Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as she pushed open the west door Miss Danziger was met by the scent of fennel , the six-foot stems of which towered over her from a huge stoneware pot , very different from the musty scent of piety that greeted her in English country churches . |
| 2 | He looked extremely unhealthy ; the anxious eyes of a child peered at her from a white mask . |
| 3 | He , too , suffered from an occasional enlightening vision which came to him from the dim past and which he must have suppressed at the time … |
| 4 | She vaguely heard Matilda 's angry voice , but it came to her from a great distance . |
| 5 | All , like these picture perfect Labradors , going to new owners who believe their dream puppy came to them from a caring environment . |
| 6 | Agricultural produce flowed into it from the surrounding rural territory , some from estates which seem to have been owned by the temple , the rest in the form of tribute or offerings from the owners of private estates . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's more than you 'd dare , Deveraugh , ’ she threw at him from the relative safety of the riverbank , and he laughed softly , the sound of it filling her ears as she sped across the grass . |
| 8 | As to the other , I heard about you from the other side as well , did n't I ? |
| 9 | Beside myself with rage , I crouched , shook my fist under his nose and yelled at him from a few inches ' range . |
| 10 | He grinned at her from a toothless mouth . |
| 11 | His performance was pitiful , five goals flew past him from a bewildering array of angles , and in one pathetic ritual he ended up wrapped round the goal-post , in a knot of utter hopelessness . |
| 12 | He knows full well that we are not related , though he once waved to me from a passing train . |
| 13 | Doyle 's attention was drawn by a youth , wearing suit and bow-tie , who called to him from an empty table . |
| 14 | A voice boomed at her from a small door at the side of the stage . |
| 15 | Hours of bending and stretching and twisting down on the prom in singlets and shorts while the wind whipped over us from the wintry sea . |
| 16 | After we had talked , Philip read to me from an unpublished memoir which he had entitled ‘ The Two Burtons ’ . |
| 17 | Again it was as if something stared through them from the other side . |
| 18 | The first generation might practise some " levelling " — an adaptation and " evening-out " of any highly marked regionalisms in their speech — but would basically stick to the linguistic habits they brought with them from the Caribbean . |
| 19 | But now , a week after Easter , his failure stared at him from the empty pews . |
| 20 | They stopped and looked at him from a little distance . |
| 21 | As she was telling the shuffling Grimauds that light thickens , and the crow makes wing to the rooky wood , a voice cried above her from the high scaffolding . |
| 22 | The Flemyngs would be away , no doubt , ‘ at a banquet in Perth ’ , and they were ; a butler spoke to them from an upper window and asked them would they kindly leave a message so they marked the house with dirt and rotten potatoes while the servants rushed to bar the shutters over the windows . |
| 23 | Stupid though it might appear , she went upstairs and spoke to them from an upper window . |
| 24 | I spoke to her from a great distance . |
| 25 | She smiled at him from the opposite stool . |
| 26 | He smiled almost gently , but there was nothing gentle about the glitter in his dark eyes as they ran over her from the smooth shining coil of her silver-blonde hair to the long slender legs encased in elegant sheer navy stockings . |
| 27 | His eyes ran over her from the wild disorder of her pale hair to the agitated beating of the pulse in her throat and the smooth rounded thrust of her breasts , and he looked at her angrily . |
| 28 | All the time with other people she was acting , confident and charming ; backstage alone , the pain in her eyes glared at her from a bright-lit make-up mirror , weeping at the tawdriness of it all , scorning costume and plot and witty script . |
| 29 | A pink carnation smirked at her from a transparent vase on the table . |