power in the Budget .
13 Supposing that we did turn away from the cheap arguments , where could we find a better way ?
14 They could not afford another campaign : they had run through the treasure inherited from Edward II so quickly that they could not even pay their Hainault mercenaries , and they had to borrow both from the Florentine banking house of Bardi and from English merchants .
15 The main group of demonstrators had broken away from an authorized rally in a nearby square called by the Revolution Party ( Christian Democratic ) .
16 On July 4 , 1989 , Guy Gennesseaux , leader and founder of the centre-left French Democratic Party ( Parti démocrate français — PDF — which had broken away from the Radical Socialist Party in 1982 when the latter refused to leave the UDF ) , announced that his party was joining the centre-left grouping , Presidential Majority ( majorité présidentielle ) .
17 On July 23 gunmen assassinated in Beirut Walid Khaled , an official of the Fatah Revolutionary Council , which had broken away from the mainstream Fatah in 1973 under the leadership of Sabri Khalil al Banna ( also known as Abu Nidal ) .
18 That is to say , malignant cells that had broken away from the original cancer and begun to reproduce in other parts of the body .
19 Two indistinct figures had broken away from the struggling mass and were desperately flailing towards Christine and the safe area at the other end of the executive transporter .
20 Mahmud had broken away from the main crocodile and was engaged in earnest conversation with the small fat boy .
21 Behind them were Austin Currie , Proinsias Mac Aonghusa and David Green of Citizens for PR in the Irish Republic , and three Westminster Labour MPs , Russell Kerr , Ann Kerr and John Ryan , who had travelled directly from the Labour Party conference with Gerry Fitt .
22 The les fortunate guests had to come daily from the new hotel on Persepolis or even form Shiraz , forty miles away .
23 It was after her mother had come home from a solitary trip to Rome .
24 France had been the major supporter of Euratom ; as the only one of the Six already possessing a nuclear programme , it obviously hoped to benefit most from the joint funding of the Community and to establish a domination of the nascent industry .
25 She had turned away from the food-processing factories and chemical plants spewing bilious yellow smoke to gaze towards the east , to the mouth of the Estuary where the river ran out into the North Sea .
26 No dog , he noticed , but Cara 's son , the silent child who had always made him feel so ill at ease , still sitting by the hearth as if he had grown there from a morose three-year-old into a clean and tidy , almost dandified five .
27 There were new forms of technology coming into existence then , one , we had moved away from the automatic er type of machinery to what they called er digital controlled and numerical controlled machines .
28 The emphasis had shifted radically from the child-centred approach of 1948 to the Seebohm concern for family and community .
29 They had advanced eastwards from the other side of the gate and destroyed the unsuspecting Night Goblin rearguard before blowing the gates with gunpowder .
30 Cranston himself said nothing until they had walked away from the royal enclosure .
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