Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later I turned a page and uttered a gasp of stunned surprise that made Edward look up from the manuscript he scrutinized . |
| 2 | He advised Eden to stay away from the House of Commons and to make some non-political speeches in the country on subjects such as ‘ England ’ . |
| 3 | But this caused Aboyeur to veer away from the rails and collide with Craganour , carrying him out towards the centre of the course and interfering with the finishing runs of Nimbus — who had been far enough back at Tattenham Corner for his jockey to have seen the suffragette incident — and Great Sport , both coming up the stands side . |
| 4 | One of them , a tall Hung Mao sat apart from the rest , looked up as the three men approached , then , with the vaguest movement of his head to indicate that they should go on up , looked back down at the rifle in his lap , continuing his meticulous inspection of the weapon . |
| 5 | Failure to lift the ban prompted Iceland to withdraw formally from the Commission [ see ED 59/60 ] , and Norway to announce a unilateral resumption of commercial hunting . |
| 6 | As he did so , he saw Hasan walk out from the back kitchen . |
| 7 | And she saw Adam start up from the Starr grass . |
| 8 | The 1990s saw Japan take over from the US as the world 's dominant power . |
| 9 | I explained rapidly about the pillbox and sure enough we saw Cawthorne set out from the farmhouse , walking diagonally across the Paddock towards the fence . |
| 10 | Did Tolkien go on from the exploitation of occasional scenes to the manipulation of plot , the creation of recognisably symbolic characters , the thing the TLS reviewer asked for so plaintively , ‘ a clear message for the modern world ’ ? |
| 11 | What else did George say apart from the fact will he come and see the paintings do you think ? |
| 12 | In 1674 , the pressure exerted in parliament by Protestant MPs forced Charles to withdraw prematurely from the war against the Dutch . |